Journalist talks about postquake A-bomb survivors at Iran confab
Jun. 13, 2011
The ongoing nuclear crisis at a quake-crippled power plant in Japan has spurred a new round of soul-searching among many survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing in Hiroshima, a Japanese journalist told a disarmament and nonproliferation conference in Tehran on Sunday.
Yumi Kanazaki, a reporter for the Hiroshima-headquartered Chugoku Shimbun, said some survivors now believe the world should seriously consider an international treaty to ban nuclear weapons to replace the existing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which centers on peaceful use of atomic power.
Kanazaki also told participants at the two-day conference hosted by the Iranian foreign ministry that there are many atomic-bombing survivors who feel disheartened because even though they have been calling for ''no more hibakusha (radiation victims),'' they were unable to prevent the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in which workers at the nuclear plant and local residents were exposed to radiation.
At the conference, participants from about 40 countries also discussed a denuclearized zone in the Middle East.
(Distributed by Kyodo News on June 13, 2011)
Yumi Kanazaki, a reporter for the Hiroshima-headquartered Chugoku Shimbun, said some survivors now believe the world should seriously consider an international treaty to ban nuclear weapons to replace the existing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which centers on peaceful use of atomic power.
Kanazaki also told participants at the two-day conference hosted by the Iranian foreign ministry that there are many atomic-bombing survivors who feel disheartened because even though they have been calling for ''no more hibakusha (radiation victims),'' they were unable to prevent the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in which workers at the nuclear plant and local residents were exposed to radiation.
At the conference, participants from about 40 countries also discussed a denuclearized zone in the Middle East.
(Distributed by Kyodo News on June 13, 2011)
