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Opposing Japan-Vietnam Nuclear Cooperation Agreement in Promotion of Nuclear Export

October 31, 2011

Opposing Japan-Vietnam Nuclear Cooperation Agreement in Promotion of Nuclear Export

~What must be exported instead is learning from Fukushima experience and not life-threatening nuclear power plants~

While Fukushima nuclear accident is yet to be brought under control, the fallout of radioactive material continues to contaminate the earth, nature and sea of Japan. Countless number of people including those in Fukushima is suffering from the crisis and devastation of their lives. And yet, the causes of the accident have not been fully investigated.

At the moment, Japan-Vietnam nuclear cooperation agreement is being signed to take another steps further to promote Japan’s nuclear export.

Presently in Vietnam, Japanese taxpayer-funded feasibility studies are being carried out for nuclear power plant construction in Ninh Thuan Province. The outcome of these studies, however, has not been committed for a full disclosure to the citizens of Vietnam and taxpayers in Japan.

The planned site for the plant in Vietnam is a land of scenic beauty, where residents make their living by fishery, farming and tourism. Thus, the construction will unquestionably threaten the lives of those depend on this land.

In case of another accident, radioactive contamination will reach Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and other neighboring countries of Vietnam. Just as the Governments of Japan and Vietnam have not fulfilled their accountability to their respective citizens, they have not even begun to fulfill their accountability to those in these neighboring countries.

We, the women gathered at the Ministry of Economy traveling from Hokkaido in the north and Kyushu in the south as well as the citizens deeply concerned with nuclear export, are vehemently against Japanese government’s nuclear export. What must be exported instead is a critical learning through pain and suffering in Fukushima and NOT nuclear power plants.

Based on the above, we demand the following from the governments of Japan and Vietnam.

  • The Japanese government must clearly state a policy of non-nuclear export.
  • The Japanese government must not waste any more tax for the purpose of nuclear export.
  • The Japanese and Vietnam governments must terminate feasibility studies currently being conducted.
  • The Japanese and Vietnam governments must fulfill their accountability to the citizens of neighboring countries.

Women across Japan for No More Nuclear Power / Friends of the Earth Japan / Green Action / Mekong Watch / No Nukes Asia Forum Japan / e-shift (Association for Nuclear Power Phase-out and New Energy Policies) / SuiGenRen (National Coordinating Committee for Water Resources Development Issues) / NINDJA (Network for Indonesian Democracy, Japan) / Mihama-no-Kai (Osaka Citizens Against the Mihama, Oi, and Takahama Nuclear Power Plants) / Fukurou-no-Kai (The Citizens Against Fukushima Aging Nuclear Power Plants) / Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation / Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Emergency Action Network / Tatebayashi Citizens’ network for Climate-Change / Action In Front Of TEPCO

Contact: Kanna Mitsuta / 090-6142-1807

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