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Tepco’s Fukushima Daichi (Fukushima No. 1) Nuclear Disaster, started in March of 2011 and is ongoing. It continues to belch radiation into the air and into the Pacific Ocean.

The below Japanese scandal, which came to light almost one decade before Tepco’s Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, sounds eerily similar to the ongoing Areva-Le Creusot nuclear parts scandal. Some of the suspect Areva-Le Creusot Forge (formerly Schneider Forge) parts are of reactor pressure vessels. One reactor pressure vessel which Schneider Forge made for Beznau I (in Switzerland) reportedly has almost 1000 defects due to what may be a combination of aging and substandard quality. The US NRC demonstrates its usual devil may care attitude. Potentially defective parts include the reactor pressure vessels made by Schneider Forge for Prairie Island Nuclear Power Station, at the headwaters of the Mississippi River, and within yards of an American Indian Reservation. Is this why they don’t…