ASSOCIATED PRESS / NOVEMBER 2011
4 on Japan nuclear safety team took utility money
A view of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. Four members of a Japanese government team assigned to set reactor safety measures received funding from utility companies or atomic industry manufacturers, raising questions about such experts' objectivity as the nation grapples with the nuclear disaster, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said Friday.