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Editorial
Nature 448, 387 (26 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448387a; Published online 25 July 2007
Nuclear test
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Abstract
Japan's response to an earthquake highlights both the promise and the pitfalls of nuclear power at a critical time for its future.
On the face of it, the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company seem to have reacted competently when an earthquake occurred some 20 kilometres from a huge nuclear facility on 16 July (see page 392).The incident, at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata prefecture on Japan's western coast, could have been serious.
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