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by fsh 1334 days ago
The Fukushima disaster cleanup cost a trillion dollars. Over a hundred thousand people were (at least temporarily) displaced. I would call this a pretty darn big failure.
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The trillion dollar figure is a bit of a stretch and includes a lot of stuff that didn't need to happen or was double counted.

Less motivated reasoning gives about $300bn which would still be enough to easily replace every coal and oil plant in the country with renewables (as well as half of the gas).