Events to be hoped in the future

To consider Fukushima disaster in 2011

 

A proposal: A series of films on nuclear power victims along with related lectures or

                    talks  

 

One event to be hoped is to consider nuclear power victims and how we could support people who have been suffering from the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. One possibility is to show a series of films related to victims of nuclear weapons and also those of nuclear power plants' accidents. Japan experienced two atomic bombs in 1945, the first two atomic bombs used on humans. Since then nuclear weapons have been tested so many times led by the USA and the former Soviet Union. Considerably wide areas have been affected by them. 

 

On the other hand, nuclear power plants started supplying electricity in the 1950s. The USA, France and Japan are the three top countries in terms of the number of nuclear power plants. The Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster has been judged as the worst level accident occurred to a nuclear power plant along with the 1986 Chernobyl's case. 

 

We don't know yet what would be the long term effect of the disaster on people and the surrounding environment. It has been recognised that not only Fukushima but also wide areas beyond Fukushima have been affected by the disaster.

 

What we can do first would be learning from history how radioactivity has affected people's lives and the environment in various disasters in the past whether caused by nuclear weapons or by nuclear power plant accidents.