JAPAN NUCLEAR OPERATORS STRUGGLE TO CONTAIN PR AFTERSHOCKS OF LATEST MAJOR EARTHQUAKE
August 1st, 2007
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
IN the last 18 months, the reputation of the Japanese nuclear industry has been dragged through the mud in the wake of a series of scandals. So the very last thing it needed was a safety scare at one of its main plants. To compound the problem, it was quickly apparent that the power company at the heart of the problem - the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) - had failed to learn the lessons that it had vowed to: it reacted to the crisis slowly, it failed to keep local people and the government informed of the scale of the problem, ...
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