ACSO: News: Japan feared Fukushima could 'finish' Tokyo

ACSO: News: Japan feared Fukushima could 'finish' Tokyo A worst-case scenario sketched out by the Japanese government foresaw the end of Tokyo in a chain of nuclear explosions as the Fukushima crisis erupted, an independent panel said Tuesday. Chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano told investigators: "I had this demonic scenario in my head" that nuclear reactors could break down one after another."If that happens Tokyo will be finished". Plans were drawn up for the mass evacuation of the capital as Edano -- the government's point man on the nuclear crisis -- fretted that reactors all along the coast could go into meltdown and engulf the city of 13 million people. The revelation came in a 400-page report published Tuesday by a panel of experts who were given free rein to probe the events...

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ACSO: News: Shooter now unknown

The Interior Minister backtracked yesterday after previously declaring officials knew the identity of the person who shot three protesters outside a shoe factory in Svay Rieng province last week and refused to quash rumours that Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith was a suspect. Rushing to his car outside an ASEAN seminar yesterday morning, Interior Minister Sar Kheng told reporters they would “have to wait and see” if the governor was a suspect in the shooting outside the Kaoway Sports Ltd factory in Bavet town last Monday. “We don’t know the identity of the gun shooter yet and our police are looking to arrest the suspect,” he told reporters, before declining to answer any further questions. The minister’s comments come six days after he declared officials had identified the shooter and...

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