What A Nuclear Accident May Cost

World Nuclear Association

Major Nuclear Accident Would Cost France $580 Billion: Study -- Reuters

(Reuters) - A nuclear accident related to the single by the side of Japan's Fukushima reactor would cost France almost 430 billion euros ($580 billion), or 20 percent of its trade and industry output, French nuclear safety institute IRSN thought in a study on the doable economic force of a nuclear predicament.
A major catastrophe injurious single of France's 58 nuclear reactors and contaminating the nature with radioactive material would displace an estimated 100,000 frequent, finish crops and create massive power outages, the study thought.

 "A major accident would allow terrible penalty, but we would allow to deal with them as the motherland wouldn't be annihilated, so we allow to jargon almost it, however fractious it is," Jacques Repussard, the head of the public-funded IRSN, thought on Wednesday by the side of a presentation by the side of the Cadarache nuclear exploration centre in southeastern France.