The head of Spain’s nuclear industry group Foro Nuclear has renewed his call for federal government to reduce the “suffocating” fiscal pressure on the country’s fleet of seven commercial nuclear power reactors.<br>
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Ignacio Araluce said in <a href="https://www.foronuclear.org/en/resources/publications/nuclear-results-in-2020-and-future-perspectives/" target=" blank">Foro Nuclear’s annual report for 2020</a> that solutions are needed to reduce the excessive tax burden on the fleet, which generated 22.18% of the country’s electricity last year, making nuclear the primary source of production.<br>
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Mr Araluce said <a href="https://www.nucnet.org/news/head-of-spanish-industry-group-says-funding-is-more-complicated-2-4-2021" target=" blank">earlier this year</a> that commercial nuclear power is being penalised with access to funding sources more complicated than for other clean en