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Nuclear energy: Nationalize the Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant

Tomoyuki Taira¹
& Yukio Hatoyama²

Journal name:: Nature
Volume:: 480,
Pages:: 313–314
Date published:: (15 December 2011)
DOI:: doi:10.1038/480313a

Published online: 14 December 2011

Only by bringing the nuclear power station into government hands can scientists find out what really happened, say Tomoyuki Taira and Yukio Hatoyama.

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Tomoyuki Taira is a member of the House of Representatives in the Japanese Diet.
Yukio Hatoyama is a member of the House of Representatives in the Japanese Diet. He was also prime minister of Japan from 2009 until 2010.

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2011-12-15 11:45 AM

Report this comment #34129

Monica ZoppÃ¨ said:

Nothing new: private profit (TEPCO) and public costs and damage!

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