Japan criticized for pushing nuke plant exports despite accident via The Mainichi Daily News

TOKYO (Kyodo) — Japan has been given the Fossil of the Day “award” at a U.N. climate change conference in Panama for pushing a scheme to promote its exports of nuclear power generation technologies to developing countries as a way of curbing global warming, an international environmental group said Monday.

The Climate Action Network, which groups some 700 nongovernmental organizations in 90 countries, said in a press release it had given Japan “first place” in the award for pushing for a mechanism for exporting nuclear technology despite the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

The network said the Fukushima calamity “certainly destroyed the myth that nuclear power is safe and clean” and rapped Japan for its failure “to learn an important lesson from the accident.”

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