Japan’s nuclear mobsters don’t share tsunami pain

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Japan’s nuclear mobsters don’t share tsunami pain

March 11 2012

A year after an earthquake in Japan touched off the worst
nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, here’s the question on my
mind: Who’s going to jail?

The news media are asking the obvious and safe questions
ahead of today: How well did the government respond?
Whither the devastated north-east? What’s the economic
effect? When might the 52 of 54 nuclear reactors
mothballed since then reopen? The “anniversary” articles
miss the point.

Anniversaries commemorate events in the past, ones for
which there is a modicum of closure. Radiation is still
venting into the air around Fukushima. Makeshift equipment
is keeping vital reactor systems operating. Is Japan’s 3/11
history? Not unless we change the definition.

What the first anniversary of the disaster requires is a dose
of accountability. We need a few good perp walks by
current and past Tokyo Electric Power executives, whose
arrogance, negligence and corruption sent radiation clouds
Tokyo’s way.

Next on the docket should be the government officials who
enabled what resembles an organised crime syndicate.

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