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Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon by akamaka on Monday October 14, 2019 @07:43AM (#21247218)
It’s not a simple calculation when people in Japan are still debating what the final cost of the Fukushima disaster will eventually add up to.

To do a simple calculation, you need to know the real costs of things, and right now those are unbounded.

“Think tank puts cost to address nuke disaster up to 81 trillion yen”

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201903100044.html

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Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon by ovi256 on Monday October 14, 2019 @08:19AM (#21247446)
His point is that coal costs are just as high, if not higher, but we prefer not to think about them that way because it makes us uncomfortable. Just have your pick of examples of this thinking among the comments containing "uncomfortable".
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Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon by reacweb on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:25AM (#21247948)
I think the $2.4 trillion of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War is more trustworthy.
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