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Comment by Maria De Wind on July 2, 2011 at 1:46am

In Japan, a worker from the clean-up crew at the 
destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant came 
forward on behalf of his fellow crew members to 
criticize TEPCO, the owner of the destroyed nuclear 
plant.

He said, "The myth of infallible safety has changed 
to despair...I was an accomplice in this safety myth. 
This is a way to carry out my responsibility and my 
way to make atonement to those people who can no 
longer live in their village. One day - one day, we're 
going to return them there."

The nuclear plant workers fear that the lessons learned 
here will be forgotten and that people need to realize 
that the problems from the crippled facility are far from 
over and that a very real danger remains.

This is the first televised report of what's happening 
at the Fukushima plant that we've seen in a while.

 

Also today, the UK Guardian reported on the release of 
80 emails that were described as "Orwellian," showing 
that in the days after the Fukushima accident, "Not one 
but two [UK] government departments were working with 
nuclear companies to spin one of the biggest industrial 
catastrophes of the last 50 years, even as people were 
dying and a vast area was being made uninhabitable 
for generations."