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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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Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @10:13PM
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
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?