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Perhaos Lithuania has valid fears about the stability of the country given the unrest over dictator Lukashenko’s sham elections. The region doesn’t exactly a s
by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
Perhaos Lithuania has valid fears about the stability of the country given the unrest over dictator Lukashenko’s sham elections.
The region doesn’t exactly a stellar reputation in honesty after nuclear incidents. Japan was instantly honeat about Fukushima. Russia still lies about Chernobyl.
- AnotherGoodName 6y ago>Japan was instantly honest about Fukushima 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-oehmens-advice-on-fukushima-went-viral/ 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.
- jacquesm 6y agoChernobyl 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.