What will spark the next Fukushima?  An untrustworthy nuclear
industry, incompetently regulated, is leading the world into
greater and greater danger 'Fukushima is supposedly one of the
safest stations in one of the most safety-conscious countries in
the world.' Photograph: Daisuke Tomita/AP  The gung-ho nuclear
industry is in deep shock. Just as it and its cheerleader, the
International Atomic Energy Agency, were preparing to mark next
month's 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident with a series
of self-congratulatory statements about the dawning of a safe
age of clean atomic power, a series of catastrophic but entirely
avoidable accidents take place in not one but three reactors in
one of the richest countries of the world. Fukushima is not a
rotting old power plant in a failed state manned by half-trained
kids, but supposedly one of the safest stations in one of the
most safety-conscious countries with the best engineers and
technologists in the world.  Chernobyl blew up not because the
reactor malfunc