The cost of cleaning up the UK’s ageing nuclear facilities, including some described as “dangerous”, looks set to rise above £73bn, the BBC has learned.
A senior official at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority said the bill would rise by billions of pounds.
Nineteen sites across the country, some dating from the 1950s, are due to be dismantled in the coming decades.
A spokesman for the Department for Business said it was ready for an adjustment in the clean-up costs.
In January, the National Audit Office said that the cost of decommissioning ageing power sites had risen from £12bn to £73bn.
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