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| Earlier anti-nuclear protest, Tokyo. |
"Many people don’t know that radiation is so close to our lives. People must be aware of it, what radiations are and what kind of effect they have in our body. We must pass on [what we know of the risks] to future generations": bombing survivor Junko Kosumo.
by Lauren McCauley, staff writer, Common Dreams, 5 August 2015
Those who experienced the horrors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki say they 'must pass on what we know of the risks of nuclear energy to future generations.'
As the world nears the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, some of the individuals who survived the horror of nuclear detonation are speaking out against the continued proliferation of nuclear energy.
With strong backing from President Shinzo Abe, Japan is set to restart its nuclear power program on August 10th, beginning with the Kyushu Electric Power Company's Sendai plant in the southwestern prefecture. It will mark the first restart since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011.
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