Japan is likely to scrap a prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor in the country’s west that has operated for less than a year in over two decades, local media reported on Wednesday. More than 1 trillion yen (7.59 billion pounds) of mostly public money has been injected into the Monju facility, but Japan’s nuclear regulator last year declared its operator unfit following years of accidents, missteps and falsification of documents. The government is also grappling with a wave of anti-nuclear sentiment among its population in the wake of the Fukushima atomic disaster.
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