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Japan’s Environment Minister, and former PM speak out against nuclear power

Former Japanese PM And Current Environment Minister Speak Out Against Nuclear Power
Climate progress, BY ARI PHILLIPS ON OCTOBER 3, 2013 This week both Japan’s environment minister, Nobuteru Ishihara, and former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a popular national figure, spoke out against nuclear power.

Ishihara said the country’s target to cut greenhouse gas emissions should be based on a scenario with no nuclear power generation…….. in a speech to a pro-nuclear audience of business executives, Koizuma went against the grain by saying that Japan should “should rid itself of its atomic plants and switch to renewable energy sources like solar power.”

Koizuma went on to say that “there is nothing more costly than nuclear power. Japan should achieve zero nuclear plants and aim for a more sustainable society.”

Japan’s last operating nuclear reactor was halted for maintenance in September, leaving the nation without nuclear energy for the first time since July 2012…….http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/03/2722531/japan-nuclear-power-leaks/

October 4, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, politics