Tag Archives: Naoto Kan

‘FUKUSHIMA: ONGOING LESSONS:’ Not in the playbook via Wicked Local Plymouth

Posted on 2013/10/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

PLYMOUTH — At first there was little to suggest that Wednesday’s Statehouse forum, titled “Fukushima: Ongoing Lessons for Boston,” might provide anything new to the debate over the general safety of nuclear power or the specific viability of Plymouth’s Pilgrim … Continue reading →

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Former NRC Chair: Emergency Plans Won’t Protect Residents from Radiation via Huffington Post

Posted on 2013/10/08 by norma field

Gregory Jaczko, who led the five-member commission during the triple meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station and resigned last year after intense clashes with the industry and the other four commissioners, said in a wide-ranging interview that: Emergency plans … Continue reading →

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【events】THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT: ONGOING LESSONS FOR BOSTON & NEW YORK via Coalition Against Nukes

Posted on 2013/10/07 by norma field

RALPH NADER TO JOIN FORMER JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER NAOTO KAN AND OTHERS FOR NUCLEAR PANEL DISCUSSIONS Seminars to focus on ongoing lessons from Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear catastrophe and the future of nuclear power in New York and Boston Seminar Tuesday, Oct. … Continue reading →

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Reports that no one will face charges over Fukushima nuclear disaster via abc news

Posted on 2013/08/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

SCOTT BEVAN: In Japan, there are reports that prosecutors will lay no charges over the Fukushima nuclear disaster, two-and-a-half years ago. Now that’s despite a parliamentary committee finding that the meltdowns of three of the plant’s reactors constituted a ‘manmade’ … Continue reading →

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Kan hits Abe’s nuclear salesmanship via The Japan Times

Posted on 2013/06/17 by norma field

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is engaging in “inhumane” activity as an aggressive “salesman for Japan’s nuclear village” by peddling the power technology overseas, Naoto Kan, who was in charge of the nation during the mega-earthquake, tsunami and nuclear calamity in … Continue reading →

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The Fukushima Daiichi Disaster: Ongoing Lessons for California via Friends of the Earth

Posted on 2013/06/06 by norma field

Former Japanese Prime Minister Naota Kan warned today that restarting the damaged San Onofre nuclear reactor is driven by the same industrial and regulatory forces in the United States that are seeking the restart of Japanese nuclear reactors. He told … Continue reading →

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Kan: Only nuclear-free society can avoid accidents via NHK World

Posted on 2013/06/05 by norma field

Japan’s former prime minister Naoto Kan says the only way to completely avert nuclear accidents is to build a society that can do without nuclear power. Kan made the comment on Tuesday at a seminar in San Diego, California. It … Continue reading →

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San Diego hosts famous skeptics of nuclear safety  via U-T San Diego

Posted on 2013/06/03 by norma field

Several key figures in the recent history of nuclear power — including the former Japanese prime minister who presided over the Fukushima disaster two years ago — are scheduled to speak at a public event Tuesday in downtown San Diego. … Continue reading →

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Power Politics: Japan’s Resilient Nuclear Village via The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

Posted on 2012/11/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] As I argued in early September in a lengthy analysis of “Japan’s Nuclear Village”, the deck is stacked in favor of the pro-nuclear advocates of the nuclear village and it is unlikely that public opposition will trump the networks … Continue reading →

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DPJ vow for next poll: a nuclear phaseout via The Japan Times

Posted on 2012/08/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Role for Kan urged to draft pre-election energy goals Kyodo Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s party is arranging to make a nuclear phaseout a key policy pledge in the next general election, sources in the Democratic Party of Japan said. The … Continue reading →

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