Right now, our Japanese government is rushing to restart 10 of the idled nuclear power reactors by summer time.
3 years have passed since 3.11, but the disaster is still far from over. Residents in Fukushima area, including children and workers at the nuclear power plant, are still being exposed to radiation.
It has been 3 years since the melt down in Fukushima. All of the 54 existing nuclear power plants in Japan have been shut down by Sep. 2013 for mentenance. Since after, we have carried on. We have found enough electricity from other sources.
We have proved to the world , and to ourselves, that we have do not need to take the huge risk of nuclear power, an energy sustained at the cost of many lives - from its beginnings in unsafe uranium mining to consequences at the nuclear plant operation.
Contamination continues to spread out, and the problem is not just contained wkthin Fukushima or Japan. An immeasurable amount of contaminated water is leaking into the groundwater and the ocean.
This disaster is also not limited to those alive today: nuclear waste produced will last over 100,000 years! How can one generation alone decide to burden all the future with a poisonous legacy?
To protect lives, to protect children, we cannnot restart idled nuclear power plants. We cannot protect our children, or our lives, without a world-wide appeal.
To protect the future, we have stood up as the Million Mothers.
We invite you to join us. Help us to build a global movement.
From wherever you are, please raise your voice against the restarting of the nuclear plants in Japan.
Please appeal to the Japanese government;
1. to bring the annual radiation exposure limit back to the international standard of 1 mSv.
2. not to restart the nuclear power plants in Japan, a place with such a high number of earthquakes.
Dear people in the world, please, lend us a hand.
The Million Mothers
*"The Million Mothers" is a network of people, of all age and gender, who share a "motherly concern" to protect and treasure the lives of children. Anyone is welcome to join us.
