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The Fukushima disaster: Three years on, who's fooling whom?

Journalists and academics tackle different sides of an a issue that's no laughing matter

Not fooling around: An anti-nuclear protester marches toward the Diet as part of a demonstration in Tokyo on Dec. 22. | AP

Mar 31, 2014

On April Fools' Day, writers offer their views on who has been deceived -- and who has been behind the deception -- surrounding the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 plant on March 11, 2011, and the ongoing related problems in the prefecture and beyond.

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Japan's new Basic Energy Plan sees nuclear power as an important base load energy source. But whatever "base load" means politically, the public is lulled — fooled — into a sense that, despite Fukushima, nuclear will remain a logistically viable long-term option.

The Fukushima disaster: Three years on, who's fooling whom?

Journalists and academics tackle different sides of an a issue that's no laughing matter

What's wrong with this picture?

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