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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The German government has agreed to pay four nuclear operators nearly 2.6 billion euros ($3.1 billion) in compensation for forcing them to shut their nuclear plants early in response to the Fukushima disaster, ministries said on Friday.
FILE PHOTO: The remains of a cooling tower at RWE's Muelheim-Kaerlich nuclear power plant are pictured in Muelheim-Kaerlich, Germany, August 9, 2019. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily reported on Thursday that a sum of 2.4 billion euros will be made available from the general budget, citing government sources.
This excluded an additional sum of 181 million euros for Swedish state-owned Vattenfall specified by the environment, finance and economy ministries on Friday.