<p>Official statements on the costs of the Fukushima nuclear disaster don’t capture all the costs. When a full accounting is done, the total cost will be closer to a trillion USD than not. That’s $2 billion USD for each of the roughly 500 nuclear reactors operating on Earth today. This is a podcast version of the <a href="https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/fukushimas-final-price-tag-will-be-2-billion-per-reactor-on-earth-9305b59bfc1f">article of the same name</a> in the TFIE Medium publication.</p>

TFIE047 CT018: Economics, not fear of radiation, is killing nuclear energy

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