BEHIND THE MYTH

BEHIND THE MYTH: Japan turned deaf ear to warnings...
The tsunami engulfs a coastal levee and approaches the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on March 11. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
Editor's note: This is the last in a four-part series on the problems, such as the safety myth, inherent in the nation's nuclear power generation industry.
BEHIND THE MYTH: A town built on nuclear subsidies, ...
Futaba Mayor Katsutaka Idogawa, center, prays with other Futaba residents who had evacuated to Kazo, Saitama Prefecture, on April 11, one month after the Great East Japan Earthquake. (Toshiyuki Takeya)
Editor's note: This is the third in a four-part series on the problems, such as the safety myth, inherent in the nation's nuclear power generation industry.
BEHIND THE MYTH: Accident management proved...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. conducts an emergency drill at the Fukushima No. 1 plant in February 2007. (The Asahi Shimbun)
In late March, as the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant worsened, Shojiro Matsuura, president of the Nuclear Safety Research Association, had many concerns about what ...
BEHIND THE MYTH: 'Nuclear village' rules itself in...
Senior TEPCO officials huddle to discuss a problem involving a reactor cooling device just before resuming service at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant No. 7 reactor in 2009. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Editor's note: This is the first in a four-part series on the problems, such as the safety myth, inherent in the nation's nuclear power generation industry.
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