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Japanese government’s unseemly haste to prop up the nuclear industry

“recklessly rushing to bring the reactors back online now, saying they meet its lax safety requirements”..     “The nuclear industry and the government…. are trying to pretend they can call Oi safe without improving safety or emergency measures,”

Criticism hits Japan’s plan to restart nuclear reactors NDTV, Agence France-Presse |   April 15, 2012 Tokyo:  Japan’s plan to restart two offline nuclear reactors came under fire today from media and environmental groups amid doubts over the safety of atomic power after the Fukushima accident.

“It is hard to understand why the government is in such a haste to restart the reactors,” the major daily Mainichi Shimbun said in an editorial, adding that more thorough checks were needed to ensure safety.

The government of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announced on Friday that it was safe and necessary to restart the reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in western Japan, which could help prevent power shortages in the summer months….
… “Independent studies show that there will be no power shortages,”
said Wakao Hanaoka, the Japan campaign manager for the environment
watchdog Greenpeace.

The activist said Premier Noda and the Oi plant’s operator Kansai Electric Power Co are “recklessly rushing to bring the reactors back online now, saying they meet its lax safety requirements”…… “The nuclear industry and the government were totally unprepared for the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi and now they are trying to pretend they can call Oi safe without improving safety or emergency measures,” Hanaoka said…..
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/criticism-hits-japan-s-plan-to-restart-nuclear-reactors-197838

April 16, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general