Man arrested for landing drone on Shinzo Abe's office in nuclear protest

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Source: Guardian

A Japanese man has been arrested for landing a drone on the prime minister’s office with a minuscule amount of radiation in an apparent protest against the use of nuclear power, four years after the Fukushima disaster.

Unemployed Yasuo Yamamoto, 40, who lives in Fukui Prefecture in western Japan, was arrested on Friday and charged with obstruction of official business, police said.

The maximum penalty is three years in prison or a 500,000 yen (£2,770) fine.

Media reported that Yamamoto turned himself in at a police station in Fukui and said he landed the drone as a protest against nuclear power.


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/25/man-arrested-for-landing-drone-on-shinzo-abes-office-in-nuclear-protest

[bananas]

1. "Yamamoto said he put radioactive sand that he got from Fukushima in a container on the drone"

[christx30]

3. Reminds me of when Mr. Burns was running for Congress

on the Simpsons. He kept saying that his plant was safe. Marge put the three eyed fish on his plate at dinner. Campaign over.

[KoKo]

2. This is what happens....

When governments don't listen to their people. Fukushima is an ongoing disaster now leaking into the Pacific. Sometimes a desperate action by one person calling attention to an issue without harming anyone but being clever enough to focus on delivering the message in a way that will call international attention to an important issue. Combining drone action with Fukushima radiated sand is a pretty powerful global message.

[Art_from_Ark]

4. Fukui, like Fukushima, is home to several nuclear reactors

including Monju, a fast-breeder MOX-fuel reactor that has been plagued with problems. Although the plant has been shut down, there have been a few test-runs since the 2011 Fukushima accident, and perhaps this is related somehow to the drone story.