Japan is going to export nuclear power to Iraq and Vietnam with condition that Japan is going to have their nuclear waste.
(Editor's note)
How on earth Prime Minister Abe is going to solve the problem of nuclear waste of other countries. Japan has already accumulated more than enough nuclear waste from it's 54 reactors with no solution to deal with it.
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Documentary Criticizes Japan’s Export of Nuclear Technology
A documentary film that exposes the
effect of Japan nuclear technology on a small village in Vietnam will
be shown at this year’s Fukuoka Asian Film Festival. Shinobiyoru
Genpatsu (“Encroaching Nuclear Power Plant”) is a scathing
indictment against the government’s pursuit of exporting nuclear
technology to developing countries like Vietnam.
Documentary writer Shinsuke Nakai
visited a coastal village called Thai An in central Vietnam where a
nuclear plant will be built soon, with Japan lending its technology
and experience. The residents of the village, whose population is
around 2,000, told the filmmaker that they were not properly informed
about the dangers of nuclear power and its serious consequences, as
evidenced by the 2011 nuclear meltdown in Fukushima.
The nuclear plant to
be built is part of an agreement between the two nations, signed in
2010, wherein Japanese contractors will build two nuclear reactors in
Vietnam. The village head was invited by the Japanese to view a
nuclear power plant and he was showed that the reactors are “sealed”
and are quite safe. The villagers will only be relocating 1 kilometer
from where the plant will be built. Construction is scheduled to
begin sometime next year.
Nakai also filmed the residents of
Fukushima who were forced to evacuate and until now are displaced due
to the expected fallout from the meltdown. The film attempts to show
the difference and similarities between the two communities. It has
also been screened in western Japan, Tokyo and Nagoya for free.
Posted by Andrea Viski
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