Antinuclear

Australians in nuclear protest at Hiroshima events, Straits Times, SYDNEY 7 Aug 11, – “..Australians turned out on Saturday to rally against nuclear power following Japan’s Fukushima reactor crisis, at events to commemorate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II.

Denis Doherty, from Australia’s Hiroshima Day Committee, said about 400 people turned out to mark the 66th anniversary of the Hiroshima strike in Sydney and there were similar events at major cities across the nation.

Mr Doherty said the event saw its biggest crowds in several years and had special relevance, given the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan which was triggered by March’s earthquake and tsunami.

‘I think people are coming to the realisation that (nuclear) is not the answer to climate change,’ Mr Doherty told AFP.

‘On all sorts of levels I think something is dawning, and if not it should be.’ Mr Doherty said the Fukushima incident had rattled the world, evoking memories of Hiroshima with images of ‘ordinary people’ suffering. ‘People are starting to think, the cost of 30 years of electricity – was it worth giving a whole lot of people radiation-induced cancer and destroying large sections of Japanese countryside?’ he said……..http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_699304.html