Paul mentions "new safety guidelines (as opposed to the provisional onces applied to the Oi reactors)"

But even those provisional guidelines were not really applied to the Oi reactors. Rather, the Oi people said they had plans to satisfy the guidelines in three years' time and the fact that they had plans on paper was enough to get them a go-ahead on restarting.

No, I do not think public trust of the nuclear village will be restored any time soon. Especially with Noda all over the map on policy goals. So the question is not whether trust will be restored. It won't. But will more and more plants be restarted in the face of this distrust? And there the answer is: I fear so. Because that's how the industry wants to dispel the distrust -- not by investing heavily in safety but by saying, "See, it didn't blow up today. Totally safe."

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Fred Uleman, translator emeritus