EDF defends nuclear decommissioning cost estimate

French power company EDF on Wednesday defended its cost estimate of 22.2 billion euros ($24 billion) for dismantling nuclear power stations, rejecting a parliamentary committee report which said the costs may be higher. The parliamentary report, commissioned by a body looking into renewable energy, said that dismantling the sites could take longer than EDF had envisaged. "The optimistic scenarios upon which EDF has based its provisions, as well as a certain number of major costs which have been