I believe the memo was titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike"

Japan warned over nuclear plants, WikiLeaks cables show

Warnings about the safety of nuclear power plants in Japan, one of the most seismologically active countries in the world, were raised during a meeting of the G8's Nuclear Safety and Security Group in Tokyo in 2008.

A US embassy cable obtained by the WikiLeaks website and seen by The Daily Telegraph quoted an unnamed expert who expressed concern that guidance on how to protect nuclear power stations from earthquakes had only been updated three times in the past 35 years.

The document states: "He [the IAEA official] explained that safety guides for seismic safety have only been revised three times in the last 35 years and that the IAEA is now re-examining them.

"Also, the presenter noted recent earthquakes in some cases have exceeded the design basis for some nuclear plants, and that this is a serious problem that is now driving seismic safety work."

The cables also disclose how the Japanese government opposed a court order to shut down another nuclear power plant in western Japan because of concerns it could not withstand powerful earthquakes.

Keep watching. Sooner or later we'll read about a TEPCO emergency response plan that somehow involves a Gulf Walrus.

On a more serious note, yesterday I posted a video clip of Barrack Obama telling a town hall meeting in New Orleans after the BP Macondo blowout,

There's no reason why, technologically, we can't employ nuclear energy in a safe and effective way. Japan does it and France does it, and it doesn't have greenhouse gas emissions, so it would be stupid for us not to do that in a much more effective way.

At the very least these cables should make it clear that the President was making statements that had no factual basis according to current U.S. intelligence. In this case, the President was telling a crowd of people concerned about one energy producer poisoning their coastline that maybe they should think about investing in another poisonous means of energy production, all while lying through his teeth.

Update: And also as well and such (via Digby)

Back in November, President Obama was in India pushing that country’s government to pass legislation exempting GE from liability for nuclear “accidents.” That idea is probably not going to go very far now.

Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman and CEO of GE and a big friend of Obama’s (he was named to an unpaid post as “jobs czar” by the president earlier this year, despite the company’s long record of exporting US jobs to places like China and India), says it’s “too soon” to assess the impact on the company’s nuclear business prospects of the nuclear “accidents” in northern Japan.

Also from the department of disturbingly appropriate names: Immelt.