Chants of 'no nukes' echo in streets of Shibuya, Harajuku districts
Source: Asahi Shimbun
With an eye to getting their message out to young people, demonstrators calling for a departure from nuclear power on Sept. 29 changed course from their usual venue and took to the streets in Tokyo's trendy Shibuya and Harajuku districts.
Protesters shouted slogans such as "We've got enough electric power" and "No nuke reactors on earthquake-prone islands" as they marched past Marui City Shibuya and other fashionable commercial establishments packed with trend-conscious youths.
The "No Nukes Demo" was the brainchild of the Metropolitan Coalition against Nukes, a civil advocacy group that organizes weekly anti-nuclear protest rallies outside the prime minister's office on Friday evenings in Tokyo's Nagatacho district. Organizers said they thought that the nation's youths are not even aware that all 50 existing nuclear power reactors in Japan are currently offline, for maintenance and safety checks.
The march followed a rally in Nagatacho on Sept. 27 opposing Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s application to the Nuclear Regulation Authority for safety screening of two reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture, as a prelude to their possible restart.
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RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)In the US, the last Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner has been going around saying we need to close down all of our existing nuclear power plants due to safety reasons.
Guess he has the inside information about the inevitable fallacy of "Safe Nuclear Power"? Jazcko, the ex-leader of the NRC, has seen the light from Fukushima and is bucking the trend, hence why he is no longer the chief nuclear protagonist.
Jazcko obviously feels we can't live with nuclear, so that means we can live without such danger, eh?
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Ex-top U.S. nuclear regulator counsels end to atomic power
BY KAZUAKI NAGATA
SEP 24, 2013
The ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 plant is a sign that the world needs to seriously rethink nuclear safety and consider possibly ending its dependence on atomic power, the former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday in Tokyo.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112754507