A critical account arguing that a post-disaster visit to Fukushima was intended not for rescue, but to frame nuclear power as evil and renewable energy as virtue.

2016-03-22
A telecommunications company executive, finding that investments in the United States were not going well, decided to move into the power sector—a field that citizens inevitably use and pay for, a business where money flows even if one does nothing—and, to that end, carried out the acquisition of a major renewable power generation company under a strict gag order so that no one would find out.
After that, he loaded a Geiger counter into his car and headed for Fukushima in the Tohoku region, a place with which he had no connection whatsoever.
He did not go there to rescue anyone or to search for missing persons.
He went there to persuade Prime Minister 菅直人 by making nuclear power appear evil, making the renewable energy company he had acquired appear virtuous, and covering the disaster-stricken areas with the solar panels of the company he had purchased.