Reading Newspaper 5

業界が直面する課題に挑むうえで、電力各社が出資する原電は適役といえる原発づくりは、 地上のなんだかんだに精力を費やすせいか、地中への目配りが十分でなかったようだ。足元の怪しい施設は一つ二つにとどまらず、今さらながら、地震列島に原 発大国を築いたことが悔やまれる。国土を守る、大地主神（おおとこぬしのかみ）の渋面を思う。




With decommissioning hanging over the entire nuclear industry, Japan Atomic Power is in prime position because it is funded by capital from electric power companies themselves. In building nuclear plants, those companies had to take into account local interests. But they apparently failed to pay sufficient attention to what lay underground. Several nuclear power plants are now suspected to be sitting on active faults.
We are belatedly sorry that so many nuclear power plants were built on our highly earthquake-prone archipelago. I can picture the face of Otokonushi-no-kami, the guardian deity of our land, expressing a particularly sour look.