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Décembre 2017 / Fukushima is still news

Officials deliberately downplayed Chernobyl disaster



https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201712210043.html

Foreign Ministry officials made a concerted effort to downplay the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 to promote nuclear power and avoid friction at a Group of Seven summit in Japan, ministry documents showed.

The documents released on Dec. 20 also showed a sense of overconfidence in the safety of nuclear power in Japan that may have led in part to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011.

Soviet officials announced (...)

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 Tchernobyl