Editorial: After sayonara, second thoughts
Published in The Hindu on September 25, 2012 Now that the dust has settled, the Japanese government’s failure formally to approve a cabinet panel proposal to phase out nuclear energy…
Category: Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)
Editorial: Sayonara nuclear power
Published in The Hindu on September 22, 2012 The much needed big push towards low-cost, highly-efficient, cutting-edge renewable energy technologies was lacking till recently. Even the compulsion to cut down…
Editorial: Price of collusion
Published in The Hindu on July 19, 2012 The recently released report of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission provides official confirmation of what has been common knowledge since…
Editorial: Let truth prevail
Published in The Hindu on February 29, 2012 Japan’s Nuclear Safety chairman Haruki Madarame’s recent admission at a parliamentary investigation that the “safety requirements” of the 40-year-old Fukushima Dai-ichi plant…
Naoto Kan: “What the hell is going on?”
Published in The Hindu on March 24, 2011 Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan had every reason to ask the executives of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), “What the hell…
