Tokyo, September 16,2014
Letter to the Washington Post
Mitsuhei Murata
Former Ambassador to Switzerland
Executive Director, Japan Society for Global System and Ethics
The worsening situation at Fukushima Daiichi has some experts fearing
the worst; collapse of the 4 reactor buildings due to the softening of
the soil caused by excessive underground water. It could be the
beginning of a catastrophe for Japan and the world. Experts say within
weeks a radioactive plume could reach the West Coast of the United
States.
The total volume of cesium 137 of the Fukushima Daiichi is equivalent
to 5000 Hiroshima Atomic Bombs. The release of their total radiation
could bring about the nuclear winter that would fatally affect the
United States for hundreds of years. The dangers are real and
incomparably terrifying than many are led to realize by Tokyo Electric
Company (Tepco) and the Japanese Government.
Fukushima is forgotten, but the reality remains; Fukushima is a global security issue.
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.
The problem of protecting the security of the residents of the US 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.
The withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympic Games seems inevitable.
Yours truly
Mitsuhei
P.S. The crew of the Ronald Reagan won the right to sue TEPCO.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-30/sailors-can-sue-tepco-in-u-s-over-radiation-judge-says.html
(Mr. Murata’s letter to the Washington Post)
Dear Andi and Martin,
The new political development in Japan could remind the responsibility
of the IOC to have been influenced by the lack of understanding of the
real situation of the Fukuichi.
I am attaching below my letter sent to the Washington Post last
September. Tepco announced yesterday that contaminated water is flowing
into the sea from the trenches
at Fukuichi, due to the failure to freeze the water. The situation is
dangerously worsening. The IOCcontinue to ignore Dr.Helen
Caldicott’s legitimate request to send to Japan a team of
independent scientists to reasure the safty problem.The credibility of
the IOC is at stake.
Dear Mitsuhei Murata and Jean Jacques Fasnacht,
Dear friends in IPPNW in Switzerland and worldwide,
Mitsuhei, reading Your description of the current events in the
Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant I am as alarmed as You about the
worsening situation: the failure of the „freezing concept“ of TEPCO for
the underground water flow indeed may facilitate a lasting increase of
the Pacific seawater contamination, which is of global concern. You are
also absolutely correct in Your assessment, that the Internatl. Olympic
Cttee should seriously consider withdrawing the 2020 Olympic Games from
Japan.
By Your previous political position You have a close connection with
our country, Mitsuhei. We activists in Switzerland and in many
countries are involved in a politically tenacious and difficult
struggle to get our Nuclear Power Plants phased out. I therefore
propose to You, Jean Jacques, to publish Mitsuhei’s letter to the
Washington Post in Swiss Newspapers, translated into German obviously.
Other IPPNW affiliates may also decide to do the same.
Both the state of the damaged reactor and the failing efforts by TEPCO
and the fact of expensive Olympic Games still planned in Japan in 2020
deserve wide public attention. i feel that we as IPPNW have a
responsibility to publish these facts
Best regards and thanks for Your continued efforts to stand-by in
observing the evolving disaster in Fukushima and report about it.
Andi Nidecker, MD
PS: Claudia, if OK’d by JJ kindly translate and spread Mitsuhei's Letter to the Swiss Media
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