Earthquakes and Nuclear Power in Japan: Nuclear Power Industry Covers Up Its Dirty Laundry – Will the International Community Have Wool Pulled Over its Eyes?

NGO briefing to media organizations covering the Japanese Nuclear Industry’s International Symposium on Nuclear Power Plant Seismic Safety, February 26th-27th (Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan)

Green Action has compiled a media briefing from publicly available documents issued in English and Japanese by scientists and engineers, Kashiwazaki and Kariwa residents and legislators, and NGOs in Japan calling for closure of Tokyo Electric’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.

Read the facts the Japanese nuclear industry may not reveal to the international community.

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“Japanese Nuclear Power Industry Covers Up Its Dirty Laundry: Will the International Community Have Wool Pulled Over its Eyes?”

On February 26th–27th in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture, the Japan Industrial Atomic Forum (JAIF) is co-hosting “The International Symposium on Seismic Safety of Nuclear Power Plants and Lessons Learned from the Niigataken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake.”

Fifty-five nuclear power plants operate in seismically active Japan. The Japanese nuclear industry is eager to make it appear as though “business as usual” can continue at Japanese nuclear power plants in spite of the 16 July 2007 Chuetsu-oki Earthquake (6.8 on the Richter scale) that rocked Tokyo Electric’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata, Japan.