Former Japan PM: We Were Lied To About Nuclear Power
In a recent editorial in the Asahi Shimbun former PM Koizumi makes an unusual and candid statement:
“Denjiren (the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan) has been telling a pack of lies,” he began. “When experts say nuclear power generation is safe and doesn’t cost much and this is the only way to go if we want to stop relying on coal, well, we believe them. But they’ve been lying to us for years. And the point is, we’ve never really known anything about nuclear power generation. We had little interest in it before 3/11, and we certainly had no idea how difficult it is to control nuclear energy.”
“You felt you were taken for a ride?” I ventured. “That’s it. Exactly,” he replied.
Wow. So, he switched sides when he realized he had been deceived by bureaucrats and nuclear experts. I was reminded of victims of fraud. I then tried a number of times to get him to say something about victims of the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, but I struck out there.
Anyway, here was a man who held Japan’s highest political office for five and a half years, lamenting now–and openly admitting–that he’d been lied to.
When you think about it, Japan is really a dreadful country where critical information is deliberately withheld from the prime minister who determines the fate of the country, and even he is made to believe the “myth” of nuclear safety. I felt I could understand Koizumi’s defection as a person.”
Koizumi went on to compare the reluctance to move away from nuclear power with Japan’s reluctance to leave Manchuria. Both times these changes were resisted citing business need.
Read the entire editorial at Asahi Shimbun
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/column/AJ201401120009
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