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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 30. July | 101 comments (101 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Tokai-mura, Monju, the faked MOX records etc. A culture of total secrecy seems to pervade the Japanese nuclear industry, maybe because aknowleding a mistake would make you lose face or something.

This is disastrous from a safety point of view where the pervading culture should be one that is not about blame and shame but one where the primary thing is understanding what went wrong and how to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Wed Jul 30th, 2008 at 01:33:35 AM EST
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Re: Japan as the safest? (none / 0)

Yes, I see now.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Wed Jul 30th, 2008 at 01:50:13 AM EST
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Re: Japan as the safest? (4.00 / 2)

It's tempting to assign such problems to the cultural 'saving face' cliché, but I think not entirely necessary: the profit motive of the fully privatised (since 1951) denryokus combined with historically lax regulation could probably explain the lack of transparency in itself.

by bobince ([and](at)doxdesk(dot)[com]) on Wed Jul 30th, 2008 at 10:29:03 AM EST
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