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In Japan, (as in other countries) nuclear lobby cons children

At left is an example of AREVA’s spin to children in Australia

‘Alice in Wonderland’ was used to convince children in Japan nuclear power is safe (PHOTO & VIDEO) http://enenews.com/alice-wonderland-convince-children-japan-nuclear-power-safe-photo-video    (VIDEO) August 8th, 2012  By ENENews 
Speaker: Charles Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientists  Stories have come out that the government was promoting nuclear power so much that they were using cartoon characters, they were using Alice in Wonderland to convince school children nuclear power is incredibly safe. They weren’t showing the other side of the story adequately enough. It was an unbalanced presentation.
The New York Times’ Norimitsu Onishi on the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ theme: The New York Times’ Norimitsu Onishi on the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ theme:
Source: Ko Sasaki for The New York Times
Near a nuclear power plant facing the Sea of Japan, a series of exhibitions in a large public relations building here extols the virtues of the energy source with some help from “Alice in Wonderland.”
“It’s terrible, just terrible,” the White Rabbit says in the first exhibit. “We’re running out of energy, Alice.”
A Dodo robot figure, swiveling to address Alice and the visitors to the building, declares that there is an “ace” form of energy called nuclear power. It is clean, safe and renewable if you reprocess uranium and plutonium, the Dodo says.
“Wow, you can even do that!” Alice says of nuclear power. “You could say that it’s optimal for resource-poor Japan!”

August 9, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, spinbuster