Fukushima: “Usual suspects in Japan are getting richer… at the expense of public safety”
After the tsunami, and the resulting shutdown (meltdown) of the plant, the widely respected technology writer Robert X. Cringely made TEPCO, the Tokyo power company that still controls the site, a water-treatment technology that was known to work. They rejected it for a technology costing 20 times more (that’s two orders of magnitude) that failed in less than one day.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Japanese government have done a spectacularly bad job of managing this accident. In large part they haven’t managed it. Rather they’ve extended the Japanese patronage system to benefit from the disaster at the expense of public health, public safety, and the Japanese economy. As a result, the usual suspects in Japan are getting richer than ever while the real problems not only haven’t been fixed, for the most part they haven’t even been addressed. …
Let me tell you how I know this. For the past couple of years I have been advising an environmental remediation startup that has excellent water treatment technology. Yes, I own three percent of the company.
Understand that I did business in Japan on almost a daily basis for more than 20 years. I have deep contacts there and know how business is done. Why is it that a guy like me can’t even get a reply?
Because Japanese industry is too busy making money at the country’s expense.
MORE:
http://www.cringely.com/2013/10/07/abe-fiddles-fukushima-leaks/
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