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"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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NYTimes: Tepco “has worked vigilantly to shut out close scrutiny of the ravaged plant’s condition”

NYTimes: Tepco “has worked vigilantly to shut out close scrutiny of the ravaged plant’s condition”

Published: June 21st, 2012 at 12:03 am ET
By ENENews

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Tepco, Operator of Fukushima, Exonerates Itself in Report
New York Times
By HIROKO TABUCHI
June 20, 2012

The much vilified operator of the tsunami-hit nuclear power plant at Fukushima released a report on Wednesday that said the company never hid information, never underplayed the extent of fuel meltdown and certainly never considered abandoning the ravaged site.[...]

Over the last year, new details of the disaster have emerged that build a picture of an organization that ignored or concealed that its reactors might be vulnerable to quakes and tsunamis, used its close links with regulators and nuclear experts to hijack nuclear policy and — since the accident — has worked vigilantly to shut out close scrutiny of the ravaged plant’s condition.

[...]

Critics were skeptical. “The report is too full of excuses,” said Masako Sawai of the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, an anti-nuclear policy group.

“If we don’t get to the bottom of this accident, how can we prevent future ones?” she asked.

[...]

Published: June 21st, 2012 at 12:03 am ET
By ENENews

NYTimes: Tepco “has worked vigilantly to shut out close scrutiny of the ravaged plant’s condition”.

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