Tokyo, September 16, 2014
Dear Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
Please allow me to send you an urgent warning from Japan.
I have written the attached article for an American paper.
Japan knows more than any other country the real and present dangers of
nuclear reactors. It is a serious security problem that the mainstream
of the world continue to promote nuclear power generation even after
Fukushima, totally ignoring its lessons. Fukushima is a global security
issue.
Even after the 3・11 disaster, Japan has not revised the basic nuclear
law, intended to promote nuclear power generation as a national policy !
Her governability is now questioned. The fate of the world will be
decided by electric companies, if no drastic change takes place.
Japan faces serious shortage of labor throughout the country.
The number of daily necessary workers at the site of Fukushima Daiichi
is increasing. It was 2950 last year. It will surpass 6000 in September.
The Tokyo Olympic Games will seriously affect the difficult procurement
of workers at the site. It already looms as a fantasy. Increasing
members of the JOC despair of it. An honorable retreat from it for the
sake of coping with Fukushima crisis wholeheartedly now seems
inevitable.
The problem of protecting the security of the residents of the West
Coast will soon awaken the world to the uncontrollable and spreading
consequences of the Accident. We cannot deny that Fukushima, if badly
managed, could become the beginning of the ultimate global catastrophe.
Please allow me to count on your understanding and support.
With highest and warmest regards,
Mitsuhei Murata
Former Ambassador to Switzerland
Executive Director, Japan Society for Global System and Ethics
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