Public Cost Of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Continues to Rise

By the end of the 2015 fiscal year, the March 2011 nuclear accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s (TEPCO) Fukushima plant had cost the public some 4.2 trillion yen (about $42 million). Costs for decommissioning the reactor, compensating victims and radioactive decontamination, amounted to about 33,000 yen per capita.