No technology exists
to bring the Fukushima disaster to a satisfactory conclusion, and the cause of
the meltdown is still not known. It’s more likely earthquake magnitude 9
made meltdowns to start rather than tsunami according to Mr. Goto, nuclear
designer. (Refer to my article on Feb. 18, 2012 UN & IAEA encourage Japan
to restart nuclear) However Tepco and the group of nuclear power
including the government never seem wanting to admit it officially. Mr.
Koide, nuclear engineer (refer to my article on Feb 22, 2012 The Truth About
Nuclear Power) mentioned "The reason why is that if they do they won’t be able to restart other nuclear power stations because all of
them are standing on the possible earthquake active zone." Also
there is no way to prevent from unexpected things such as terrorist attacks,
etc. Therefore the public is not convinced it's safe to restart nuclear
power even if Prime Minister Noda said so. Without finding out the real
cause of meltdowns, nobody knows how to prevent meltdowns when the next big
earthquake/Tsunami or any other kind of environmental disasters happen. Mr.
Koide also mentioned that Fukushima has demonstrated that merely passing a stress test cannot
guarantee that a reactor will be safe in the event of an unimaginable disaster.
Kepco have admitted that
they need to restart the Oi Nuclear power plants in order to save the company
economically, not because there is a shortage of electricity, although Prime
Minister Noda said in a recent speech when he announced of restarting Oi
nuclear power plants that Japan needs to restart its nuclear power plants in
order to provide sufficient electricity for the country’s needs. Monopolized power companies have been allowed to
charge high rates for many years. The rates are calculated based on the amount
of capital tied up in the business, which includes nuclear power station
buildings and other facilities, spent fuels, uranium, etc. More nuclear
means more profit, which makes the companies reluctant to use other ways to generate electricity. According
to Japanese government statistics, half the thermal power stations have been
closed because of this. There are nine electric power companies in Japan,
and Kepco is the one that relies on nuclear the most.Prime Minister Noda also mentioned that meltdown would never be happening again whatever happens. How could he say it for sure? In fact Kepco hasn’t applied appropriate safe measures. There is no vent with radioactive filter attached, and there is no earthquake-proof building which could serve as a command centre in an emergency. Kepco says they will build these within four years and raise the breakwater within two years. Also several earthquake specialists have suggested that the area might be an active fault zone. Furthermore, no appropriate disaster-prevention measures have been applied to the area within a 30 – km radius of the plant.
Most of Japanese people are really having enough of those false safety statements. There have been demonstrations in front of the Prime Minister’s residential office in Tokyo on every Friday evening since March. It’s getting bigger and bigger - 11,000 people on 15/6 and 45,000 people on 22/6. Yet no major media and TV don’t report it except Tokyo newspaper, Akahata shimbun and one of late night Asahi news TV program. NHK which is equivalent to BBC never reports it because it’s sponsor, electric companies don’t want them to do. Kepco, the owner is restarting the Oi Nuclear power plants on this coming Sunday (1/7/12). So this coming Friday demonstration is set to be even bigger. Also similar style of demonstration is happening in front of Kepco in Osaka-city in the west of Japan as well.
Please call Prime Minister's Office (+81 3-3581-0101, Japan is 8 hours ahead from UK) or write to place your opinion in his website https://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/forms/comment_ssl.html to support "Nuclear Free World".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m40PJZcWmVg&feature=related
Saika Do Hantai! No Restarting!!
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