10-08-2016, 05:18 AM
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Originally posted by bananahead
USSR tried to keep their prob out of the news and cover it all up, Japan not so...
Short memories? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/world/...japan.html
Among other things in the article:
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In interviews and public statements, some current and former government officials have admitted that Japanese authorities engaged in a pattern of withholding damaging information and denying facts of the nuclear disaster — in order, some of them said, to limit the size of costly and disruptive evacuations in land-scarce Japan and to avoid public questioning of the politically powerful nuclear industry. As the nuclear plant continues to release radiation, some of which has slipped into the nation’s food supply, public anger is growing at what many here see as an official campaign to play down the scope of the accident and the potential health risks.