Japan's nuclear regulators can't be trusted to protect the public.
According to this report in the Japan Times, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency asked Chubu Electric Power Company to send its employees, and employees of affiliated companies, to a 2007 symposium about a plutonium-thermal power generation project at Chubu Electric's Hamaoka nuclear power plant. They were planted there to ensure attendees would not unanimously oppose the project. "It also asked the power company to prepare a list of questions, and ask local residents to raise them, so that the questions at the symposium would not be dominated by people who opposed the pluthermal project,'' the paper reports.
In other words, the agency, responsible for regulating nuclear power, tried to manipulate public opinion to support the nuclear plant.
The corruption goes deep. As reported here, we now have evidence that more than 70 per cent of donations to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Japan came from power companies, including Tokyo Electric Power Company, the outfit behind the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. No wonder Japan remains a nuclear risk.
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