We start our story not with the still-unfolding events at Fukushima, but with one ordinary resident of Tokyo -- an IT worker, speaking to CNNGo on condition of anonymity and recalling her visit to the Daiichi nuclear power plant as a junior-high student in the 1970s.
?I asked the people working there, what was the contingency plan in the case of a terrorist attack. Can you imagine the answer I got? ?It cannot occur.? That was all,? she recalled.
?There was no plan for an emergency. Plant operator TEPCO hides the truth, so I cannot trust it at all,? she told me decades later, after one of the world?s worst nuclear accidents had rendered chunks of Japan uninhabitable and displaced tens of thousands.
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