Fukushima nuclear enviromental crisis petition!
Fukushima nuclear enviromental crisis petition!
The Issue
How are you and your family? These last few days, everything in Fukushima is chaos. When they close eyes, they see dead bodies. When they open eyes, they also see dead bodies. They wish there were 48 hours in the day, so that they could continue helping and rescuing folks.
They are without water and electricity, and food rations are near zero. They barely manage to move refugees before there are new orders to move them elsewhere...
The largest earthquake in Japan’s history damaged the infrastructure around several reactors.
This led to a loss of cooling water from around the nuclear fuel in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.
The nuclear fuel in each reactor has begun to heat up and melt, releasing large quantities of steam and hydrogen gas. Over the last three days this hydrogen gas has exploded in each reactor, severely damaging each one. There is a lack of information coming from Japan as to the release of radioactive materials into the environment – though it is safe to say the situation is very serious.
We commend the heroism of the nuclear workers fighting to stabilize the situation, and seriously risking their health through exposure to radiation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hiMFkbh3Ns
What this crisis again demonstrates is that nuclear power is a dirty and dangerous power source, and will always be vulnerable to the potentially deadly combination of human error, design failure and natural disaster. We are calling for the phase out of existing reactors around the world, and no construction of new commercial nuclear reactors.
Governments should instead invest in renewable energy resources that are not only environmentally sound but also affordable and reliable.
More than two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, the unparalleled nuclear crisis at Fukushima shows no signs of abating. We continue to see extraordinary levels of radation at the plant site and continued high levels even outside the expanded evacuation zone.
The world's nuclear industry and governments have told the public that nuclear disasters are rare, and can only happen about once every 10,000 years. Instead, we have seen three in 32 years. They lied.
We must now act to prevent the next nuclear catastrophe.
Global Biodiversity Protection
The Issue
How are you and your family? These last few days, everything in Fukushima is chaos. When they close eyes, they see dead bodies. When they open eyes, they also see dead bodies. They wish there were 48 hours in the day, so that they could continue helping and rescuing folks.
They are without water and electricity, and food rations are near zero. They barely manage to move refugees before there are new orders to move them elsewhere...
The largest earthquake in Japan’s history damaged the infrastructure around several reactors.
This led to a loss of cooling water from around the nuclear fuel in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.
The nuclear fuel in each reactor has begun to heat up and melt, releasing large quantities of steam and hydrogen gas. Over the last three days this hydrogen gas has exploded in each reactor, severely damaging each one. There is a lack of information coming from Japan as to the release of radioactive materials into the environment – though it is safe to say the situation is very serious.
We commend the heroism of the nuclear workers fighting to stabilize the situation, and seriously risking their health through exposure to radiation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hiMFkbh3Ns
What this crisis again demonstrates is that nuclear power is a dirty and dangerous power source, and will always be vulnerable to the potentially deadly combination of human error, design failure and natural disaster. We are calling for the phase out of existing reactors around the world, and no construction of new commercial nuclear reactors.
Governments should instead invest in renewable energy resources that are not only environmentally sound but also affordable and reliable.
More than two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, the unparalleled nuclear crisis at Fukushima shows no signs of abating. We continue to see extraordinary levels of radation at the plant site and continued high levels even outside the expanded evacuation zone.
The world's nuclear industry and governments have told the public that nuclear disasters are rare, and can only happen about once every 10,000 years. Instead, we have seen three in 32 years. They lied.
We must now act to prevent the next nuclear catastrophe.
Global Biodiversity Protection
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Petition created on January 13, 2010