In support of nuclear power

Apparently a small bunch of people.

@Alex80

Apparently a small bunch of people.

Let's hope that - as is the case with us anti-nuclear realists - Abé doesn't "hear" them...

it's weird then the banners are all printed the same. Company march?

It is no use crying over spilt milk.

So, what? 20 people tops? Meanwhile, the rest of the nation, and the facts, disagree with them. Perhaps they can prove what their signs say by volunteering to live around the Fukushima plant.

Expect many more of these calculated seed planters, and the 福島安全 meme.

Let's hope that - as is the case with us anti-nuclear realists - Abé doesn't "hear" them...

Abe has selective deafness. He definitely heard what these guys had to say

All bought and paid for by the a Happiness Realization Party, which is looking for some quick points with locals whose jobs depend on the NPP.

I agree with them. Nuclear power is safe, clean and cheap. Deal with it.

The "happiness realization" party is holding up Fukushima's alleged safety as a reason for supporting nuclear energy?

It doesn't get more Orwellian than that.

Yes... "Deal with it."

I guess we can let the next couple of generations deal with it after about 50 years when Fukushima Dai Ichi plant gets closer to being cleaned up.

rainyday: Exactly. I think the 'happiness realization' name itself is from a 'happiness' induced by crack. No way it's 'real' in any other sense of the word

Safe only if you enjoy having radioactive isotope accumulating in your body until you develop cancers, safe only if you enjoy having your DNA structure damaged over time, safe only if you enjoy living in area poisonous and poisoned for years at every leak of contaminate materials.

Safe only if you enjoy having radioactive isotope accumulating in your body until you develop cancers

which isn't likely to happen. As compared to the carcinogens you are ingesting with every single breath you take as you read this post.

The Happiness Realization Party (幸福実現党 ) are the political party of the crackpot fascist Happy Science cult. A bunch of loonies. Loonies with money though, and some nice buildings in expensive areas of Tokyo. I wonder who pays for them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_Realization_Party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Science

Protestors look as if they wouldn't hurt a fly or simply courteous?

Switching gears: These days, Japanese media have been giving massive coverage to the question of nuclear energy due to the fifth anniversary of the devastating Fukushima disaster. In the wee hours of this morning, I actually recorded three hours live debate TV program called "Asamade Namaterebi" or literally, "a live program until morning" of TV Asahi Corporation. Now I finally get around to watching the three hours of the recorded program about the restart of nuclear power plants and related other issues. At any rate, Japan seems to be in a Catch-22 situation.

sf2kMAR. 12, 2016 - 07:16AM JST it's weird then the banners are all printed the same. Company march?

Can we maybe retire this little meme? I mean, it may well be that these protesters are not sincere believers in their message and I'd love to see this theory others are posting that they are being pushed by the Happiness Realization Society supported with some facts, but in a country where quality color printer ownership is widespread, where many schools and offices have a poster printer available, and where any convenience store copy machine can do double-duty as a high-end printer, it's not unexpected to see similar-looking signs. I've been to a couple protests in the US where every protester was definitely a true-believing volunteer, but we had mass-printed signs given to us by the umbrella organization that coordinated our gathering.

There may be insincere protests, but it's time we stop dismissing people's sincerity purely based on the appearance of their signage.

katsu78: "it's not unexpected to see similar-looking signs"

It is if they made the signs themselves. Sorry, but a couple of hundred people hiding behind masks or placards which are IDENTICAL in protest of something (and looking VERY disinterested if you can see them), with buses in the background in some cases, means they were shipped there and given the signs, and in many cases not told for what until they get there (and don't get the money until after).

"There may be insincere protests, but it's time we stop dismissing people's sincerity purely based on the appearance of their signage."

Not really, since I doubt more than one or two are sincere. In other cases, maybe. Pointing out that most are probably not or are just being paid as plants is perfectly valid.

Still, it seems a long road ahead before the streets of coastal communities will be lined with homes and shops again".

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/tears-prayers-as-japan-marks-5th-anniversary-of-tsunami

The effect, of j-greed; causes J-ponder(s): One time Abe ignores the inevitable expansion of calamities, to sacrifice his nation? (companions of the eternal fire?) nuke that is, white gold, radioactive tea....)

"And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/island.html

If you think you're just going to turn off the nuclear reactors when renewables become more readily available you are dreaming. It's extremely naïve if to think that once those reactors go back on they will ever be turned off again. People like advocating nuclear energy because it's supposedly cleaner than are advocating a return to what caused the meltdown in the first place. Even if we eventually tackle the problem of power efficiency with renewables we will not be able to have renewables become the main source of energy because once these reactors go back on they will make so much money for the establishment they won't allow them to be turned off.

Same as with coal. Therefore we need to choose the better option - nuclear.

It's not a better option. With coal there is an honest discussion about effects it has on the environment. There isn't that same discussion with nuclear. people

The nuclear industry is for stronger than the coal industry is. there is a strong push from environmentalists and there's an honest discussion about reducing Coal there's no such Discussion to end nuclear. Nuclear is more dangerous and it is wrong to think that it isn't just because we can't see and smell radiation

Moderator: You and Strangerland are not permitted to address each other on this issue.

Until dilithium crystals are discovered, nuclear power is still a viable and safe option for a power hungry world.

Until dilithium crystals are discovered, nuclear power is still a viable and safe option for a power hungry world.

Well, hopefully we can find another source of power other than dilithium crystals. But until we have a viable alternative source, nuclear is the cleanest option we have.

Aly Rustom asserts

once these reactors go back on they will make so much money for the establishment they won't allow them to be turned off.

If there were a monolithic establishment that was in line for "so much money", perhaps this would be sufficient motivation for it, even if the reactivation were a bad thing overall. And this would mean Rustom, implicitly not part of that evil Establishment, was on the side of the angels (the good ones).

Unfortunately for Rustom's argument, the members of Japan's establishment who are paid from tax revenue have a substantial interest against nuclear power restart: fossil fuel tax revenue. The sources for this revenue include, but are not limited to, the LNG tax whose beginning, and schedule of rate increases, were reported in Japan Times' September 29, 2012 article "Green tax to come into force in October".