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Frontline: In France and Japan, citizens better understand the issues, and thus nuclear power has widespread public support.



Response: France and Japan provide their citizens far less access to a free flow of information about, and even less of a voice in, their nuclear power programs than in the United States. But even in these nuclear closed societies, support for nuclear power in general, and plutonium recycling in particular, has begun to slip in the wake of recurrent safety problems at the plutonium-fueled Superphenix fast breeder reactor in France, and serious accidents at the Monju breeder and Tokai reprocessing plant in Japan. Particularly in Japan, high officials of the government-run plutonium corporation are now being demoted and are facing criminal prosecution because of deliberate concealment and distortion of the evidence of accidents, such as filing of false reports and doctoring of videotapes. Public support based on distortions and lies is undeserved.
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