Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations to call for “elimination of nuclear power generation”
Jul. 19, 2011
by Kohei Okata, Staff Writer
On July 13, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations held its executive board meeting in Tokyo and made the formal decision to add efforts to seek “the elimination of nuclear power generation” as part of its policy for this fiscal year. The organization will appeal to the Japanese government and electric companies to do away with nuclear power generation in Japan by phasing out and decommissioning nuclear reactors.
More specifically, the organization will demand: 1) withdrawing plans to build new nuclear power plants and expand existing nuclear power plants, and 2) shutting down and decommissioning nuclear reactors after thorough safety inspections of all existing nuclear power plants have been implemented, and formulating an annual plan for this purpose. A definite time frame for eliminating nuclear power generation from the nation has not been specified.
From here, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations will, as an organization, press the central government and electric companies with these demands while guiding its local factions in prefectures that host nuclear power plants to pursue concrete actions. It was also reported at the executive board meeting that the Ehime Prefecture Atomic Bomb Sufferers’ Association requested to the Shikoku Electric Power Company, in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) nuclear power plant, to shut down and decommission the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors of the Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture.
At the annual meeting of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations last month, in response to the nuclear accident in Fukushima Prefecture, participants rose one after the other to voice the view that such demands as the suspension of nuclear power plants be made an explicit request of the organization. The meeting produced the consensus that further steps should be taken beyond calling for “alternative energy sources to replace nuclear power generation,” which was stipulated in a draft of its policy for this fiscal year.
The two-day executive board meeting, which started on July 12, decided to establish a committee to be composed of doctors and lawyers, among others, in which the members will discuss how allowances and medical benefits should be provided, with the aim of giving shape to the organization’s requests for the revision of the Atomic Bomb Survivors Relief Law.
(Originally published on July 14, 2011)
On July 13, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations held its executive board meeting in Tokyo and made the formal decision to add efforts to seek “the elimination of nuclear power generation” as part of its policy for this fiscal year. The organization will appeal to the Japanese government and electric companies to do away with nuclear power generation in Japan by phasing out and decommissioning nuclear reactors.
More specifically, the organization will demand: 1) withdrawing plans to build new nuclear power plants and expand existing nuclear power plants, and 2) shutting down and decommissioning nuclear reactors after thorough safety inspections of all existing nuclear power plants have been implemented, and formulating an annual plan for this purpose. A definite time frame for eliminating nuclear power generation from the nation has not been specified.
From here, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations will, as an organization, press the central government and electric companies with these demands while guiding its local factions in prefectures that host nuclear power plants to pursue concrete actions. It was also reported at the executive board meeting that the Ehime Prefecture Atomic Bomb Sufferers’ Association requested to the Shikoku Electric Power Company, in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) nuclear power plant, to shut down and decommission the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors of the Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture.
At the annual meeting of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations last month, in response to the nuclear accident in Fukushima Prefecture, participants rose one after the other to voice the view that such demands as the suspension of nuclear power plants be made an explicit request of the organization. The meeting produced the consensus that further steps should be taken beyond calling for “alternative energy sources to replace nuclear power generation,” which was stipulated in a draft of its policy for this fiscal year.
The two-day executive board meeting, which started on July 12, decided to establish a committee to be composed of doctors and lawyers, among others, in which the members will discuss how allowances and medical benefits should be provided, with the aim of giving shape to the organization’s requests for the revision of the Atomic Bomb Survivors Relief Law.
(Originally published on July 14, 2011)
