Repairing shoddy nuclear waste storage site to cost Japan ¥36 bil

I think Japan has proved beyond doubt that it is not capable of having nuclear energy.

Some more well-connected companies to benefit here though.

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency estimates that it will cost taxpayers 36.1 billion yen to rectify the shoddy storage of radioactive waste in a storage pool at the Tokai Reprocessing Plant, the nation's first facility for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, an official said Sunday.

There is a whole lot of shady going on. The Japanese taxpayers are the mark and the one party LDP and their associates (some even shadier than them) they are always on the hook to pay for another money pit.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/how-yakuza-and-japans-nuclear-industry-learned-love-each-other/327691/

"Shoddy?" But this is Japan, "shoddy" is hardly ever used to describe the dedicated workmanship that Japanese take so much pride in! (sarcasm there folks)

There is plenty of shoddy work done here, and it seems that most of it is done with tax payers money!

How many future future generations in Japan will have to suffer the dangerous legacy created by their forefathers?

I recommend a new 'Environment Tax', where everyone pays a monthly tax of around 20,000 Yen, and we distribute it to Tepco, via Dentsu. That ought to do it!

How on earth can things at a Nuclear waist storage facility get to the point of “Shoddy” Total failure of management and oversight by authorities. Not a great endorsement for Japans “safe” Nuclear industry.

If the fuel is waste from private company operations, why are taxpayers footing this bill?

Force TEPCO to sell their assets to foot the bill. It's their fault.

What has it to do with TEPCO?

The decommissioning of nuclear plants is supposed to be paid for by the owners.

If we ignore all these waste issues nuclear is safe and clean

It cost more than any possible savings.

such as nuclear industry or arms race policy, main theme of present LDP regime is "how exploit huge money from taxpayers".

Socialize the cost privatize the profit.

Seems it's a govt facility

And it's not in operation

The country has no long-term nuclear waste storage which will greatly increase over the next 50 years with Fukushima and the decommissioning of 20 reactors.

If the choice is between nuclear and oil I'm for oil

What has it to do with TEPCO?

Japan Atomic Power Company is majority owned by TEPCO.

Where are the 9 tons of plutonium kept?

I think the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and the Japan Atomic Power Company are different organisations.

The major shareholders of the Japan Atomic Power Company are

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (28.23%),

Kansai Electric Power (18.54%),

Chubu Electric Power (15.12%),

Hokuriku Electric Power Company (13.05%),

Tohoku Electric Power (6.12%),

and Electric Power Development Company (J-Power) (5.37%).

Nuclear waste is for life, not for Christmas. The protection, monitoring and regular repackaging of waste is going to have to take place for hundreds of years. And it won't get cheaper.

10,000 years.

Who says nuclear energy is cheap? The answer can only be that companies pocket the profits while tax-payers pick up the tab for the losses. A business model to die for!

Correction:

Japanese taxpayers will pay 36 Billion yen more to clean up the mess left by incompetent, unfit for purpose LDP-donating monopolies.

There can be few phrases with more latent hair raising implications than "shoddy nuclear waste storage site". One more chip off my prejudice that Japan is an extraordinarily competent country...

Nuclear power is too risky and costly for Japan.

kurisupisuToday  07:47 am JST

How many future future generations in Japan will have to suffer the dangerous legacy created by their forefathers?

That kurisupisu is the 2 trillion Yen question !

The comments on this forum today speaks volumes ( well said EVERYONE )....Im so happy to see that most people realize that Nuclear energy is far from cheap, and far from clean......in the long run.

Sounds more like another crazy business idea to draw profits out of the fearful public. Normally you wouldn’t and shouldn’t touch that ‘working system’ at all and maybe only seal or shield the place at reasonable costs. But no, this plan is the weird contrary, leaving a radiating place anyway, and intentionally contaminating another new one and on the way to it also contaminating the equipment, the transportation routes, the involved workers and transportation vehicles and the involved ships , cranes and places on and under sea. Quite some anti-Einsteins at work for no urgent reasons, but probably generously filling their bank accounts. I can already make a surebet, that some international eco groups and sea safers will complain and demand Japan of taking its nuclear waste back and then the next business plan is rolled out to re-extract it from the sea and bringing it back to the original place. And another bunch of people gets rich , again spreading radiation everywhere on the routes.

Remember, this was the same plant in which criticality was almost reached in 1999 when workers mixed liquid fuel in a bucket. It killed two and over 600 were injured from radiation. There was another explosive accident before that too. Some may want to keep their heads in the sand about it, but Japan does not have a good safety record in nuclear power.

This is exactly the problem with nuclear - looking after the waste that will often remain radioactive for thousands of years - it will have an enormous cost to the economy for centuries to come.

Renewables obviously can't cope with all of our energy needs right now, but other countries have done better at harnessing wind and solar energy than Japan has. Also couldn't this country use all of that geothermal energy that lies just below the surface here a bit more?

I'm sure Japan could do a lot better, but as usual it's the same old dinosaurs looking after the same old vested interests.

There is no turning back once nuclear waste was created and millions had electricity from it. Very few complained when the NPPs were built and the power companies poured billions into those local communities that were mainly fishing and farming place without winter jobs.

There is no turning back from the nuclear clock we are stuck with for 10,000 years.

Finland has taken the lead on its storage of nuclear waste deep underground. Japan needs something similar.

Japans famous ‘bushido’ culture needs to be changed to ‘bullshido’ culture. How can anyone put trust in Japanese manufacturing and not just the nuclear agency. All the major car producers are guilty of falsifying emissions data. All the bribery scandals involving construction companies. The Olympic bribery scandals. The hundreds of apartment blocks that were built with sub-standard amounts of steel reinforcing. Pretty much everything in Japan is a sham. Phone contracts, rental leases, highway tolls, the list just goes on.

Finland has taken the lead on its storage of nuclear waste deep underground. Japan needs something similar.

Not much chance of that in Japan, unfortunately. One of the requirements is that you need to put it somewhere where the rock isn't going to change for millions of years, or that the storage facility is not going to crack, erode or be split apart by an earthquake. Over the thousands of years that this stuff has to be stored, land becomes sea and sea becomes land. Japan being one of the most earthquake-prone countries on the planet with very mobile crust beneath it, probably makes it a poor choice of place for burying nuclear waste to say the least.

https://www.businessinsider.com/finland-nuclear-waste-disposal-worlds-first-underground-site-2022-6#humans-will-still-need-to-work-on-the-site-until-it-is-closed-sometime-around-2120-27

There are thousands of uninhabited islands where nuclear storage can be constructed.

There are hundreds of millions of tons of nuclear waste coming down the pipeline.

There is no way to prevent it.

Where are the hundreds of millions of tons of nuclear waste to be stored? There are 50 tons of plutonium.

What company design these reactors,Slim Shaddy

They are not reactors.