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Fukushima Decontamination Cost Estimated $50bn, With Questionable Effectiveness
AmiMoJo writes "Experts from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology studied the cost of decontamination for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, estimating it at $50 billion. They estimate that decontamination in no-entry zones will cost up to 20 billion dollars, and in other areas, 31 billion dollars. It includes the cost of removing, transporting and storing radioactive waste such as contaminated soil. The central government has so far allocated about 11 billion dollars and the project is already substantially behind schedule. Meanwhile the effectiveness of the decontamination is being questioned. NHK compared data from before and after decontamination at 43 districts in 21 municipalities across Fukushima Prefecture. In 33 of the districts, or 77 percent of the total, radiation levels were still higher than the government-set standard of one millisievert per year. In areas near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where decontamination has been carried out on an experimental basis, radiation levels remain 10 to 60 times higher than the official limit."
Actually it's practical and would almost fall into the common sense category.
Japan experienced an atrocity when a nuclear bomb was detonated. Many suffered instant lost at the vaporization point.
Many others survived in agonizing pain due to the effects of radiation poisoning, killing them in days to weeks.
Some survived years and still suffered, and died because of radiation poisoning.
People to this day still experience some ill effects and birth defects due to that event. If I was a leader of my people and saw
the suffering this technology had brought them in the past, I'd want to keep it as far away from them as possible as to not make them
suffer similar ordeals again.
The dumb, insensitive, and offensiveness is the fact that nuclear reactors were built in japan anyway, and now their people are suffering from radiation yet again.