The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
Near the end of campaign against the Japan - U.S. Security Treaty (1970), a nuclear ship "Mutsu" was born.
IHI Corporation is the hull, and a pressurized water reactor production 36,000 kilowatts was contracted by Mitsubishi,
Japanese were puffed up with pride that the first domestically produced nuclear ship is equal to such as Savanna of the United States, Otto Hahn of Germany and so on.
However, it was found that there was a neutron leak from the gap of the containment shield immediately after exiting the test voyage. The control of intriguing neutrons was still not mastered perfectly by fledgling Japan.
Leakage is insignificantly, it can cover it with a substance that shields neutrons.
So it decided to use boric acid which is effective alongside water at such a time.
It cooked rice with boric acid, and spread the rice in paste form.
It seems like grandma's wisdom, but the leak has ceased.
After that, it planned to improve this shield by returning to the mother port and aim at this cruise.
However, a stupid newspaper was making a big noise as "radiation leakage", and "It covered the leak hole with rice grains" and emphasized just the badness of the nuclear ship.
The Asahi Shimbun instigates citizens of Mother Harbor Mutsu City and stirs up the culture fishery scallops as polluted, eventually "Mutsu" got stuck with drifting for 16 years since.
There is only one cause.
The reporter did not know the meaning of boric acid.
A newspaper reporter who hindered progress of Japanese science is it seems that it is not so much if he learned a bit.
The other day, there was a radiation accident of plutonium at Oarai Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute.
Come on.
"Workers are more than ten times the dangerous area bathed in Hiroshima Atomic Bombs" or "Plutonium in the lungs cannot be removed" (Asahi Shimbun) and reports daily articles like all the workers seem to be dying, accelerate nuclear allergy it continued.
In the end, it was almost a hoax, it fell silent.
Such a thing called intentional fuss.
I would like to hope for learning.