Tepco May Seek More Government Funds for Fukushima Clean-Up Cost
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. may ask the government for more funds to cover decontamination and reactor decommissioning costs from last year’s nuclear disaster at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi atomic plant.
The utility known as Tepco estimates it may cost about 10 trillion yen ($125 billion) to decontaminate areas around the plant, the Mainichi newspaper reported, citing a mid-term business plan to be announced today. Decommissioning costs for the damaged reactors will probably exceed an earlier projection of 1.15 trillion yen, the newspaper said.