Kan says pro-nuclear mentality to blame for Fukushima disaster

TOKYO —

The grip of the nuclear lobby in Japan before the Fukushima disaster was akin to that of the military in the run-up to World War II, the prime minister at the time of last year’s catastrophe said Monday.
At a parliamentary inquiry into the world’s worst atomic crisis in 25 years, Naoto Kan said the lion’s share of the blame for the tsunami-triggered disaster lay with the state for its unquestioning promotion of nuclear power.
“The nuclear accident was caused by a nuclear plant which operated as national policy,” Kan said.
“I believe the biggest portion of blame lies with the state,” said the former premier, who has come out strongly against the technology since the Fukushima disaster in March last year.

 

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Pro-nuclear mentality blamed for Fukushima News24 Now R193.95 Tokyo - The grip of the nuclear lobby in Japan before the Fukushima disaster was akin to that of the military in the run up to World War II, the prime minister at the time of last year's catastrophe said on Monday.

Pro-nuclear mentality to blame for Fukushima: ex-PM Ahram Online Members of the media and TEPCO employees look at the TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, May 26, 2012. (Photo: Reuters) The grip of the nuclear lobby in Japan before the Fukushima disaster was akin to ...