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78% of Japanese do not believe that Fukushima nuclear plant crisis is over

78 percent of poll participants did not accept Noda’s announcement this month of the effective end of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant,

Japan PM’s public support plunges Channel Asia News 26 December 2011 TOKYO: Support for Japan’s primeminister plunged in December as voters lost faith in his leadership, amid party turmoil and criticism over his handling of the nuclear crisis, a poll said Monday.

The share of voters who said they actively disapproved of Yoshihiko Noda, who only who took office in September, was up 14 points from a month earlier to 53 percent, the Nikkei business daily said.

The percentage of people saying they approved of the premier fell 15 points to 36 percent…..
The Nikkei said 78 percent of poll participants did not accept Noda’s announcement this month of the effective end of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the worst nuclear crisis in 25 years.

Noda had declared on December 16 that the reactors — crippled by
Japan’s quake-tsunami disaster in March — had reached a state of
“cold shutdown”.

The announcement means only that the temperature inside the reactors
has remained below 100 degrees centigrade (212 Fahrenheit) for a
period of time and that emissions of radioactive materials have
dropped off.

The work to decommission the plant and clean up the area around it
could take up to four decades, officials have said…..
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1173375/1/.html

December 27, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, politics