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Eisaku Satō (governor)

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40: 216:. Like his predecessors he appreciated the jobs and subsidies associated with the nuclear plants in the prefecture. He believed it was part of Fukushima playing a role in the Japanese nation as a whole. In 1998 he conditionally agreed the controversial use of mixed oxide plutonium uranium fuel ( 239:
because they feared that their information would go straight to Tepco. This was later shown to be a very justified fear. Sato became an increasingly bitter critic of the plant and Japan's entire energy policy as directed by NISA's powerful government overseer, the
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In 2006 Sato was forced to step down and in 2008 was prosecuted and convicted on bribery charges. He claims the charges were politically motivated. Following the conviction he wrote a book of his experiences called
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explaining his concerns about nuclear power and how he was set up and wrongfully convicted. The book was largely ignored until the events of the
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Between 2002 and 2006 twenty-one problems at the Fukushima plant were reported to his office. The
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David McNeill: Warnings of nuclear disaster not heeded, claims former governor
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https://web.archive.org/web/20110427022229/http://www.fccj.or.jp/node/6542
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Fukushima Prefecture
Isao Mastudaira
Yūhei Satō
House of Councillors
Fukushima Prefecture
Kōriyama, Fukushima
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
Alma mater
University of Tokyo
governor
Fukushima Prefecture
Japan
nuclear power
MOX
Fukushima plant
whistleblowers
Tepco
Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
政治家情報 〜佐藤 雄平〜
ザ・選挙
JANJAN
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https://web.archive.org/web/20110427022229/http://www.fccj.or.jp/node/6542
David McNeill: Warnings of nuclear disaster not heeded, claims former governor
Cordula Meyer: Der Atomstaat

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