Who is to blame for Japan's nuclear disaster?

The Tokyo Elecric Power Company has received most of the blame for Japan's nuclear disaster, but experts say that the problems run deeper than TEPCO. Paul Scalise, a TEPCO expert with the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan Campus, says that the demonizing of TEPCO happens so that politicians, bureaucrats and the electorate can avoid blame themselves. He points out that Japan's embrace of nuclear technology was a national decision, taken after the 1973 oil shock, but after accidents at Three-Mile Island and Chernobyl, local people began to take a not-in-my-back-yard attitude.
March 31, 2011 | The Economist