Thursday, July 5, 2012

Fukushima reactor meltdown was a manmade disaster, says official report

Guardian: Last year's accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was a manmade disaster caused by poor regulation and collusion between the government, the operator and the industry's watchdog, a report has said. In a highly critical assessment published on Thursday, a Japanese parliamentary panel challenged claims by the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), that the triple meltdown at the plant in north-east Japan had been caused solely by a 14-metre tsunami on 11 March last year....

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/05/fukushima-meltdown-manmade-disaster
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/7/5/1341479957272/Head-investigator-Kiyoshi-006.jpg

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