According to a story in today's Independent it was the spine-chilling fear of an abandoned Tokyo that persuaded the Prime Minister to scrap nuclear power in Japan. This came about because of a contingency plan to evacuate the city after the tsunami last year caused damage to the nuclear power plant in Fukushima.
It seems a bit of an over-reaction to base policy on worst-case scenario planning that never happened. Still, probably not the first time a policy-maker has done something I find difficult to understand.
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