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Re:Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants by fsh on Monday October 17, 2022 @05:29PM (#33239756)
The Fukushima disaster cleanup cost a trillion dollars. Over a hundred thousand people were (at least temporarily) displaced. I would call this a pretty darn big failure.
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Re:Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants by Schroedingersat on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @01:22AM (#33243255)
The trillion dollar figure is a bit of a stretch and includes a lot of stuff that didn't need to happen or was double counted.

Less motivated reasoning gives about $300bn which would still be enough to easily replace every coal and oil plant in the country with renewables (as well as half of the gas).

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