Japanese PM vows cut nuclear power at Hiroshima a-bomb Memorial

August 06, 2011 14: 43 PMJapanese PM vows to cut nuclear power on Hiroshima a-bomb Memorial Memorial HIROSHIMA (Japan), Aug 6 (Bernama)-Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Saturday confirmed the need to reduce the country's dependence on nuclear energy in a ceremony in Hiroshima 66th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack, China's Xinhua News Agency reported.

A nuclear bomb was at an altitude of 600 M at the end of the second WELTKRIEGS about 140,000 people kill, ignited in 1945 on Hiroshima. A second atomic bomb that 9, 1945 was deleted on Aug of Nagasaki and Japan surrendered six days later.
In his speech, Kan, Japan said the causes of the nuclear accident Fukushima No. check will nuclear power plant and aim for a society that would not depend on nuclear power generation.

Mayor of Hiroshima Kazumi Matsui invited one year peace statement the Japanese Government review its energy policy after the nuclear crisis on the site verkruppelten.

The nuclear crisis in the work which was world's worst nuclear accident since 1986 Chernobyl explosion. It was caused by the devastating earthquake in March 11 and the subsequent tsunami. Leaking is still radioactive substances in the environment.
"Many citizens are still at risk of radiation exposure, and this disaster confirmed our worst fears about the dangers of nuclear energy," Takashi Kijima, President of Hiroshima City Council, said in his speech.

With a basic energy policy the Fukushima plant issued in 2010 to increase the ratio of nuclear power generation of Japan's consumption by 2030, but nuclear accident led the nation to reconsider the policy.

An updated energy strategy developed in late July to now, their dependence of nuclear generated power cut. Did the Government not mention but how much will be reduced.

Japan has currently 54 commercial nuclear reactors.
On another development according to Kyodo News unter¬suchung are now 73 percent of the group against the "peaceful uses of nuclear energy".
"We once thought our life would be happier with nuclear power, but the accident we turned down," said a Hibakusha Emiko Hogo Xinhua after Saturday's ceremony.
Representatives from 66 countries and regions, including the France and the United Kingdom, attended the event.
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Japan PM Naoto Kan brings his nuclear-free vision in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Saturday took his campaign against nuclear energy in Japan to Hiroshima the 66 years ago which was a world's first victim of the atomic bomb.

The pen in a country that has until now carefully avoided, their fast link growing, and now nuclear power industry to his trauma as the only country discredited, with atomic bombs, has been invaded, it designates a change.

Kan, being reviewed at an anniversary ceremony for the victims of the bomb on Hiroshima, that the world's worst nuclear crisis during 25 years in Fukushima a post-earthquake March him convinced that Japan its dependence on nuclear power is to end.

The damage from the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami at the nuclear power station Fukushima, the authorities still trying to contain, led to widespread calls for an end to dependency of nuclear reactors in the quake-prone country.

"I will nuclear power"Myth of security"think deeply about study thoroughly the causes of the accident and fundamental measures for safe security, as well as and reduce dependence on nuclear power plants and aim for a society that does not depend on nuclear power plants," Kan said.

Kazumi Matsui, Hiroshima of's Mayor, and the son be of an atomic bomb of survivor, also pressed Tokyo, after the Fukushima crisis traumatize the public.

"The Japanese Government should sincerely accept this reality and quickly check its energy policy", he said.

It was observed for decades, politics had consulted all the Mayor of Hiroshima Japan the development of nuclear energy during the annual ceremony, in which tens of thousands a minute of silence as the peace Bell meant the first time.

Matsui said, it was heartbreaking to see devastation left by 11 March earthquake and tsunami on the northeast coast and how it was similar to, what was left after the bombing of Hiroshima.

A U.S. warplane the atomic bomb "Little Boy", with the nickname of this Western City on 6 August 1945 are deleted in the last days of World War II. The number of casualties by the end of the year were approximately 140,000 of total estimated 350,000 lived there at the time.

The United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the southern town Nagasaki on Aug 9. Japan surrendered six days later.

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Japan has a self-imposed ban against nuclear weapons, part of its pacifist post-war Constitution.

But also many Atom groups were you not draw parallels between happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and threats by the peacetime use of nuclear reactors.

Before the crisis of Fukushima nuclear energy were almost one-third of Japan's energy supply. Hiroshima, an industrial city 1.2 million, had also for decades utility company Chugoku electric Shimane nuclear power plant, 600 km (370 km) West of Tokyo, for some of the electricity invoke.

But since 11 March Quake and tsunami radiation leaks in the Tokyo Electric Power Co. Fukushima plant 240 km (150 miles) northeast of Tokyo trigger, public mood has moved to.

"We still not so deeply about it previously thought." "But I think it (nuclear power plant) is not so different from the atomic bomb", said Michiko Kato, 73-year-old of survivor who lost her sister, the bomb.

"There is nothing made by people, which is ideal..." "I want to use something like this."

About a thousand demonstrators marched after the ceremony, holding banners saying: "No more Fukushima, no more Hiroshima."

Unpopular kan, who said that he when will retire without clarification, seized the shift in public sentiment and calls for a revision of Japan's energy policy. Over 70 percent of the voters again his vision a recent survey showed.

But it remains unclear what will happen to his vision after he comes back. Support rating for Kan is under 20 percent and calls between the legislators and the public for him to grow quickly.

Local communities are carefully down reactors when for regular maintenance and inspections, despite fears deficiency makes, and all 54 could be shut down Japan's nuclear reactors until may 2012.

(Writing and additional reporting by Yoko Kubota;) (Editing by Tomasz Janowski and Jonathan Thatcher)

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Japan's Hiroshima City marks atomic bombings on

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) - the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Saturday the 66th anniversary of the bombing, as the nation marked a different kind of disaster of nuclear technology - a nuclear power plant in a meltdown crisis, fights after he hit by a tsunami.The site of the world's first a-bomb attack observed a moment of silent 8:15 am Saturday (2315 GMT Friday)-the time bomb falling, Aug. 6, 1945, was left by the United States in the final stages of the second WELTKRIEGS.The bomb destroyed most of the city and more than 140,000 people killed. A second atomic bombings on 9 August that year in Nagasaki in tens of thousands more killed and asked to surrender to the Japanese.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Saturday laid a wreath of yellow flowers on Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and repeat reaffirmed Japan's promise, never the horrors of Hiroshima, which are suffering today because of the diseases, which for generations passed continues.Japan has long vowed never to make or possess nuclear weapons, but embraced nuclear power as it to the rebuild and modernize after the war.Crowds umklammert bowed their heads Buddhist prayer beads Saturday in memory of the dead, as pigeons during the solemn assembly published were every year before the skeleton dome of a bomb devastated building being reviewed.The Prime Minister, in his speech touched also Japan's younger nuclear disaster in the northeastern Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant, where a massive tsunami set off by an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on 11 March knocked out backup generators, the plant cooling mechanisms powered.

"Kan repeated a promise to embrace renewable energy sources and rely less on nuclear power."Japan also works its energy policy from scratch to revise "Kan" said. "I regret deeply to the security myth of nuclear power to believe."Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui stopped behind the call for a nation without nuclear power during Retierating be promise, to work towards a world without nuclear weapons.But he confirmed that confidence in the safety of nuclear power damaged people. "Some are trying to give up nuclear power as a whole with the faith that humanity demand stricter regulation of nuclear power and more renewable energy with nuclear energy, are used while others can not," he said.

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Japan marks anniversary of Hiroshima bomb

Today, Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced his campaign against nuclear energy in Japan to Hiroshima the 66 years ago which was a world's first victim of the atomic bomb.

The pen in a country that has until now carefully avoided, their fast link growing, and now nuclear power industry to his trauma as the only country discredited, with atomic bombs, has been invaded, it designates a change.

Kan, being reviewed at an anniversary ceremony for the victims of the bomb on Hiroshima, that the world's worst nuclear crisis during 25 years in Fukushima a post-earthquake March him convinced that Japan its dependence on nuclear power is to end.

The damage from the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami at the nuclear power station Fukushima, the authorities still trying to contain, led to widespread calls for an end to dependency of nuclear reactors in the quake-prone country.

"I will nuclear power"Myth of security"think deeply about study thoroughly the causes of the accident and fundamental measures for safe security, as well as and reduce dependence on nuclear power plants and aim for a society that does not depend on nuclear power plants," Kan said.

Kazumi Matsui, Hiroshima of's Mayor, and the son be of an atomic bomb of survivor, also pressed Tokyo, after the Fukushima crisis traumatize the public.

"The Japanese Government should sincerely accept this reality and quickly check its energy policy", he said.

It was observed for decades, politics had consulted all the Mayor of Hiroshima Japan the development of nuclear energy during the annual ceremony, in which tens of thousands a minute of silence as the peace Bell meant the first time.

Matsui said, it was heartbreaking to see devastation left by 11 March earthquake and tsunami on the northeast coast and how it was similar to, what was left after the bombing of Hiroshima.

A U.S. warplane dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on this Western City Aug. 6, 1945 in the last days of World War II with the nickname. The number of casualties by the end of the year were approximately 140,000 of total estimated 350,000 lived there at the time.

The United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the southern town Nagasaki on Aug 9. Japan surrendered six days later.

BLURRED LINES

Japan has a self-imposed ban against nuclear weapons, part of its pacifist post-war Constitution.

But also many Atom groups were you not draw parallels between happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and threats by the peacetime use of nuclear reactors.

Before the crisis of Fukushima nuclear energy were almost one-third of Japan's energy supply. Hiroshima, an industrial city 1.2 million, had also for decades utility company Chugoku electric Shimane nuclear power plant, 600 km (370 km) West of Tokyo, for some of the electricity invoke.

But since 11 March Quake and tsunami radiation leaks in the Tokyo Electric Power Co. Fukushima plant 240 km (150 miles) northeast of Tokyo trigger, public mood has moved to.

"We still not so deeply about it previously thought." "But I think it (nuclear power plant) is not so different from the atomic bomb", said Michiko Kato, 73-year-old of survivor who lost her sister, the bomb.

"There is nothing made by people, which is ideal..." "I want to use something like this."

About a thousand demonstrators marched after the ceremony, holding banners saying: "No more Fukushima, no more Hiroshima."

Unpopular kan, who said that he when will retire without clarification, seized the shift in public sentiment and calls for a revision of Japan's energy policy. Over 70 percent of the voters again his vision a recent survey showed.

But it remains unclear what will happen to his vision after he comes back. Support rating for Kan is under 20 percent and calls between the legislators and the public for him to grow quickly.

Local communities are carefully down reactors when for regular maintenance and inspections, despite fears deficiency makes, and all 54 could be shut down Japan's nuclear reactors until may 2012.

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