Re:Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the...
by jacquesm on Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:43PM
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Chernobyl came pretty close, if you read whatever factual information is available about the progression of the accident there were at least two moments where very small changes made all the difference.
They acknowledge it now but when it hit there were non-stop blog posts going viral about how it's impossible for Fukushima to suffer a meltdown due to the design. The Japanese government was restricting information so tightly that there was no refutation of this misinformation.
Josef Oehmen's "Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors" went viral for example: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20266-how-josef-oehme...
It was all very reminiscent of the Soviet "It's impossible for Chernobyl to meltdown".
So no Japan was not instantly honest. They were not informing people of the real situation even after they knew.