Sign on to stop nuclear exports from Japan to India!
May 23, 2013 We stand in complete opposition to the India-Japan nuclear cooperation agreement that is currently under intense negotiation. The governments of both countries must refrain from promoting nuclear commerce, jeopardising the health and safety of their people and environments.
The Fukushima accident in Japan should provide an eye-opener to the Indian government and it must realise that cooperation in/supply of nuclear technology comes with insurmountable safety risks. Nuclear accidents result in totally unacceptable damages to people and the environment. Even more than two years after the accident in Fukushima the reactors are far from being under control and massive radioactive releases have contaminated the ground, air and water, contaminations that coming generations will have to endure even after it has taken its toll on the current generation. The criminal nexus of the nuclear Industry and policy makers now stands exposed.
For the poor villagers in India, this would mean more displacement, land-grabbing, radiation and loss of livelihood. They are already under siege from their own government at the Koodankulam and Jaitapur nuclear sites.
Support the people of India and Japan by signing the petition today!
Interestingly, per a 4 to 1 vote at the US NRC Commission in March 2013, the U.S. joined only India and Mexico in not requiring emergency radiological filters on Mark Is and IIs. NRC Chairwoman Allison Macfarlane, the sole dissenting vote (that is, she voted for requiring filters) pointed out that all other Mark Is and IIs in the world either already have filters, or plan to install them.