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posted by janrinok on Friday December 09 2016, @05:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the dirty-money dept.

Tepco is being loaned more interest-free money to cleanup after the Fukushima disaster:

Japan will increase an interest-free loan to the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power (9501.T), by more than a third to 14 trillion yen ($123 billion), a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The increase in the loan from 9 trillion yen is to cover the costs for compensation and decontamination areas around the plant, according to the source.

[...] The disaster is likely to cost 22.6 trillion yen ($199 billion), more than double an earlier government estimate.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @08:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @08:55PM (#439397)

    Now, try expanding your horizons.

    Japan is located on what is called The Ring of Fire. [google.com]
    Even the monkeys there [google.com] have figured out geothermal energy.

    They are also located on an ocean which has currents and tides whose energy can be harvested.

    You apparently think that a place that has lots of mountains and mountain passes [google.com] doesn't have wind with energy that can be harvested.

    You also failed to mention that the sunny days come (not coincidentally) when the electricity demand is greatest.

    Man, straight-line single-solution "thinkers" are so boring.

    ...and, after showing itself to be a $200B liability (which the citizens will end up paying for--after the irresponsible corporation pocketed decades of profits), you still defend this dangerous energy source which is replaceable with methods that are benign.

    In addition, you conveniently failed to mention the tons and tons of nuclear waste that is STILL sitting around the power plants (because in the 7 decades that nukes have existed, no one has yet figured out what to do with that).

    ...but do go ahead and continue to beat the drum for dirty/dangerous energy.
    It provides us someone with bad ideas to scoff at.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @10:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @10:13PM (#439428)

    errr ... i don't get your reply.
    it wasn't meant as bashing solar. rather the opposite.

    the "useless" billions of dollars given away as 1.5 k dollars to EACH person for a PV system would
    be more productive. that was the point.

    clean-up or not, there's no method to reduce the half-life but only time.
    so maybe just run with it (except it and wait) and rather pour the billlions into something that replaces the
    missing generator?
    there's the real danger that some of the billions for the "clean-up" will end up "cleaning up" the fear of nuclear
    and help to restart idling nukes ... as in: will be used for propaganda to restart nukes.

    i didn't mention the other renewables because not everybody can use the 1.5k dollars to finance geothermal
      or wind or hydro because of lack of access to these sources, but everybody should have access to a 4 square meter sun-lit
    area (we assume there's at least a roof not to mention some garden) which is how much space two 300 watt panels require.
    solar is everyone can do.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @10:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @10:26PM (#439436)

      a-so i also forgot to mention:
      that four 1 GW capacity reactors running 24 hours per day would generate 4 GW x 24h = 96 GWh per day.
      that is less then ~158GWh/day that one-hundred-plus-plus million 0.5 kw PV systems would generate.

      now i don't know if building four 1 GW nuclear reactors would cost $123 billion but if we assume that they all could
      blow up then the answer is probably not: building + clean-up > 123 billion.

      so the money is available and would produce more energy but is rather spent on "cleaning-up", a misnomer by all means?