MDN Editorial: Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant must be shut down

[kristopher]

Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant must be shut down

Chubu Electric Power Co. should shut down its Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant. Its security standards no longer hold water, and I want Japan to become a country that can steadily overcome anticipated crises. This is the conclusion I reached after speaking with government officials in Tokyo following a brief tour of the Sanriku and Fukushima districts.

It was former Fukushima Gov. Eisaku Sato, 71, who first turned my attention toward the Hamaoka plant. When I met Sato in the Fukushima Prefecture city of Koriyama, I inquired about the nuclear crisis.

"Do you think this region is paying the price for the prosperity of the Tokyo metropolitan area?" I asked.

Without answering the question, he replied, "Rather than all that, it's Hamaoka we're worried about. The earthquakes anticipated in the Tokai region and Tokyo still haven't come, right?"

Sato served as governor ...

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20110418p2a00m0na007000c.html

[Gregorian]

1. Here is my suggestion- World leaders donate renewable energy generation facilities to Japan.

Japan is seeing a reduction in their power generation right now. And it is a time when repairing is happening. To facilitate the loss of even more generation, and to protect the world from even more poisonous isotopes escaping into the environment, it is of the interest of the those of us living on the entire planet to start turning off the nuclear plants.