Thousands evacuate as Fukishima nuclear emergency is declared

[Magda Hassan]

The Fukushima meltdown in Japan was no surprise. As reported here, Wikileaks has revealed that the Japanese government was warned about it three years ago. A 2008 cable from the American embassy in Tokyo says that a strong earthquake would pose a "serious problem" for Japan's nuclear power stations. The official in the cable said that Japan's nuclear safety guidelines were dangerously out of date, as they had only been "revised three times in the last 35 years." The wire states that the International Atomic Energy official told a meeting of the G8's Nuclear Safety and Security Group in Tokyo in 2008 that Japan's safety guidelines were outdated. Japan, however, ignored the warning.
Indeed, we have evidence that the Japanese government covered up any problems. According to reports, one reporter is quoted saying: "Back in 1996 amid a reactor accident in Ibaraki province, the government never admitted that radioactive fallout had drifted over the northeastern suburbs of Tokyo. Our reporters got confirmation from monitoring stations, but the press was under a blanket order not to run any alarming news, the facts be damned."
The tragedy we see unfolding now is the result of a massive criminal cover-up. Thousands of people have paid the price.

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Source: Wikileaks & SOX
http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/04/03/...-cover-up/