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“Squeals of delight from environmentalists”: Japan will awake on May 6 powered entirely by non-nuclear energy — DPJ Lawmaker: “As many as half of us are against the idea of restart” — Public opposition running hot, now solid majority against nuclear power

Published: April 20th, 2012 at 2:05 pm ET
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Title: Fukushima Daiichi: Inside the debacle
Source: Fortune via CNN
Authors: Bill Powell and Hideko Takayama
Date: April 20, 2012: 5:00 AM ET

Public opposition to nuclear power now runs hot in Japan. Far from fading over the last year, opposition seems to have expanded to a solid majority of citizens nationwide, putting both Noda’s government and Japan’s big business community (which needs the electricity) in a very difficult spot. The reason for that is the debacle of Fukushima Daiichi—the six-reactor power station owned and operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) —and the many questions that still surround the terrifying events that began on March 11, 2011.

Title: Mayday for Japan’s nuclear industry
Source: The Australian
Author: Rick Wallace
Date: Apr 21, 2012

TO the squeals of delight from environmentalists – and howls of protest from industry – Japan will awake on the morning of May 6 a nation powered entirely by non-nuclear sources of energy.

[...] While the government is pushing all out for the Oi restart, Democratic Party of Japan insiders say it has deeply divided the ruling party.

Mr Matsushita’s press conference was attended by five DPJ MPs opposed to the restart.

DPJ MP Kuniko Tanioka said the restart was “unforgivable” and showed that the government was unduly influenced by the nuclear industry.

“Before we can talk about breaking with nuclear power generation, we need to break up the nuclear village in the parliament,” she said.

Another DPJ MP, Ben Hashimoto, said opposition within the party was growing. “I would say as many as half of us are against the idea of restart,” he said.

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58 comments to “Squeals of delight from environmentalists”: Japan will awake on May 6 powered entirely by non-nuclear energy — DPJ Lawmaker: “As many as half of us are against the idea of restart” — Public opposition running hot, now solid majority against nuclear power

  • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
    April 20, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    If Japan can keep them turned off, it will be in the record books….way ahead of China, Russia, US, and France.

    List Of Countries/Nations Closing Down ALL Nuclear Power Plants; via A Green Road Blog
    http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/list-of-countries-closing-down-all.html

    75% US Nuclear Plants Leaking Toxic Tritium Radiation Into Drinking Water Supply; via A Green Road Blog
    http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/75-us-nuclear-plants-leaking-toxic.html


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    • nedlifromvermont
      April 20, 2012 at 7:01 pm

      !! Even ahead of Germany, its onetime Axis ally. Japan needs to really lead … and it will be the women, because Japanese men are incapable of individual thought, it seems …

      Once bitten (Hiroshima) twice shy (Fukushima) JAPAN WAKE UP.

      Or … after proving such an unlikely "hero" at Hiroshima, the lowly atom revealed her true feelings about man messing with her stuff at FUK U shima …

      Brother Barack, why can't YOU get it right on nuclear after Fukushima? All governments hitching their sails to nuclear, post-Fukushima, will lose all credibility with their electorate (if they have to think about such a thing), and that's a fact.

      Leaders are supposed to LEAD and not blindly follow some pre-arranged deal. A leader needs to react to changes in circumstances, before it's too late, on the battlefield or in the realm of national industrial policy.

      If a leader such as BARACK OBAMA cannot CHANGE his POSITION on NUCLEAR POWER POST Fukushima, he does NOT DESERVE re-election. For WHY MIGHT YOU NOT PREFER A MITT ROMNEY WHO MIGHT JUST CHANGE HIS MIND? (Say it out loud and it's better.)

      Peace you loving fools … and out.


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      • anne anne
        April 20, 2012 at 7:31 pm

        If, after Fukushima, Mitt Romney can't run on an anti-nuclear platform, hoping that he will change his mind is naive at best. Republicans are always pro corporation, rip off the poor person, and destroy the environment.


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        • nedlifromvermont
          April 20, 2012 at 7:50 pm

          My posit, with rhyming couplet "Might prefer Mitt who might change …" is meant as rhetorical humor … with a helplessness twist … Might Mitt Might … and bring some focus onto the subject that the target is Barack. If he has been compromised by Big Nuclear to the degree he can't get this right … I mean how much patience with the man should/could we have.

          I know it's a bit sideways ……… but I'm trying to recast the debate here. The elephant in the room is Big Nuclear, their lies, their abuse of process; their big spending. If Barack is in Nuclear's thrall, a la Theoden of Rohan under Wormwood's spell, well, in such a hopeless situation, there is a glint of gallows humor in "Mitt might change his mind" … which can help get the primary message across. … a spoon full of sugar sort of thing. Just sayin' …


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          • jump-ball
            April 21, 2012 at 12:46 pm

            Maybe 'Decay-Heat-Management' will be the growth industry whose time has come, if it can be kept out of corrupt, congressional and administrative hands.

            If they don't ban guaranteed loans to corporate political supporters, I think our survival is in serious doubt.


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      • blackrain66
        April 20, 2012 at 9:00 pm

        two words

        RON PAUL

        say it out loud, it's even better

        mitt romney is just another puppet


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        • StillJill StillJill
          April 20, 2012 at 9:16 pm

          Yes blackrain66, many here like Ron Paul a lot,…and would love him to be president. :-)


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          • Ron
            April 20, 2012 at 10:00 pm

            Sorry, not me. Paul, like most if not all Libertarians are horrible on the environment. They are anti pretty much all regulation. Cato is a Libertarian "think-tank" and they are rabidly anti-environmental. Unfortunately today regulation is all we have to protect nature from the rapers and pillagers.


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            • yogda yogda
              April 21, 2012 at 12:00 am

              Do you understand the concept of Property Rights and Trespassing under the U.S. Constitution?

              At least get your story right about Ron Paul.

              Environmental laws would be much stricter on polluters under a Ron Paul Presidency, AND NO GOV SUBSIDIES!!


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        • CB CB
          April 21, 2012 at 12:24 am

          Can not see? Modern reality show type elections. The Jersey shores, the Kardashians, One liner presidents.
          These are not real men, but paid for puppets. The caliber of a man or women is not weighted in entertainment. Our next president is already paid for, do you not understand? Actors really.
          You do not really have a choice, a voice, or a vote.


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    • skizexq skizexq
      April 20, 2012 at 8:47 pm

      question is, Al, is this story for real? – or will we hear in a week or so how they are ready to start up THE REACTIONs – AGAIN.
      I want this to be real/but I have some serious doubts about this report.
      Kinda like GreenPeace' call for clear clouds (or was that IT realm?) when GP ignores the ENMOD aerosols pgms underway for the last 15 yrs.


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  • Flapdoodle Flapdoodle
    April 20, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    Does it occur to big business that you can't make a profit if there aren't any people left alive?


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  • AFTERSHOCK AFTERSHOCK
    April 20, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    So how ya gonna keep down on the farm?

    Can't wait to see how the MSM is going to spin this one! Maybe they'll announce something really important; like who got caught screwing whose wife behind the bleachers. Maybe some titillating revelation that Teebo is really a latent homosexual? C'mon! With all that brilliant brain power in the boardroom, you have but to lean back and stare at the blank ceiling for inspiration. You're the smart ones…aren't you?

    So keep up the good work boyz! With each passing day, you're effing-up any chance of regaining credibility with the public. And having done such a wonderful job of side-stepping the truth of Fukushima, now finds your children (and theirs if they survive) inheriting the taste of nuclear ashes.

    Now 'dems is good eat'n!!!


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  • Kevin Kevin
    April 20, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    Enviros often squeal with delight at times like these.

    You cant blame them really becuase there is little to be delighted about in contemporary environmental terms.

    However, any celebration at this time is premature.

    Save the high fives for when the cabal, bankers and government actually turn the page. Right now they are busy saving nuclear power.

    Rolling blackouts and other such fear mongering will force Japan to accept the will of the cabal and kick these babies back into gear.

    The shutdown has more to do with trying to salvage the damaged reactors and push all the actual impacts under the rug while at the same time proving Japans dependence on their carcinogen factories.

    Here isa recent Caldicott presentation posted at a blog where the blogster has the balls to talk plutonium.

    http://vicdesotelle.com/2012/04/13/plutonium-is-flowing-into-our-oceans-and-skies/


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  • Pu239 Pu239
    April 20, 2012 at 4:00 pm

    However, the real news here is that Fukey is snaking its way out of tinfoil-land and onto the bigscreens.

    The other news is the rest of us are still being killed off – some slow, some quick.

    Anyway, we have one senator and one major news outfit gradually waking up.


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  • AFTERSHOCK AFTERSHOCK
    April 20, 2012 at 4:17 pm

    "…we need to break up the nuclear village in the parliament,” is what it's all about. This is why it's imperative that any modern society maintain a well-informed populace; without which, only spineless scum end-up rising to the top. This challenge is facing all of us, throughout the world…


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    • What-About-The-Kids
      April 20, 2012 at 6:36 pm

      Spot on, Aftershock!

      Only through education and knowledge of the truth about the horrors of nuclear radiation, will we be able to counter these criminals who have no compunction about lying through their teeth to keep their bank accounts full.

      It starts at the top, with who decides what goes into the curriculum taught in our schools, as well as who controls the messaging of the mass media, the two main ways information has been "imparted" to the masses in the past. Obviously, those in decision-making capacities in the past have done us all a HUGE disservice, given our lack of awareness about these issues up until 3/11.

      All I can say is thank Goodness for the new information dissemination tool, social media. It is about time the people had such a wondrous and empowering tool. The "Controllers" of Information be damned!


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      • AFTERSHOCK AFTERSHOCK
        April 20, 2012 at 6:56 pm

        agreed What-About-The-Kids. I'd add that they are now attempting to generate fear within the online community, that we're all being monitored and profiled. This is nothing more than a ploy. They're lost control of the propaganda machine. But we should all be aware that when this happens, they usually move to false flag operations to get their way. So, we must all be suspicious of anyone who suggests aggressive tactics.

        Sad reality is, if none of us or this site existed, nuclear power would continue to sink. They're learning that you can suppress the truth, but that doesn't change reality…


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  • TheBigPicture TheBigPicture
    April 20, 2012 at 4:18 pm

    They must decommission the plants now. Nuclear let everyone down. It failed.


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  • jayjay jayjay
    April 20, 2012 at 5:00 pm

    OFF TOPIC BUT have any of you seen this?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/donald-trump-bohemian-rhapsody_n_1386392.html

    Read more here:
    http://www.facebook.com/embracemyplanet

    Sorry don't comment much, but visit web site every day, it is such a source of information exposing the FALSE GOD of NUCLEAR POWER. Regularly put links to articles here, regarding the horror's of Nuclear Power.

    Thank you all.


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  • xdrfox
    April 20, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    You folks in Japan have worked for this, .. many long and hard! I am so sorry the joy will be tainted with the on going tragedies now and coming !
    A Victory to keep from being poisoned should have never had to be fought !
    Maybe you will lead the rest of the world to sanity !


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  • daddyfixit daddyfixit
    April 20, 2012 at 6:03 pm

    so explain what they will replace nuclear power with? coal?

    btw, off topic… hooked up my RO machine today, it is making water now, leaks all over the place but hey… what's a leak compared to piece of mind that my daughter has clean water!

    also… what are the particulate size that i should be looking to filter? i want to filter tritium from FPL and fallout from FUKU, as well as bromine (which is in the water in miami-dade county). what do i need to look for as an air filter as well? this cabon filter cartridge sais 10 nm, but there are 2 filters then an RO membrane as well…

    can we PM eachother on this site? would be nice.


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    • What-About-The-Kids
      April 20, 2012 at 6:26 pm

      Good for you, DaddyFixIt! Way to be proactive!

      From what I understand, Tritium, being a Hydrogen molecule (H3) is so much like water (H2O) that you cannot filter it out of water. Lovely, hmmm?

      The EPA's website states the only solution is dilution…Gosh, given the fact that ALL NPPs leak tritium in the air via steam and tritiated water from/their pipes into the surrounding ground water, I guess the nukers forgot to do the "projections" and "assumptions" they so love to do regarding a future day when all the fresh, uncontaminated ground water has been used up and there is no uncontaminated water left to dilute our drinking water with…

      Smart thinking, guys! But hey, NRC, just continue to approve the relicensing of these leaking ancient dinosaurs and let's all build more so we can speed up the process of nuking our drinking water supplies!

      /end sarc but NOT an end to my disgust and anger at these criminals who are either stupid or insane or both! :-(


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      • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
        April 21, 2012 at 1:37 am

        True. Filtering Tritium = impossible.


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        • MaidenHeaven MaidenHeaven
          April 21, 2012 at 2:26 am

          Wanted to add RE: Tritium, not only can it NOT be filtered it does NOT dilute in water either. NASA traced Tritium from Bomb fallouts in the 60's to how far it moved in 20 years in the ocean.

          Once released, much of the tritium becomes part of the water cycle. Falling to earth as radioactive rain and snow, it accumulates in the environment. Freezing, melting, evaporating, and raining down again, it seeps into groundwater and flows into streams, lakes, rivers, aquifers, and oceans. It is also taken up by all living organisms.

          Radioactive tritium became a perfect marker for tracking ocean water §. Scientists sampling North Atlantic water found that tritium released into the atmosphere before the 1962 nuclear test ban treaty, mixed downward by 1973. By 1980, the same tritium had moved into deep areas off Florida. The water had taken about 20 years to travel 3000 miles (4800 km) through the sea at an average speed of less than half a mile a day, about half the speed of a snail §.
          http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_currents_3.html


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    • AFTERSHOCK AFTERSHOCK
      April 20, 2012 at 6:31 pm

      @daddyfixit: Now that we know nuclear power has been so heavily subsidized by all of us over these last six decades, could we not divert a portion of those funds towards alternative energy systems? And while we're at it, let's apportion those same funds towards advanced alternative energy systems R&D and conservation incentives. Whatever is leftover can go towards environmental remediation; cleaning up the thousands of toxic nuclear waste sites that were quietly imposed on our – once – beautiful planet.

      BTW. your RO is springing leaks because you didn't terminate the hose-ends properly. You need to plastic tube cutter that's designed for clean-cutting. If the tubes are not perfectly cut, they won't seat properly within the fittings…


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    • xdrfox
      April 20, 2012 at 6:53 pm

      daddyfixit,
      Your question has been answered on articles here and links many gave provided or you can do a search !

      Let's 'NOT be Negative' but grateful they are doing it and 55 of the 56 reactors are off line and the last one set to go off line next month !


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  • Pu239 Pu239
    April 20, 2012 at 6:36 pm

    Is Fukushima's Doomsday Machine About to Blow?
    http://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-Fukushima-s-Doomsday-Ma-by-Mike-Whitney-120420-44.html

    Mounting troubles at Japan's hobbled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant now pose a real threat to human survival. If the area in which Unit 4 is struck by another 7.0 magnitude earthquake, there's a 70 percent chance that "the entire fuel pool structure will collapse" and massive doses of lethal nuclear radiation will be released into the atmosphere.

    The disaster would release approximately "134 million curies is Cesium-137 — roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at Chernobyl as estimated by the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP)." Experts believe that the amounts are sufficient to "destroy the world environment and our civilization," which makes containment "an issue of human survival." ("The Greatest Single Threat to Humanity: Fuel Pool Number 4," Washington's blog)


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  • nedlifromvermont
    April 20, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    Guess that's about the size of it.

    It all really must have seemed like such a good idea at the time …

    The utter irony … build a bomb to stop the Hitler fascists (Einstein) and inherit a fascist, bomb-crazy, nuclear mililtary state, owned by the guys making the excess profits off the nuclear fascist business model … with a little less anti-semitism, replaced by utter contempt for all life on this pretty planet, including one's own. Am I missing something?

    I'm glad you all are here to help me through this puzzle.

    Peace.


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  • Blown Camaro
    April 20, 2012 at 7:38 pm

    GREAT NEWS, Shut them all down. Nothing in the history of the earth cause more long-term pollution than Nuclear power generation. Nothing is more dangerous or unhealthy.


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  • arclight arclight
    April 20, 2012 at 9:45 pm

    I AM GOING TO GET DRUNK AND NOT POST ANYTHING ON THAT DAY EXCEPT FOR THE ODD SMILEY!! NO NUKES!!

    what about the scientific and medical reactors ?? ummm?

    maybe i will have to wait for that drink??

    :)


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  • Ron
    April 20, 2012 at 9:51 pm

    Unbelievable, but I guess it's a testament to industry propaganda that almost half of the population of Japan still supports nuclear.


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  • NoNukes NoNukes
    April 21, 2012 at 1:05 am

    Why?

    Why are all the nuclear reactors shut down in Japan?

    Why and how this happened has really never been properly explained.

    There is more to this story, and I bet that it is not good news. These nuclear types never fold this quickly.


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