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Fukushima Rally outside parliament March 2019


Peace campaigners from Bromley joined others from all over the UK in a Rally outside Parliament on 16/3/2019 to mark the 8th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. On the 11/3/2011, a powerful earthquake and a tsunami caused meltdown in three reactors at the Daiichi nuclear power plant.
18200 people died in the disaster and 42000 people were evacuated. Not forgetting those whose life expectancy has been cut short because of radiation exposure.
Despite the Japanese government’s declaration that the decontamination process is a great success, very few evacuees returned to their homes in the region so far.
The cleanup operation underway in Fukushima produced several million tons of contaminated soil so far with nowhere to store.

Ann Garrett the secretary of Bromley Borough CND said: “Chernobyl and Fukushima are lessons we cannot ignore about the very high environmental and human cost of nuclear power. We must also remember nuclear energy is very expensive to produce even without disasters.”
CND is also worried about the close links between nuclear power and nuclear weapons such as Depleted Uranium munitions deployed and used by the UK in two wars on Iraq, leaving behind a legacy of environmental contamination and unprecedented increase in childhood cancers in that country.
“Such disasters are a wake up call to us all, we should be investing in clean renewable energy in our battle against Climate Change, not in the nuclear industry. We have the expertise and know how, we owe it to our children to leave them a safe clean planet behind" added Ms Garrett.

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