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"Decommissioning the reactors will cost 8 trillion yen ($72 billion), according to an estimate in December from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Rem

• curtis 9y ago
  This would be a problem if decommissioning costs for every nuclear reactor were 24 billion dollars (three reactors melted-down at Fukushima). However, decommissioning a reactor is a lot cheaper if it's done normally at the end of the reactor's operational lifetime, rather than done earlier after a melt down, which is a really extraordinary circumstance. And remember that the Fukushima circumstances were pretty extraordinary indeed -- the reactor meltdowns were the consequence of a thousand year tsunami which directly killed nearly 20,000 people.