Japan faces ballooning bill to deal with Fukushima meltdowns
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Japan's bill for dismantling the Fukushima nuclear plant is ballooning beyond the utility's estimate of 2 trillion yen ($19 billion).
A government study released Tuesday found decommissioning the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant had already cost 80 billion yen ($770 million) over the last three years.
The plant suffered multiple reactor meltdowns due to damage from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The ministry overseeing nuclear power said the decommissioning costs will continue at several hundreds of billions of yen (billions of dollars) a year.
Tokyo Electric Power Co., has said decommissioning will take several decades.
Japan has been struggling to clean up parts of the no-go zone to put the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl behind it.