The 2011 accident caused by Tokyo Electric Power Company at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is estimated to cost 23.4 trillion yen ($147 billion) for decontamination, compensation and cleanup of the damaged reactors.Even now, 15 years later, about 24,000 people remain displaced and unable to return home, and many lives were irreversibly altered.Had it not been for delays in work at the plant that left a large volume of water on site, far more radioactive materials could have been released, potentially forcing as many as 50 million people, including those in Tokyo, to evacuate.We were co…READ FULL ARTICLE
