Ok adding as another comment. The situation is actually more complicated than that see [1]. Essentially it comes to book keeping, however after 2017 the operat

Ok adding as another comment. The situation is actually more complicated than that see [1]. Essentially it comes to book keeping, however after 2017 the operators had to pay into a government fund to ensure sufficient funds to decommissioning (currently this holds 24 billion euro). Estimated decommissioning cost for a nuclear power plant are 1.2 billion euro (there is some dispute about the numbers though). This number does not include wast storage. [1] https://www.iwr-institut.de/de/presse/presseinfos-kernenergie/201-akw-abriss-von-rueckstellungen-gedeckt-milliardenrisiken-drohen https://www.iwr-institut.de/de/presse/presseinfos-kernenergi... (sorry only in German)