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by mikeyouse 1556 days ago
Also the Japanese government is projecting a total of somewhere between $200 billion and $600 billion to clean up the mess left behind -- amortizing that on the $/MWh produced by the power plant would probably lead to slightly more expensive power...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/clearing-the-radi...

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The proper way to make the accounting is to sum the cleanup for Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, and then divide by the 120-180 operating nuclear plants and further divide by the 25-35 years of continuous operation:

           ∑ accidents
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   ∑ fleet  x  years operated