Some 8,000 march in Tokyo against restart of any nuclear power plants

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Source: Kyodo

An estimated 8,000 people took to the streets Saturday in Tokyo to protest against the resumption of any nuclear power plants, as the only operating reactor was set to be shutdown the next day, leaving none functioning for the second time since the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

On Sunday, a reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi plant in Fukui Prefecture, western Japan -- the country's sole operating reactor since earlier this month -- will be taken offline for a routine checkup, leaving all of the country's 50 commercial reactors suspended for the first time in about 14 months.

But as the country's nuclear regulators are considering whether some nuclear power plants are safe enough to resume operating, demonstrators through streets in the capital's Koto Ward and nearby areas after attending an anti-nuclear rally organized by Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe.

Read more: http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/09/246390.html

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1. Longer article

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2013/9/14/in_tokyo_thousands_march_against_nuclear.htm

In Tokyo, Thousands March Against Nuclear Power
September 14, 2013

TOKYO, Sept. 14 -- (Kyodo) -- An estimated 8,000 people took to the streets Saturday in Tokyo to protest against the resumption of any nuclear power plants, as the only operating reactor was set to be shutdown the next day, leaving none functioning for the second time since the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

On Sunday, a reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi plant in Fukui Prefecture, western Japan -- the country's sole operating reactor since earlier this month -- will be taken offline for a routine checkup, leaving all of the country's 50 commercial reactors suspended for the first time in about 14 months.

But as the country's nuclear regulators are considering whether some nuclear power plants are safe enough to resume operating, demonstrators marched through streets in the capital's Koto Ward and nearby areas after attending an anti-nuclear rally organized by Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe.

"We want to keep telling what is happening at Fukushima even though everybody is talking about the Olympics," Oe told the protest rally. "Let's hand down an environment in which children can live without fear."

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2. Keep 'em off.

Simply cannot afford them from any point of view.

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3. K&R. nt

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4. Pictures of the event

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/vanacoral/20130914

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5. Thanks! Great photos!

One really nice feature of the google chrome browser is auto-translate.

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6. Here's an interesting picture that Google auto-translate probably missed

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The shirt says: "Prime Minister Abe's statement that the effects of the contamination are completely restricted to (the bay by the reactors) is a LIE! Never forgive the coverup of the leakage of contaminated water by Tepco and the government!"