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This was a really good interview, in my opinion.
I edited the following 52 minute video to include Only English Translation. View the full length video here:
Tatsuya Murakami,anti-nuclear Mayor of Tokai-mura Q&A Includes Japanese Translation.
http://youtu.be/TxPkxdCUzFY

What was discussed in the video posted here?
Ground water is a Big Problem with Fukushima.
Shelf life on the tanks outside Fukushima Daiichi are only designed for three years!
Tokai Daini #2 must be decomissioned ASAP, however, there must be a storage place underground to house the fuel rods, and NO PLACE is safe enough to put the fuel rods, so they will just sit where they are for now.
Should TEPCO be held Criminally Responsible?
Security at Nuclear power plants is IMPOSSIBLE, even with armed guards.
approx: 9:20 Nuclear Plants are Dangerous and we must get rid of ALL NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS.
approx 10:00 Abe Promoting exportation of Nuclear power plants overseas is seen as Japan being immoral and unethical.
approx 12:30 The national government Must step in to take over TEPCO and dissolve Tepco. A new electric supply system must be installed. Lies and mistrust from around the world at Japan, as it promotes nuclear power across the world.
approx 16:00 Status of Tokai Daini is a PROBLEM for a variety of reasons mentioned above
approx 18:30 the Pacific Ocean contamination of Ibaraki prefecture is discussed
approx 19:00 Fukushima fish now not caught but specific species have been more effected than others… but that is a bunch of bullshit. More fish are being caught in Ibaraki, but remember fish know no “exclusion zone” boundaries…
approx 20:00 The LDP grants money to the economy of a region based on nuclear power generation. The JAEA (Japan Atomic Energy Assoc) income comprises one Third of the Budget.
Regulator Authorities is what is wrong and itnernational aid is needed
Fundamental problems with nuclear energy and remember that Japan IMPORTED the nuclear energy technology form the United States. Not enough attention was given to safety and regulation. Remember these people who regulate nuclear energy are ALSO the ones who Promote it.
There is a Myth of Safety that “Nuclear Energy Can Be Controlled”, and it is Clear it CANNOT be controlled, especially in a “promote nuclear” environment without safety measures.

PRESS CONFERENCE Tatsuya Murakami, Mayor of Tokai-mura (Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture)
http://tinyurl.com/m6ub6ve
PRESS CONFERENCE
Tatsuya Murakami
Mayor of Tokai-mura (Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture)
September 5, 2013
(The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation)
Had the tsunami been one meter higher, Japan would have had one more Fukushima catastrophe at a site much nearer to the Tokyo metropolitan area in Tokai Village, Ibaragi prefecture.
The 6.1 meter high breakwater almost completed just shortly before March 11, 2011, barely protected the Tokai Daini Nuclear Plant from becoming fully flooded. Just by a razor thin margin, the plant escaped the doom of total blackout and thus a resulting reactor core meltdown.
Tokai Village is known as the birth place of Japan’s nuclear business. Japan’s first nuclear reactor started operation here in Tokai in 1957. The village also has experienced numerous accidents, including the worst civilian radiation accident in Japan prior to the Fukushima disaster. The accident took place in 1999 and resulted in two deaths.
Tatsuya Murakami was elected mayor of Tokai Village in 1997. He took a bold initiative in the crisis management of the 1999 accident. In the wake of Fukushima catastrophe, he has made his anti-nuclear stance clear. He has been opposing the resumption of the Tokai Plant operation, saying “Japan is not qualified to have nuclear plants.”
Amid the trend for nuclear resumption, Murakami decided not to run during the next mayoral election scheduled for September. Let’s listen to the message he will deliver at the FCCJ press conference on September 5th.
Murakami was born in 1943. He is a graduate of Hitotsubashi University and worked as a banker for 31 years before he was elected Mayor.

here’s a BONUS LINK FOR YOU!
Gregory Jaczko: The Ongoing Fukushima Daiichi Crisis 9/24/2013
http://youtu.be/6TxqAGZOX7s

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