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Iitate-mura, Fukushima with mounts of radioactive soil in plastic bags Photo by a friend of mine in January, 2017.

It is six years since the Great Earthquake in Eastern Japan and the unprecedented nuclear disaster at Fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. The wheareabout of radioactive debris of three nuclear reactors is still unknown and it has never been "under control," discharging 10,000,000 becquerel per hour.




Although the situation of the melt-down reactors has not changed, the mindset of people in Japan seems to be changed. For most of them, the nuclear accident is something past, and they think everything is going OK, as the government says it's OK.

For the government and nuclear "mafia" earning tremendous money from nuclear industry, it is time to show the world that even after nuclear accidents people can live as they used to and nothing serious is going on. They are saying like, "you can keep living in your radioactively contaminated hometown if you like, and radioactive garbage can be recycled as other normal garbage. So don't worry about radioactivity and let's build more nuclear power plants around the world."

Do you think I am joking? I do hope so, but it is the reality in Japan, now.
Please visit the sites below and read the statements and explanations about the crisis we are now forced by Japanese government.

It is now in Japan, but it might happen in your country next.


** Urgent Petition: “No” to the Policy “To Use Contaminated Soil (Less than 8,000 becquerel/kg) for Public Works”—
Don't Contaminate the Environment, Don't Force Radiation Exposure on the Entire Population
http://www.foejapan.org/en/energy/doc/160427.html

** Stand in solidarity:  Defend the human rights of Fukushima survivors
https://act.greenpeace.org/page/6288/petition/1?en_chan=fb&mode=DEMO&ea.tracking.id=facebook&en_ref=34770595


News on Fukushima:
Govt. to lift more Fukushima evacuation orders
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20170310_09/





My friends and I had a candlelit event, "311 a prayer from Kobe" at the heart of Kobe city on the 11th of March, 2017. May there be no more sufferings because of nuclear disasters.