"The buck stops at the prime minister's desk" re: the worsening Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis

In an op-ed published in the Japan Times, Andrew DeWit, a professor in the School of Policy Studies, Rikkyo University, and Dr. Christopher Hobson, a research fellow at the Institute for Sustainability and Peace, United Nations University, Tokyo, argue that "the buck stops at the prime minister’s desk" in regards to the worsening crisis at Fukushima Daiichi. They urge Japanese Prime Minister Abe to take control over the decommissioning, to try to deal with the 300 tons per day of radioactively contaminated water flowing into the ocean, as well as the impending, high-risk removal of hundreds of tons of irradiated nuclear fuel from the precarious Unit 4 storage pool.

Update on September 14, 2013 by admin

The two authors expanded their op-ed, above, into a much longer and more detailed article in Truthout, with full footnotes, entitled "Abe at Ground Zero: The Consequences of Inaction at Fukushima Daiichi."