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> Fukushima - meltdown, too-small containment vessel, large disaster. Probably overselling the "large" there... at least on the scale of global power productio
by concordDance 1y ago
> Fukushima - meltdown, too-small containment vessel, large disaster.
Probably overselling the "large" there... at least on the scale of global power production.
- lostlogin 1y agoYou wouldn’t call Fukushima a large disaster? The financial cost is at $180 billion US. That seems large.
- jenadine 1y agoAccording to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan , Japan had about 300 TWh of nuclear for a year at the time of the accident. So $180 billion amount to $0.6/kWh over a year if I'm not mistaken. Not cheap. But if you spread over a few decades then that's reasonable.
- lostlogin 1y ago> $0.6/kWh I must be messing something up, as that’s about 3-4x what I pay for electricity and seems a lot?
- concordDance 1y agoSadly I don't have time to go into it now, but they're massively overpaying due to miscallibrated risk tolerance. (Paying tens of millions per QALY is not a good use of money, 1 milliSv per year is an utterly insane goal) The actual disaster had noticably bad short term effects on only a small area and long term effects on a tiny area.
- natmaka 1y agoNobody knows for sure, but the sole nuclear accident cleanup operations may cost $470 to $660 billion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident_cleanup#Costs_of_the_cleanup_operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident_cle...