Greenpeace Japan Cyberaction
No more Hiroshima Nagasaki
Stop the plutonium production plant at Rokkasho!
You can view images in the HTML version of this mail
if you cannot view the HTML version, please visit the following
http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/cyberaction/npt/mail_en_html?upd
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
Our campaigner, Atsuko Nogawa, needs your help to stop plutonium
production.
http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/cyberaction/npt/index_en_html?upd
"Once fully operational, the plant will produce weapons-usable
plutonium, which can be made into about 1,000 Nagasaki-type
nuclear bombs."
Sixty years after the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
the Rokkasho reprocessing plant is scheduled to soon begin separating
plutonium from Japan's spent nuclear fuel. Once fully operational,
the plant will produce weapons-usable plutonium, which can be made
into about 1,000 Nagasaki-type nuclear bombs.
Every time I visit Rokkasho plant, my heart breaks. It's in a quiet and
beautiful farming community with a population of about 12,000 people.
Once a famous fishing community, it is now known as a center of Japan's
nuclear fuel cycle.
"Why does this peaceful village need to shoulder such a burden?"
The radioactive discharge from Rokkasho will be similar to that of
discharge from the reprocessing plants in Europe, where radiation in
sampling revealed radiation levels to be thousands of times more
radioactive than background levels. Fully 82.5 % of the local population
including mothers with growing children, young and old feels unsafe in
regard to nuclear facilities.
I've met Hibakushas, nuclear bomb victims that were affected by the two
atomic bombs dropped on Japan. They still suffer today from various
forms of radiation sickness and unforgettable memory of the destruction.
"It is not possible to describe what I saw in Nagasaki", Mr. Okumura,
one of the Hibakushas, continued, "it was unlike anything I had seen
before August 9, 1945."
Can we allow more people in coming generations to continue to suffer
from the affect of radiation?
I need your help to stop this.
Please join the cyberaction and write emails to the Ministry of
ForeignAffairs and the Special Mission of Japan to the United Nations
to STOP ROKKASHO NOW!
http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/cyberaction/npt/action_en_html?upd