[Peace-discuss] Japanese warning

[C. G. Estabrook]

{From <http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,750773,00.html>.]

...The fact that Japan, which was once considered a miracle economy, was on the 
verge of a nuclear disaster could be far more devastating to the nuclear 
industry than the Soviet reactor catastrophe in Chernobyl could ever have been a 
quarter century ago.

Admittedly, Japan is in an earthquake zone, which puts it at greater risk than 
countries like Germany and France. But Japan also happens to be a leading 
industrialized nation, a country where well-trained, pedantically precise 
engineers build the world's most advanced and reliable cars.

When the Chernobyl accident occurred, Germany's nuclear industry managed to 
convince itself, and German citizens, that aging reactors and incapable, sloppy 
engineers in Eastern Europe were to blame. Western reactors, or so the industry 
claimed, were more modern, better maintained and simply safer.

It is now clear how arrogant this self-assured attitude is. If an accident of 
this magnitude could happen in Japan, it can happen just as easily in Germany. 
All that's needed is the right chain of fatal circumstances. Fukushima is 
everywhere...


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