Here are the topic summaries of today's Fukushima commentary and updates. Please click the link for the full reports.
Commentary - A “Mindset” That May Have Killed Thousands
- This past July, the Chair of the Diet’s Fukushima Accident
Investigative Committee, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, said that the “ingrained
conventions” of Japanese culture were at least partly to blame for the
Fukushima accident. This past week, a survey run by the Cabinet Office
may show that Kurokawa was on to something profound. The question we
should now ask is this - how many of those who died because of the
3/11/11 tsunami made no attempt to flee, and further how many of them
would be alive today if they had fled?
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are today’s Fukushima updates - Although the Liberal Democratic Party
of Japan ran a nuclear-neutral campaign, they are beginning to show some
pronuclear colors... LDP party chief Shinzo Abe said the new government
will thoroughly review the cause of the Fukushima accident. This could
mean yet another lengthy, formal investigation in addition to the five
that already exist... Shinzo Abe also said the government must review
the current policy of not allowing new nukes to be built. He explained
the decision on new nuke builds will be determined by the country’s
future energy situation... The Mainichi Shimbun is calling for a
re-evaluation of the possibility of seismic faults for all nuclear power
stations in the country... Tokyo’s suburban city of Higashimurayama
will provide free testing of foods for radioactive Cesium in January.
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