No more Hiroshima Nagasaki Stop the plutonium production plant at Rokkasho!

No more Hiroshima Nagasaki
Stop the plutonium production plant at Rokkasho!


Photo: a clock stopped
by the atomic bomb
© Nagasaki Atomic
Bomb Museum

Hiroshima © Hiroshima Peace Memoriam Museum

Rokkasho © Greenpeace/Gavin Newman

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"It is not possible to describe what I saw in Nagasaki", Mr. Okumura continued, "it was unlike anything I had seen before August 9, 1945."

Japanese plutonium program

Sixty years after the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , the Rokkasho reprocessing plant is scheduled to soon begin separating plutonium from Japan's spent nuclear fuel. Once fully operational, the plant will produce weapons-usable plutonium, which can be made into about 1000 Nagasaki-type nuclear bombs. The Rokkasho reprocessing plant is currently undergoing start-up testing, with uranium commissioning now proceeding and plans to start the "Hot Test," or the test with spent nuclear fuel, to extract plutonium as soon as December, 2005.

Rokkasho reprocessing plant

The plant is located in Aomori Prefecture, on the northern tip of Honshu, in a remote farming community with a population of about 12,000 people. Once a famous fishing community, it is now known as a center of Japan's nuclear fuel cycle. The radioactive discharge from Rokkasho will be similar to that of discharge from the reprocessing plants in Europe, where radiation in samples has been found to be thousands of times more radioactive than surrounding environment.

No more victims

Hibakushas, nuclear bomb victims that were affected by two atomic bombs still suffer today from various forms of radiation sickness and unforgettable memory of the destruction. We do not want to allow more people in coming generations to continue to suffer from the affect of radiation. The recent survey done in Aomori prefecture shows that 82.5 % of the local population feels unsafe in regard to nuclear facilities. The population includes mothers with growing children, young and old who will be especially impacted by Rokkasho operation.

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