Worse than Fukushima Daiichi?

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Update:

TSURUGA: Japan's long and expensive pursuit of a super-efficient nuclear reactor is on the brink of failure amid new government concerns about its runaway costs.

The four-decade project to develop a so-called fast-breeder reactor has consumed more than $13 billion in funding, so far producing only accidents, controversies and a single hour of electricity. The government in December decided on budget cuts for the project and one top nuclear official in November raised the possibility of scrapping the plan.

Fast-breeder reactor faces closure


It looks like the fiasco at Fukushima is going to have spill over effects in the rest of Japan's nuclear power industry.

This reactor in partiular seems to have had some really bad incidents. What do you think of how they've handled this so far?

Other countries abandoned their fast-breeder development efforts decades ago because of safety and price concerns, but Japan remained committed, even after a 1995 fire caused by a sodium leak. That accident - with an attempted cover-up by the plant's officials - caused a 14-year freeze on operations. Three months after the reactor restarted in May 2010, a three-tonne piece of machinery fell into the reactor vessel, causing another delay. The device has been removed, but Monju hasn't operated since.