Government Subsidies for Nuclear Energy in Germany and the United States

I wanted to check out how much of the taxpayers' money are being wasted for nuclear energy.
From the following two tables, I can say the German government paid at least 5.6 cents and the U.S. government paid 0.78~12.01 cents per every kilowatt-hour of nuclear-powered electricity in 2010.
* In Germany, the residential retail electricity price in 2010 was 18.31 U.S. ¢/kWh (or 0.1381 €/kWh).
* In the United States, the residential retail electricity price in 2010 was 11.58 U.S. ¢/kWh .

1. German State Aid for Nuclear Energy 1950-2010

All specifications in billions of €		Funding 1950-2010		2010 Funding	Funding as of 2011 (accumulated)
		Nominal	Real (2010 prices)
A	Financial aid	51.1	> 82.4	> 1.3	> 8.9
1	Research (Germany)	28.7	55.2	0.59	> 1.8
2	Federal state contributions	5.0	5.3	n/a	n/a
3	Guaranteed loans	0.14	> 0.14	n/a	0.05
4	German share of Euratom (European Atomic Energy Community) and PHARE (improving the operational safety of nuclear power plants and the training of their operators)	2.3	2.9	0.11	0.11
5	Closure of East German nuclear power	3.0	> 3.1	0.11	0.86
6	Decontamination of Wismut's uranium mines	5.4	6.5	0.15	1.02
7	Morsleben (repository for radioactive waste)	0.8	0.9	0.05	1.34
8	Asse (deep geological repository for radioactive waste)	0.5	0.5	0.08	3.7
9	Repository site search	0	0	0	0
10	Chernobyl	0.4	0.5	0.01	> 0.02
11	Contributions from international organisations	4.9	7.3	0.18	n/a
B	Tax benefits	92.1	> 112.5	3.3	66.4
1	Accruals	54.2	68.3	1.8	54.0
2	Net energy tax benefits	37.8	44.2	1.6	12.4
C	Budget independent state provisions	37.5	> 44.4	2.7	35.0
1	Increase in price of electricity through emissions trading	8.4	8.7	1.3	24.6
2	Incomplete competition in the electricity market	29.0	35.7	1.3	10.4
A + B	Sum 1: Budgetary funding	143.2	> 194.9	> 4.6	> 75.3
	Average in Euro cents per kWh	3.0	> 4.1	> 3.2	> 7.3
	Average in U.S. cents per kWh	4.0	> 5.4	> 4.2	> 9.7
A + B + C1	Sum 2: Budgetary funding + emissions trading benefits	151.6	> 203.7	> 5.9	> 99.9
	Average in cents per kWh	3.2	> 4.3	> 4.2	> 9.8
	Average in U.S. cents per kWh	4.2	> 5.7	> 5.6	> 13.0

Annual exchange rate: 1 € = 1.3261 U.S. $ in 2010 (Source: FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) at http://j.mp/USD_per_Euro)

2. U.S. Subsidies to Existing and New Reactors

Subsidy Type	Subsidies to Existing Reactors (¢/kWh)			Subsidies to New Reactors (¢/kWh)
	Legacy	Ongoing
	All Ownership Types	IOU	POU	IOU	POU
Factors of production Capital Reactor loan guarantees or direct loans Accelerated depreciation Recovery of construction/work-in-progress Government research and development Tax-exempt public reactors; no required rate of return Subsidized site approval and licensing costs Transfer of stranded asset liabilities Traditional rate regulation (return on “prudently incurred” investments even if not used or economically competitive) Regulatory-delay insurance Labor (shifting of health-related liabilities to taxpayers) Land (reduced property tax burdens for new plants at state or county level)	7.20	0.06	0.96-1.94	3.51-6.58	3.73-5.22
Intermediate inputs Uranium Subsidized access, bonding on public lands Percentage depletion on uranium extraction Legacy costs of uranium mining, milling sites (contamination costs staying with taxpayers) Federal uranium-stockpile management Enrichment services Below-market sales from government-owned facilities (prior to privatization in the United States) Tariffs on imported enriched uranium Federal liability indemnification for U.S. Enrichment Corporation; ambiguous requirements under Price-Anderson for newer private enrichment provider Monopoly agent for selling LEU derived from Russian HEU in warheads Environmental remediation costs Cooling water (free or subsidized use of large quantities of cooling water)	0.10-0.24	0.29-0.51	0.16-0.18	0.21-0.42	0.21-0.42
Output-linked support Market-price support (purchase mandates) Payments based on current output (nuclear production tax credit)	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.05-1.45	0.00
Security and risk management Cap on accident liability: reactors, contractors, fuel-cycle facilities, shippers ("Price-Anderson" cap) Nuclear Regulatory Commission services not paid by user fees U.S. funding of proliferation oversight abroad by the IAEA Plant security/low design-basis requirements for attacks	0.21-0.22	0.10-2.50	0.10-2.50	0.10-2.50	0.10-2.50
Decommissioning and waste management Tax breaks for reactor decommissioning Nationalization of nuclear waste management	n/a	0.29-1.09	0.31-1.15	0.13-0.48	0.16-0.54
Total (in 2007 U.S. cents)	7.50-7.66	0.74-4.16	1.53-5.77	5.01-11.42	4.20-8.68
Total (in 2010 U.S. cents)	7.89-8.06	0.78-4.37	1.61-6.07	5.27-12.01	4.42-9.13
Share of power price	139%-142%	13%-70%	26%-98%	84%-190% (high)	70%-145% (high)
				88%-200% (reference)	74%-152% (reference)

Consumer Price Index (CPI) change between 2007 and 2010: 105.2% (=218.056/207.342) (Source: BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) at http://j.mp/US_CPI)


Sources:
Eurostat. (2011). Energy Statistics - Prices. Retrieved from http://j.mp/EU_Residential_Electricity_Price
Energy Information Administration. (2011). Electric Power Monthly. (January 2011). Retrieved from http://j.mp/US_Residential_Electricity_Price
Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft (Green Budget Germany). (2010). Staatliche Förderungen der Atomenergie. Hamburg, Germany: Greenpeace. [Full-text at http://j.mp/German_Atomic_Subsidies]
Koplow, D. (2011). Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable Without Subsidies. Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists. [Full-text at http://j.mp/US_Atomic_Subsidies]