Antinuclear

10, 000 delegates at Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World, at Yokohama

The organisers, want to seize the moment to mobilise others across borders and generations and phase out nuclear power around the world. “Now is the time to start to discuss how to reduce nuclear dependency and promote natural energy for future society,” Tatsuya Yoshioka, chair of the conference 

Anti-nuclear meeting offers lessons learned from Fukushima Business Recorder, JANUARY 14, 2012 TAKEHIKO KAMBAYASHI  Rebecca Harms, a European Parliament member from Germany, was braced for severe power shortages on arriving in Japan, with only six of the nation’s 54 nuclear reactors in service, but was shocked to find wasted electricity all over the country.

The country, which experienced the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years, “is wasting electricity everywhere,” a heated toilet seats and garish neon signs to large air heaters outside hotel entrances, said Harms, co-president of the Greens in the European Parliament. “It was really astonishing,” said Harms, who is among speakers at a weekend anti-nuclear conference in Yokohama, south of Tokyo.

Her critical observation seems to typify what organisers of the
conference want to share with participants in order to deal with
various issues including future energy and radioactive contamination
after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station…..
The weekend event titled Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free
World to be held in Yokohama has dozens of experts, activists and
lawmakers from Japan and abroad and is expected to draw more than
10,000 people.

The international conference is mainly organised by non-governmental
organisations and research centres in Japan such as Peace Boat, Green
Action, Citizens’ Nuclear Information Centre, FoE Japan, Greenpeace
Japan and the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies….. The
organisers, want to seize the moment to mobilise other across borders
and generations and phase out nuclear power around the world.
“Now is the time to start to discuss how to reduce nuclear dependency
and promote natural energy for future society,” Tatsuya Yoshioka,
chair of the conference and director of Peace Boat, told a news
conference in Tokyo.
http://www.brecorder.com/articles-a-letters/single/626/187/1142510/

January 14, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized