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How Much Spent for Fukushima Daiichi Accident
Since the start of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, the Japanese Government and the very utility TEPCO have spent about 8.5 trillion yen or $85 billion for fixing the accident up to date, though it is not yet contained fully.
The breakdown of the costs is as follow:
1. Decontamination Work......$35 billion
2. Damages and Compensation.....$35 billion
3. Restoration from the Accident.....$15 billion
Total................................................$85 billion
According to the Japanese Government, a nuclear power generation plant can generate electricity at cheaper costs than in a thermal power plant using fossil fuels. To produce electricity of 1 kilo watts per hour, a coal thermal power plant needs costs of 9.5 yen while a nuclear power plant 8.9 yen. So, the Government and the nuclear industry has been strongly promoting expansion of use of nuclear energy despite the Fukushima Daiichi accident.
The Government has also estimated that the total costs to run a nuclear power plant, including those for reactor decommissioning, damages, and decontamination work, would be $58 billion.
However, the actual costs accumulated in these three years since March 2011 are already $85 billion, as above indicated. It has exceeded the Government's estimation.
What is worse, the issue of responsibility is still unclear. Who should take primary responsibility when a large-scale nuclear accident occurs in a nuclear power plant? To our surprise, this issue is not yet clearly addressed in Japan. Indeed, nobody in the Government and TEPCO has been indicted for responsibility for failure in preventing the Fukushima Daiichi accident, though criminal investigations were conducted on some politicians and TEPCO executives.
No matter how much Japanese economy is large and Japan has advanced technology, Japan cannot bear suffering another nuclear accident. It must abandon all of 50 nuclear reactors.
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