Thursday, June 30, 2011

IAEA reports, nuke profits

IAEA:

Radiological Monitoring and Consequences of Fukushima Nuclear Accident (2 June 2011)
http://slidesha.re/jc7RmP


IAEA Marine Environment Monitoring of Fukushima Nuclear Accident (2 June 2011)
http://slidesha.re/lY4FJ2



The Japan Times Online

38 years of nuke profit up in smoke?
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110629a2.html

By analyzing Tepco's financial statements, Oshima put its cumulative profits from its nuclear power business at ¥3.995 trillion between the business years of 1970 and 2007, which ended in March 2008. Tepco operates three nuclear power plants — the six-reactor Fukushima No. 1 plant, four-reactor Fukushima No. 2 plant and seven-reactor Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. faces a potential damages bill exceeding its profits from nuclear power generation over a 38-year period beginning in 1970, the year it opened the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 plant, according to a recent study.
The cost of power generation per kilowatt hour came to ¥10.68 for nuclear power, ¥9.90 for thermal power and ¥7.26 for hydraulic power on average during the 38-year period, when expenses for disposal of radioactive waste and subsidizing... local governments hosting nuclear plants are added to direct costs, he said.
The cost of nuclear power rose to ¥12.23 per kwh when pumped-up water power generation using power generated by reactors at night is taken into account, the economist added.

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