Another huge anti nuclear demonstration in Japan - There is Enough Electricity in Japan without Restarting Oi Nuclear power plants!

The Japanese government insisted that there would not be enough electricity to meet domestic demand without restarting the Oi Nuclear power plant.  They even said that without nuclear power, deaths might occur in hospitals, which rely on electricity, and this was reported as being the main reason why local governors in the Osaka area agreed to the restart.  How can the government and Prime Minister Noda keep repeating this sort of complete nonsense.    Hospitals have backup power systems for emergencies.   Also, although it is very hot in Japan at the moment, there is more than enough electricity; actually there was about 10% surplus without nuclear power when it became very hot in mid-July even after eight thermal power stations had been shut down soon after the nuclear restart.

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http://www.windfarm.co.jp/blog/blog_kaze/post-11289

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/mayumilehr/e/e6e48152752b3f4515d5210c13a1cb86    

Even though two of the reactors at the Oi Nuclear power station have been restarted, Japanese citizens haven’t given up.  This citizens’ demo in front of the Prime Minister’s residential office started with 300 people in March, reaching 200,000 and filling up the pavement and the road near the office just before the Oi reactors were restarted three weeks ago.  Since then, the same number of citizens has been trying to get there every Friday evening.  Despite the difficulties posed by tight control by policemen barricading the area, putting up steel fences between the road and the pavement, and closing three out of four of the exits of the subway stations  nearest to the office, the demo is set to continue and has spread throughout Japan.  Yesterday, thirty different places in Japan held anti-nuclear demos.  On July 16^th, 170,000 people, assembled for a ' Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants - 10 million Rally ' in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo.  This group has collected 7.8million signatures.  More and more Japanese citizens are becoming aware of the deceits perpetrated on them by the government and globally-interconnected nuclear power groups and feel need of expressing of their opinions.

Freelance Japanese journalist Mr. Iwakami mentioned in a recent lecture that when Prime Minister Noda visited US President Obama this April, he promised further US-Japan cooperation based on the nuclear power business without public consent (more than 80% of Japanese citizens don’t want nuclear).  Former Prime Ministers Hatoyama and Kan have been urging Mr. Noda to talk to citizen’s groups face to face, but despite the growing number of anti-nuclear demonstrators, so far he has been refused.