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Japanese powerplant

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  • The Japanese government has said it is doing all it can to contain the crisis at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, which was critically damaged in last week's earthquake. But according to U.S. diplomatic papers released by WikiLeaks, that atomic disaster might have been avoided if only the government had acted on earlier safety warnings.
    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      I read Tyler's "irrelevant but relevant" article on the problems of nuclear power reactors/how they work/their safety and decided to try and find a direct connection with Wikileaks.
  • The overall picture that emerges from the cables is of a government afraid of interfering with the powerful nuclear industry, which supplies about one-third of Japan's electricity.
  • Another cable sent from Tokyo to Washington in October 2008 alleged that the government had hidden past nuclear accidents. In 2008, Taro Kono -- a senior member of Japan's lower house of parliament -- told U.S. diplomats that the ministry of economy, trade and industry was "covering up nuclear accidents, and obscuring the true costs and problems associated with the nuclear industry."
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  • . But according to U.S. diplomatic papers released by WikiLeaks, that atomic disaster might have been avoided if only the government had acted on earlier safety warnings.
    • Nicole Wallace
      Nicole Wallace on 21 Mar 11
       
      Now that there is the potential for private documents to be leaked because of the founding of Wikileaks, will this prevent governments, corportations etc. from doing things behind the public's back? If Japan had known that papers would be revealed demonstrating that the disaster could have been avoided would they have gone to greater lengths to have tried to prevent the atmomic disaster?
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