Protest march over nuclear power in Japan

Today, on the 2nd anniversary of the ongoing Fukushma Nuclear Accident and clean up, people all over the world are reflecting on and protesting against Nuclear Power. Many whose governments are phasing out this dangerous energy source.:  VIRGINIA

 

Fukushima not forgotten

Dave Sweeney ABC Environment 11 Mar 2013

Fukushima's meltdown broadcast radiation far and wide.

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Exactly two years ago the nuclear plant at Fukushima exploded. The area still hums with radiation and people still cannot return home.

MARCH 11 MARKS an occasion the global nuclear industry would much rather forget but one that holds a particularly dark relevance for Australia. It was the day in 2011 when Japan suffered the trifecta of a massive earthquake, a tsunami and the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex.

It was also the day when Australian uranium directly fuelled one of the worst nuclear disasters the world has ever witnessed.

http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2013/03/11/3711335.htm



Protest march over nuclear power in Japan
Updated: 22:09, Sunday, 10 March

Thousands of protesters have marched in the Japanese capital calling on the government to shun nuclear power.
The protest comes a day before the second anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that triggered the world's worst atomic disaster in 25 years.
Japan is still coming to terms with the disaster that ravaged its northeastern region two years ago.
The earthquake and tsunami killed more than 15,000 people.
Several thousand people are still unaccounted for.
The nuclear meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Daiichi plant forced 160,000 people from their homes and many of them will never return.
It also sparked an unprecedented protest movement against nuclear power.

Tepco faces a decades-long effort to decontaminate and decommission the wrecked nuclear plant after the worst atomic disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
All of Japan's 50 reactors were gradually shut down after the Fukushima disaster and all but two of them remain idle.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0310/375917-protest-march-over-nuclear-power-in-japan/

Protesters rail against Abe, reactors

Nearly 300 events held nationwide to voice anger at government

by Ayako Mie,Staff Writer, Mar 11, 2013

More than 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Tokyo Sunday, calling for an immediate phaseout of atomic energy and railing against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s stubbornly pronuclear stance.
Almost 300 protests and gatherings were staged nationwide over the weekend, a symbolic gesture as the country prepared to commemorate the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami that triggered one of the world’s worst nuclear crises.
Protesters warned that the crisis at the flooded Fukushima No. 1 power plant is far from over, with almost 150,000 Fukushima Prefecture residents still displaced and no time frame in sight for their return, even two years after the Tokyo Electric Power Co. facility was staggered by three core meltdowns.
“The first thing the government should be doing is focusing more on decommissioning (the reactors), rather than working on other issues,” said Akiyoshi Ando, 65, who has organized several antinuclear demonstrations in Yokohama. “The government is turning away from the people affected.”
Many also vented their anger about Tepco’s reported plan to dump contaminated water from the No. 1 power station into the Pacific after storage runs out.
But the main target of their ire was the pronuclear stance of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party government.
Since taking office in late December, the prime minister has said he wants to restart idled reactors up and down the archipelago and resume construction of new reactors, while also ramping up exports of Japan’s nuclear technologies to other countries.
However, no one has even figured out a way yet to deal with the amount of spent nuclear fuel relentlessly accumulating at the various facilities.
In his summit talks with U.S. President Barack Obama last month, Abe said his administration will not adhere to the ousted Democratic Party of Japan-led government’s target of achieving the complete abolition of nuclear power by the 2030s. He also pledged to bolster collaboration between Tokyo and Washington on nuclear power technology.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/11/national/protesters-rail-against-abe-reactors/

1000's protest nuclear energy in Tokyo on Fukushima anniversary

By Anne Sewell

Mar 10, 2013

Tokyo - In the run up to the second anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that caused the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, tens of thousands have taken to the streets of Tokyo in protest against nuclear power.

Two years ago on Monday, an earthquake caused a devastating tsunami which set off the meltdowns at Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant in Japan, displacing hundreds of thousands of people and killing some 19,000 people.

160,000 have had to leave their homes around the plant, whole communities nearby have become ghost towns and there are fears about cancer and other illnesses caused by the radiation. It was recently found that around 36% of Fukushima children have abnormal thyroid growths, almost definitely due to the radiation in the area.

Since then there have been several mass protests against nuclear power in the country.

Now, with the second anniversary coming up on Monday, around 13,000 people gathered on the streets of Tokyo on Saturday, carrying banners reading "No nukes" and "Let's save the children," urging the new Prime Minister to change the pro-atomic agenda in the country.

Some protesters also attempted to garner support for the rescue of animals that are still in the ‘no-go’ high-radiation zone.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/345305#ixzz2NHDlkRzn

Pet rescue Fukushima! Animals saved from nuclear wasteland by volunteers who risked their own lives

By Daily Mail Reporter
UPDATED:08:08 EST, 31 January 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2094264/Braving-radiation-zone-rescue-abandoned-pets-Fukushima.html

On Eve of Quake Anniversary, Thousands Demand End to Nuclear Power

Stockbyte/Thinkstock(TOKYO) -- Thousands rallied against a government plan to restart idle nuclear reactors in Japan on Sunday.

The protests come as the country marks the second anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Two years later, 160,000 people remain displaced, and the 12 mile area around the plant remains off limits, though radiation levels have dropped 40 percent.
http://www.kmbz.com/On-Eve-of-Quake-Anniversary-Thousands-Demand-End-t/15759910

 

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