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Swelling Decommissioning Costs, Who’s Gonna Pay

The 2016 road report points to inflated decommissioning costs.
Three reactor meltdowns to be decommissioned, an unprecedented task in the world.
It’s a long journey, to continue to record the series “The road to decommissioning”.

Five years and half years have passed since the disaster at the Tepco’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, among the many technical difficulties, the removal of nuclear fuel remains a challenge.

As the disaster costs keep on rising more than expected, it is becoming extremely difficult to to finance them under the current system.

Not just the increase in labor costs and technology development costs, and the cost of decontamination to enable the residents return, but also the compensation costs, all are significant. Therefore the current « system » to finance those costs has hit a wall.

TEPCO recently complained of the severity of the burden, it seeked from the country a policy to provide additional support. Who is to pay.

God only knows how much those costs will swell, and whose burden will they be.
The overall picture of the disaster costs is already hard to visualize, the sustainable “road to decommissioning” even more.

November 7, 2016 - Posted by dunrenard | Fukushima 2016 | Decommissioning Costs, Decontamination Costs, Fukushima continuing, Fukushima Daiichi, Resident Compensations