Fukushima is still leaking radiation into the sea and seems likely
to remain doing so for the foreseeable future
There are protest vigils outside the Japanese embassy every week
This protest was on the 8th anniversary of the disaster in 2011
People handed out leaflets to passers by
Nuclear power is inherently dangerous and even without and mishaps
creates large amounts of highly dangerous
waste which has to be safely stored for perhaps a thousand years.
We don't really have technology to do this safely.
Nuclear material is highly hazardous, and remains so for many years.
Our nuclear energy program was essentially military, for producing
H-bombs, but dressed up as a civil programme
Rev Sister Yoshie Maruta is the Chief Nun at the Nipponzan Myohoji
Buddhist Temple in Milton Keynes
There are 16.5 million bin bags full of radioactive soil stored at
Fukushima
CND were supporting the protest. Our nuclear power has always been
a military programme. We never needed
nuclear power and it was always going to be expensive if all the costs
were taken in to consideration.
THe only safe nuclear power comes from the nuclear reactions taking
place in the sun - so we have sunflowers
Many of those protesting against nuclear are Japanese - who know the
results of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
'Remember Fukushima - Its time to move beyound nuclear' and move to
renewable energy sources
'Nuclear Power - No Thanks'
The Reverend Gyoro Nagase, Buddhist monk at the Battersea Peace Pagoda
The march begins along the pavement on Piccadilly
and goes past the Ritz....
I leave the marchers here to photograph other events, catching up
with them again later towards the end of
their rally in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament. As well as speeches
there is poetry and music
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