So far, I expect that the situation would be much better if the atomic-power accident is stamped out. However, this accident has turned out to be worse than Three Mile Island accident. At the time of the earthquake in Kobe, I doubted if they should promote nuclear electric power generation in such a quake-prone country -although I was a low-teen girl back then.
(See Jun. 16, 2007)
So when I heard the first news of the accident just after the earthquake this time, what I felt first of all was "sure enough". As is already said, earthquake is natural disaster, but atomic-power accident is man-made disaster
. There are full of news coming one after another that imports of products from Japan are suspended in various countries. As for this, I understand -or sympathize with -or admit
I got mad at news that people from the prefecture where those atomic-power plants are in were refused a room at a hotel -Do they confuse radioactivity with virus or something? I couldn't help thinking back on outbreak of new-type flu. (See Jun. 9, 2009)
I wonder what the government and upper strata of the electricity firm administering those atomic-power plants have been doing, making the situation grow so serious and allowing such unreliable information go into circulation. Whatever; I'm NOT the right person to mention the technical subject about the safety of nuclear power and radiation. So all I'd like to ask you who read this weblog today is to keep on persuading the government and the electric power company into sincere response -for the sake of evacuated residents, workers at the spot, and people engaged in agriculture and fisheries industry and suffering damage. No slander please, though -who needs more meaningless negative feeling? It seems that Japan is still sensitive to external pressure -although I don't think this weblog is read by people in overseas or is effective so much.
They repeat that such a disaster was beyond the scope of the assumption. But what we need is trustworthy information about the present situation and future prospects and how general people should respond, not excuse.
Today, I'd like to take this occasion to show a respect for workers struggling at the spot to settle down the accident
An entertainer and movie director well-known with sharp tongue said that those workers deserve People's Honor Awards
-I agree with such an opinion, too. And again and again... let me take this occasion to place my gratitude for various supports from all over the world
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