Japan likely to scrap fast-breeder nuclear reactor: reports
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS | Wed Sep 21, 2016 | 3:02am EDT
Japan likely to scrap fast-breeder nuclear reactor: reports
Japan is likely to scrap a prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor in the country's west that has operated for less than a year in over two decades, local media reported on Wednesday.
More than 1 trillion yen ($9.84 billion) of mostly public money has been injected into the Monju facility, but Japan's nuclear regulator last year declared its operator unfit following years of accidents, missteps and falsification of documents.
The government is also grappling with a wave of anti-nuclear sentiment among its population in the wake of the Fukushima atomic disaster.
Tokyo believes it would be difficult to gain public support to spend another 580 billion yen on the project over the next 18 years if the reactor was restarted, the Nikkei business daily and Mainichi newspaper said, without citing sources.
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