Juillet 2017 / THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

Japan : Cost of building nuclear fuel reprocessing plant up 4-fold

July 4, 2017 at 18:10 JST

Construction costs for the long-delayed spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, are likely to rise to 2.9 trillion yen ($25.67 billion), about four times the initial estimate, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) has disclosed.

The company attributes the latest cost estimate increase of 750 billion yen, revealed July 3, to the necessity of meeting more stringent safety standards introduced after the 2011 nuclear crisis in (...)

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