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Anti-nuclear protests mark three months since quake
Thousands of people staged anti-nuclear rallies in cities across Japan Saturday, as the country marks three months since the devastating earthquake and ensuing Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.
AFP - Japan on Saturday marked three months since its massive quake-tsunami and resulting nuclear crisis, amid simmering public frustration over the government's slow response to the catastrophe.
Thousands of people staged anti-nuclear rallies in Tokyo and other cities as radiation continued to leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, some 220 kilometres (140 miles) northeast of the capital.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan, under heavy pressure to step down, visited part of the disaster zone where 23,500 people were killed or are still unaccounted for while 90,000 others remained holed up in crowded shelters.
Several thousand demonstrators, some carrying placards reading: "We don't want nuclear power plants" marched past the head office of the Fukushima plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), in a rally organised online by the Japan Congress against Atomic and Nuclear Bombs.
But dozens of apparently right-wing activists, some of them holding the military rising-sun flag, jeered at them from the roadside. "Shut up, anti-nuclear advocates who have no counterproposal," one of their placards read.
TEPCO, once the world's biggest utility, has seen its share price plunge more than 90 percent since the March 11 disaster.
A minute's silence was observed at various places nationwide at 2:46 pm (0546 GMT), the moment the 9.0-magnitude quake struck below the Pacific seafloor sending monster waves over the country's northeastern Tohoku region.
"It is time to shift to renewable energy sources," Greenpeace director Kumi Naidoo told a rally at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park before they took to the streets holding sunflowers and gerbera daisies.
Media reports said that around 100 anti-nuclear events were staged nationwide, including in the western cities of Osaka and Hiroshima, which was devastated by a US atomic bomb in 1945.
The prime minister attended a meeting with leaders in the port town of Kamaishi on ways to improve survivors' lives while newspaper editorials criticised his government's handling of the calamity.
"I am determined to turn what I heard today into relief measures including a supplementary budget," Kan told the meeting.
The mass-circulation Yomiuri Shimbun said his government's assistance to disaster-hit communities "has been insufficient."
"The removal of rubble has been overly delayed. Construction of makeshift housing for evacuees has yet to get on the right track," it said.
Rebuilding the muddy wastelands of the Tohoku region -- an area now covered in 25 million tonnes of rubble -- will take up to a decade and cost hundreds of billions of dollars, experts say.
A 20-kilometre (12-mile) no-go zone has been enforced around the Fukushima nuclear plant, which emergency crews hope to bring into stable "cold shutdown" between October and January.
Environmental and anti-nuclear group Greenpeace called on Japan this week to evacuate children and pregnant women from Fukushima town, about 60 kilometres from the stricken plant, because of what it said was high radiation.
Since the disaster, Japan has raised the legal exposure limit for people, including children, from one to 20 millisieverts per year -- matching the safety standard for nuclear industry workers in many countries.
In the wake of the disaster, Kan has said resource-poor Japan will review its energy policy, including its plans for more nuclear reactors, while making solar and other alternative energies new pillars of its energy mix.
"Its assistance to disaster-hit local governments has been insufficient," the mass-circulation Yomiuri Shimbun said.
"The removal of rubble has been overly delayed. Construction of makeshift housing for evacuees has yet to get on the right track."
Rebuilding the muddy wastelands of the northeastern Tohoku region -- an area now covered in 25 million tons of rubble -- will take up to a decade and cost hundreds of billions of dollars, say experts.
A 20-kilometre (12-mile) no-go zone has been enforced around the Fukushima nuclear plant, which emergency crews hope to bring into stable "cold shutdown" between October and January.
Environmental and anti-nuclear group Greenpeace called on Japan this week to evacuate children and pregnant women from Fukushima town, about 60 kilometres from the stricken plant, because of what it said was high radiation.
Since the disaster, Japan has raised the legal exposure limit for people, including children, from one to 20 millisieverts per year -- matching the safety standard for nuclear industry workers in many countries.
Greenpeace is among organisers of the anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo.
Aside from their "Energy Shift Parade" in Tokyo, more anti-nuclear rallies were planned nationwide, including in the western cities of Osaka and Hiroshima, which was devastated by a US atomic bomb in 1945.
Protesters also planned a Tokyo demonstration against embattled nuclear plant operator the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), once the world's biggest utility, whose share price has plunged more than 90 percent.
In the wake of the disaster, Kan has said resource-poor Japan will review its energy policy, including its plans for more nuclear reactors, while making solar and other alternative energies new pillars of its energy mix.
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why DONT YOU REPORT ABOUT ANTI NUCLEAR DEMO IN PARIS !!!!!
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11 juin journée d’action internationale
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-> Anti Nuclear Demo: 11 June 2011, Departure: République, Paris, FRANCE - 20 Nuclear Reactors Earthquake Zone France >8,5/Flooding Zone due to Global Warming !
–> Anti Atomkraft Demo PARIS am 11. Juni 2011 um 14h30, Treffpunkt: République, Paris, Frankreich
- 20 Atomreaktoren ERDBEBENGEBIET Frankreich - 20 Atomreaktoren !!!!!!
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Rechtzeitig Busse und Mitfahrgelegenheiten von Deutschland organisieren. Diese Demo ist die WICHTIGSTE Anti Atom Demo im Moment in Frankreich weil DIREKT in Paris.
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Please arrive 2-3 days earlier in Paris to post thousands of A6 Demo-Flyers EVERYWHERE in Paris....merci !!
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Nuclear Plants in Earthquake Area (7,0-8,0) in France:
Centrale Fessenheim 2 Réacteurs (=Oberrheingraben)
Centrale Bugey 4 Réacteurs (Major Fault Line! African/European Plate)
Centrale St-Alban 2 Réacteurs (Major Fault Line! African/European Plate)
Centrale Cruas 4 Réacteurs (Major Fault Line! African/European Plate)
Centrale Tricastin 4 Réacteurs (Major Fault Line! African/European Plate)
Centrale Marcoule 4 Réacteurs (Major Fault Line! African/European Plate)
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe...p;v=Nm_seFPIiIo
http://appeldefukushima.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/250159_1741373359728...
www.sortirdunucleaire.org/carte/
Nuclear Plants in Earthquake Area (7,0-8,0) in Switzerland:
Centrale Beznau (Major Fault Line African Plate/European Plate)
Centrale Gösgen (Major Fault Line African Plate/European Plate)
Centrale Mühleberg (Major Fault Line African Plate/European Plate)
Centrale Leibstadt (Major Fault Line African Plate/European Plate)
www.facebook.com/sortirdunucleaire75#!/photo.php?fbid=167832133270055&set=pu.163293117057290&type=1&theater
www.facebook.com/sortirdunucleaire75#!/photo.php?fbid=174137335972868&set=pu.163293117057290&type=1&theater
Professeur Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Seismologie:
www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/wib/1415689/
Christchurch Earthquake Feb 2011, Magnitute 6,3:
www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/videos
www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/photos
www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34540/1.html
www.greenpeace.de/fileadmin/gpd/user_upload/themen/energie/DerPlan.pdf
www.greenpeace.de/themen/energie/nachrichten/artikel/greenpeace_legt_pla...
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La France a 20 Reacteurs et ARMES NUCLEAIRE dans la plus dangereuse region sismique. Super-GAU en France = 1 Million annes evacuation !
3)
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If we have to stop we stop in the MIDDLE of a city AND MAKE NOISE - we ALWAYS MAKE NOISE IF WE ARE IN EVERY CITY -
we are very very very Noisy !!!!!!
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4)
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avec un Super-GAU absolument catastrophale !!!
Centrale de Nucleaire Mayak:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8k5kuQzwIc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCE1Fyh-jPE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR1wo5s3Ua4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwwb8rTZgI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV3OffPZJs0&NR=1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwwb8rTZgI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayak
Centrale de Nucleaire Hanford:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcmboc-y-fY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFF-BiAUCKw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZfdWz1ZP4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ2qGPhjBRg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aETpg6TmswQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRVZBKGTIIU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPydmupt38U&feature=related
Centrale de Nucleaire Three Mile Island
MELTDOWN AT THREE MILE ISLAND" (PART 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLPAigMuBk0&feature=related
MELTDOWN AT THREE MILE ISLAND" (PART 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUaywLEEN9U&feature=related
MELTDOWN AT THREE MILE ISLAND" (PART 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O67dw-5MNlQ&feature=related
MELTDOWN AT THREE MILE ISLAND" (PART 4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv-sV5zfmhM&feature=related
MELTDOWN AT THREE MILE ISLAND" (PART 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAd8eSxr1Y0&feature=related
MELTDOWN AT THREE MILE ISLAND" (PART 6)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X7fi6spyXo&feature=related
Centrale de Nucleaire Windscale:
Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster - Part 01
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElotW9oKv1s&feature=related
Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster - Part 02
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEs1qLPFlEc&feature=related
Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster - Part 03
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1XApkJDOPU&feature=related
Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster - Part 04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k7jGpISmUM&feature=related
Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster - Part 05
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW6FQj66lc4&feature=related
Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster - Part 06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xULwqKOaAFs&feature=related
Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster - Part 07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfu4hQkKexw&feature=related
Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster - Part 08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIKuWW9FUwY&feature=related
Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster - Part 09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Svbtz9rihU&feature=related
Centrale de Nucleaire Selafield:
BBC Sellafield Disaster Breaking News video starts at 1 minute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMedccW4zmw&feature=related
Greenpeace investigates nuclear waste at Sellafield, 1994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49_IU4wzVG8&feature=related
Centrale de Nucleaire Tchernobyl:
Brilliant Greenpeace video on Chernobyl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u_8frR0IpE&feature=related
liquidators of chernobyl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8oVzYCBqNA&feature=related
Chernobyl "Liquidators" or "Biorobots"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH7ot08Y3ms&feature=related
Chernobyl "Biorobots" Part-1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zx739LOE8U&feature=related
Chernobyl "Biorobots" Part-2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ob7fVTXdtk&feature=related
Chernobyl The Lost Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkjAAzkrXSA&feature=related
Surviving Disaster Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQJO0VKxmuU&feature=related
Disaster at Chernobyl part 2 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe_sD7bPSvg&feature=related
Disaster at Chernobyl part 3 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEO9JAMfWUc&feature=related
Disaster at Chernobyl part 4 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLlrxplNnbI&feature=related
Disaster at Chernobyl part 5 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwEIX4KU7r8&feature=related
Disaster at Chernobyl part 6 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iDqzsTb3OM&feature=related
Children of Chernobyl - 49min. documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COvUwn6yxFc&feature=fvwrel
Heroes of Chernobyl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elCRiHo8wnY&feature=related
Surviving Disaster - Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster [Part 4/6]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg58cwj0Q0o&feature=related
Surviving Disaster - Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster [Part 5/6]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkqrhSiIADQ&feature=related
Chernobyl. Pripyat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ouMiTmy-o&feature=related
Chernobyl....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUvbH9H1Iqg&feature=related
I ask the French People to START DEMONSTRATING IN FRONT OF THE FRENCH PARLIAMENT TODAY.
STAY IN FRONT OF THE FRENCH PARLIAMENT UNTIL THEY HAVE SWITCHED OFF THE LAST NUCLEAR REACTOR AND
DISMANTLED THE LAST NUCLEAR BOMB !!!!
France has 300 Nuclear Bombs in the EARTHQUAKE ZONE IN THE FRENCH ALPS, each one x100 Tchernobyl !!
5) Village de Protest Anti Nucleaire PERMANENT avant Tour Eiffel, Paris
= #15M = #Spanishrevolution = #YESWECAMP
Anti Nuclear PROTEST VILLAGE PERMANENT in front of the Tour Eiffel, Paris
= #15M = #Spanishrevolution = #YESWECAMP
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