Tens of thousands of people overran a park in Tokyo urging Japan to abandon nuclear power as the country prepares to restart another reactor, which was shut down among 50 others following last year’s meltdown at Fukushima.
Temperatures sweltering, the Yoyogi Park failed to accommodate all the rally participants from all over Japan, who were waving banners “Goodbye Nuclear Plants” and “The Nuclear Era is Over” while chanting “No Nuclear.”
“If we don’t do anything and stay silent, it means we agree in restarting the nuclear plants,” said the protesters, led by Nobel-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe.
Organizers put the number of attendees at 170,000-200,000; this makes the demonstration the largest in 50 years. Over 7.4 million signatures have been collected for a petition demanding a phase-out for nuclear power.
All of Japan’s 50 working nuclear reactors had been offline since the tsunami-generated disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in spring 2011. A meltdown at the facility caused evacuation of over 150,000 people from a 20-km zone around the epicenter over contamination fears; the area is considered unsafe for living for years to come. Full story + photos...
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Temperatures sweltering, the Yoyogi Park failed to accommodate all the rally participants from all over Japan, who were waving banners “Goodbye Nuclear Plants” and “The Nuclear Era is Over” while chanting “No Nuclear.”
“If we don’t do anything and stay silent, it means we agree in restarting the nuclear plants,” said the protesters, led by Nobel-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe.
Organizers put the number of attendees at 170,000-200,000; this makes the demonstration the largest in 50 years. Over 7.4 million signatures have been collected for a petition demanding a phase-out for nuclear power.
All of Japan’s 50 working nuclear reactors had been offline since the tsunami-generated disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in spring 2011. A meltdown at the facility caused evacuation of over 150,000 people from a 20-km zone around the epicenter over contamination fears; the area is considered unsafe for living for years to come. Full story + photos...
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