| Huge social cost Component1 #350394 • No direct public fatality by the accident,
• But, unquanKfiable damage to people’s daily lives
– Radioactive contamination (soil, sea, food chains...)
– Evacuation (still >80,000 people cannot come back home)
• Huge cost for
– Decontamination of the environment (20 – 300 Billion USD), and
– Decommissioning of the Fukushim Daiichi site (>20 Billion USD) |
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