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Foreign firms locked out of Fukushima clean-up
Independent investigators criticise the opaque bidding process for contracts
Published Wed, Dec 21, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Tokyo
CLEANING up the Fukushima nuclear plant - a task predicted to cost 86 times the amount earmarked for decommissioning Japan's first commercial reactor - is the mother of all salvage jobs. Still, foreign firms with decades of experience are seeing little of the spoils.
Safely dismantling the Japanese powe…
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