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Nuclear industry ‘played down disaster warning’

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/4288/nuclear-industry-played-down-disaster-warning

Report reveals how Japanese officials were lobbied just before Fukushima crisis

By Hui Shan Khoo | 13 March 2012 |

Pic: Tepco

Power companies in Japan are facing questions over their conduct just before last year’s devastating tsunami that led to nuclear disaster at Fukushima.
Only eight days before the tsunami struck a year ago last Sunday, three nuclear power companies forced the government to downplay the risk of just such a massive wave.