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Your link [1] says that the Three Mile Island cleanup was 14 years, not 40, and cost $1 billion.

I think you’ve counted to one strike against the ability of well-functioning societies to operate nuclear safely—-Fukushima—-because $1 billion is pretty negligible in comparison and Chernobyl was operated by a shambolic totalitarian state.

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Technically true, but would you raise a family there? What would your extended family think? Would friends visit? If not, then that land is pretty much tainted and 40 years is generous - several generations maybe required...

If it's much cheaper than other land, I would consider.

I'm eating produce from Fukushima here in Singapore.

How do you know? I've never seen any produce that specifies the origin beyond the country.

In this case, I know because Fukushima ran an ad campaign here.

But in general, lots of specialty produce is sold with more specific region information beyond just the country. Especially the Japanese producers are really keen on that.

(For a related, but famous example, have a look at wine, especially Champagne which has to be from the Champagne wine region of France.)

Yeah, they do that in the framework of the "Appellation of origin". However we are not at the point yet where this applies to Fukushima :-) Anyway, interesting point about the ad campaign, and thanks for the info!

Everything you mentioned is a result of decades of unjustified paranoia and stigma building. There are much more dangerous things right outside your home and plenty currently inside it but no one has bothered to terrorize you about them so you don't care.

no argument !! But telling the mainstream that nuclear power is safe is like convincing them that MSG is safe.

Nobody would build a high income neighborhood there for a while but it’s probably not any worse than a low income area near a coal or gas plant

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