Sunday May 27, 2012

Is it Japan’s fate to repeatedly serve as a warning to the world about the dangers of radiation? I wish we had found the courage to speak out earlier against nuclear power.

Masahito Hirose, a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing. Like other survivors of the bombings in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, he accepted Japan’s postwar embrace of nuclear-generated power, believing government assurances that it was both safe and necessary for the nation’s economic rise. (New York Times)

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    Okinawamike

    But as you said, you received assurances that it was both safe and necessary for the nation’s economic rise.

    Not your fault old dude.

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    gaijinfo

    I don't think Japan's mismanagement of a nuclear crisis is a warning to the world of anything in particular, except maybe to manage your reactors properly, and keep the public informed.

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    JapanGal

    Would love to see a list of the so called mismanagement!

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    bluesafetypin

    believing government assurances

    just don't let it happen again

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