A Revolt, the Quiet Japanese Way

A Revolt, the Quiet Japanese Way

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Wolf Richter    www.testosteronepit.com
New revelations seeped out about the control Japan’s nuclear industry had over its regulators. In early 2006, five years before the apparently preventable meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC), an "independent" agency, began studying the enlargement of disaster-mitigation zones around nuclear power plants—from Japan’s standard 8-10 km to the International Atomic Energy Agency's standard of a 5-km “top priority zone” and a 30-km “priority zone.”