Revealed: British government's plan to play down Fukushima

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/30/british-government-plan-play-down-fukushima

Internal emails seen by Guardian show PR campaign was launched to protect UK nuclear plans after tsunami in Japan

Rob Edwards guardian.co.uk, Thursday 30 June 2011 21.36 BST Article history

British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known.

Internal emails seen by the Guardian show how the business and energy departments worked closely behind the scenes with the multinational companies EDF Energy, Areva and Westinghouse to try to ensure the accident did not derail their plans for a new generation of nuclear stations in the UK.

"This has the potential to set the nuclear industry back globally," wrote one official at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), whose name has been redacted. "We need to ensure the anti-nuclear chaps and chapesses do not gain ground on this. We need to occupy the territory and hold it. We really need to show the safety of nuclear."

Officials stressed the importance of preventing the incident from undermining public support for nuclear power.

[Octafish]

1. ''This has the potential to set the nuclear industry back globally...''

Oh yeah.

[malaise]

2. One more great coverup

Fuck people - only profit counts.

[Prometheus Bound]

3. I told my British friends this was happening and they said it was nonsense.

They said we read the BBC every day and all their experts say the problem is not serious.

[RoryK]

4. I put nothing past the Brits.

Ratbags, the lot of them!

[bananas]

5. Coordinated US industry response to Fukushima

Coordinated US industry response to Fukushima: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x299537

You just can't trust the nuclear industry.

[StarsInHerHair]

6. no, if self-policing worked we wouldn't have cops, nor would we have had

the pedo-priests