Tokyo Electric Power Co. is not a disaster management and engineering firm equipped to deal with the world’s worst industrial accident in history. It is a utility operator and has been shown to be neither competent nor properly funded for the task at hand.

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2. The Japan Times July 3 editorial “DPJ
ruins chance at power reform”
perfectly summarized Japan’s farce of
cardboard cut-out clowns
masquerading as a political
process.The Democratic Party of Japan
and other opposition parties
abandoned their mission of serving the
people. Instead of revising the Electric
Utility Power Industry Law, they
devoted themselves to protecting their
own political power.
Politicians lost the chance to reform

3. How ironic that as some estimates put
the cleanup costs of Fukushima at a
staggering $500 billion, risky schemes
are being led by the Japanese
government for infrastructure projects
in the United States and Europe. What
about investing in resolving the
Fukushima nightmare so that the
160,000 people who have been
displaced by the accident can live free
from radiation fears again?
But Japan’s big government only cares
about big money. It has now been
documented that the government’s

4. Tokyo Electric Power Co. is not a
disaster management and engineering
firm equipped to deal with the world’s
worst industrial accident in history. It is
a utility operator and has been shown
to be neither competent nor properly
funded for the task at hand.
A team of scientific and engineering
experts should be brought in to take
over the disaster; after all, this is a
global environmental issue. Without
strong outside pressure, the bumbling
Japanese bureaucratic and political
system will continue to put Fukushima
on the back burner.

5. Don’t worry, if we can’t figure out what
to do with the nuclear waste, we can
simply burn it. A “low-level waste”
incinerator will be built in Fukushima
to burn 14 tons per day of
contaminated garbage, although some
radiation will escape through the
fumes and there will be the ash to deal
with.
But what is the plan for the 280,000
tons of contaminated water — which
grows daily — that Tepco stores on
site? The company would like to dump
it and its tritium, which cannot be

6. Don’t worry, if we can’t figure out what
to do with the nuclear waste, we can
simply burn it. A “low-level waste”
incinerator will be built in Fukushima
to burn 14 tons per day of
contaminated garbage, although some
radiation will escape through the
fumes and there will be the ash to deal
with.
But what is the plan for the 280,000
tons of contaminated water — which
grows daily — that Tepco stores on
site? The company would like to dump
it and its tritium, which cannot be