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MARK WILLACY: And the most daunting task – one the nuclear industry has never faced - is getting the melted fuel out. TEPCO admits the technology it needs hasn’t been invented yet.

GREGORY JACZKO, FORMER CHAIRMAN, US NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION: They’ve sent in some robots. All the robots have been disabled because of the high radiation fields. It may be possible that we’re never able to remove the fuel. You may just wind up having to leave it there and somehow entomb it as it is. I mean that’s certainly a possibility. There is no playbook, they’re making this up as they go along and that’s in a lot of ways the best they can do.

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NAOTO KAN: [FORMER PRIME MINISTER, JAPAN] So far the government is paying $70 billion to support TEPCO. But that is not enough. It will probably cost more than $240 billion.
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NAOTO KAN [FORMER PRIME MINISTER, JAPAN]: It’s become clear that nuclear power is more dangerous than other energy sources. In the past, they said it was cheap - but it was only cheap if the cost of accidents, or the cost of disposing of spent fuel and nuclear waste was not included.