Nuclear silo vision

There was a story in the July 31 Asahi (Japanese-language) newspaper about a study that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did in 1984 and then kept secret. This was a study of what would happen if one of Japan’s nuclear power plants were attacked. As might be expected, the results were not pretty.

Given these results, you would expect MoFA would have sent copies to the Prime Minister’s Office and other government offices responsible for ensuring the integrity (safety) of Japanese nuclear power plants.  You would expect MoFA would have sounded the alarm. But you would be wrong. MoFA had 50 copies printed up and restricted distribution to inside the Ministry. Why? Because it was worried that the report would provide ammunition to the many people who were opposed to the construction of nuclear power plants. Rather than give these people something they could use in their campaign, MoFA opted for keeping the power plants at risk. Rather than share the information with people who could have beefed up the facilities and made them a little more robust, the Ministry stuck its head in the sand.
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In a way, this is typical. For another example of the same kind of thinking, you have only to look at the court system where the prosecutors do not share evidence/information that would help the defense. They are more interested in protecting their positions than they are in achieving justice. So they hide test results and other things. So they stack the deck. And then they wonder why nobody believes them. Just like Kasumigaseki wonders why nobody believes their claims that the nuclear power plants are safe. If you do not share your information and your thinking, you cannot reasonably expect people to share your conclusions. “Trust me” does not work anymore.

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