[en] A great deal of attention is currently being directed to issues surrounding the decommissioning of nuclear generation plants. Chief among these is determining the best way to recover the associated costs. The cost-recovery procedure should be tied to three things: (1) the nature of the business risks created by nuclear power, (2) who bears those risks now, and (3) who has historically been compensated for bearing those risks in the past. Further, and important analogy can be made to past experience with utilities' diversification into other areas of business. It is important for regulators to balance the costs to the customer against the compensation that investors have already received for bearing the risk of nuclear power. Each case will be different, but it is neither fair nor wise to force all costs on customers