[ RadSafe ] After Five Years, What Is The Cost Of Fukushima?

[Sander Perle]

Joe,

One more point. If you agree that current units should be allowed to operate until their operating life is over, then you ignore your very premise that these units are too vulnerable from 8.0 to 9.0 earthquakes. If you truly believe that there is a significant probability for other disasters, then your proposal should be to shut them down now. I don't agree. 

Consider that while there have been many other earthquakes over the years, Fukushima remains not the norm.

Regards,

Sandy
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> On Mar 10, 2016, at 19:31, Joseph Preisig <jrpnj01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Radsafe,
> 
>     Japan is vulnerable to magnitude 8.0 to 9.0 earthquakes, and possible
> tsunamis.  Such earthquakes will happen again
> and again.  No nuclear power plants should be built on Japan's Ocean
> shores.  Nuclear plants currently on Japan's ocean
> shorelines should be allowed to live out their operating life and then
> should be closed.  This should also be the case for other countries
> with exposure to large/great earthquakes and tsunamis.
> 
>     Joe Preisig
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:17 PM, parthasarathy k s <ksparth at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
>> Thank you Dan. The Forbes article provided at one place important details
>> on the cost of the Fukushima accident
>> Warm regardsParthasarathy
>> 
>>    On Thursday, 10 March 2016, 23:42, Dan McCarn <hotgreenchile at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> This is from my friend, Jim Conca.
>> 
>> *After Five Years, What Is The Cost Of Fukushima?*
>> 
>> The direct costs of the Fukushima disaster will be about $15 billion in
>> clean-up over the next 20 years and over $60 billion in refugee
>> compensation. Replacing Japan’s 300 billion kWhs from nuclear each year
>> with fossil fuels has costJapan over $200 billion, mostly from fuel costs
>> for natural gas, fuel oil and coal. This cost will at least double, and
>> that only if the nuclear fleet is mostly restarted by 2020. Since 2011,
>> Japan’s trade deficit has become the worst in its history, and Japan is now
>> the second largest net importer of fossil fuel in the world, right behind
>> China. Strangely, the costs that never materialized were the most feared,
>> those of radiation-induced cancer and death.
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/03/10/after-five-years-what-is-the-cost-of-fukushima/#3a7a79346016
>> 
>> Dan ii
>> 
>> Dan W McCarn, Geologist
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