More on US-Japan Effort to Build Secret Nuclear Waste Dump in Mongolia

[kristopher]

Mainichi scoop on Mongolia's nuclear plans highlights problems in dealing with waste

Coverage on a secret document detailing an international nuclear waste disposal site that Japan and the United States had planned to build in Mongolia, for which I won the Vaughan-Ueda Memorial Prize for 2011, has highlighted the difficulties in dealing with radioactive waste.

The secret plan surfaced as the crisis at the tsunami-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant has stirred controversy over the pros and cons of nuclear power.

I learned that the Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry and the U.S. Department of Energy had been secretly negotiating the plan with Mongolia since the autumn of 2010 when I interviewed a U.S. nuclear expert on the phone on April 9, 2011.

"Would you please help the Mongolian people who know nothing about the plan. Mongolia is friendly to Japan, Japanese media certainly has influence on the country," the expert said.

I flew to Ulan Bator...

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20120313p2a00m0na003000c.html

[madokie]

1. By hook or by crook

it seems to matter not. The nuclear power industry is the most corrupt, misleading and lying bunch of lowlife's in the whole world of corporations.

[kristopher]

2. It's made of the worst elements of both government and corporate greed rolled into one. nt

[madokie]

3. No doubt.

[kristopher]

4. Absolutely none. nt