Man who saw the future in nuclear energy converts to solar power
Man who saw the future in nuclear energy converts to solar power
By KOSUKE SO/ Staff Writer
A huge banner hanging at the entrance of a shopping area in the evacuated town of Futaba, co-host to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, still reads Nuclear energy is the energy of a bright future.
Yuji Onuma created this slogan while in elementary school and won the best prize at a contest organized by the town government in 1987.
...The nuclear disaster came after he had long believed in a bright future with nuclear energy, just like everyone else in Futaba. But now his hometown may have been lost, perhaps forever, after a triple meltdown at the plant.
I realized that I was wrong (about a future with nuclear energy) after the nuclear disaster took my hometown away, said Onuma, who fled Futaba with his expectant wife, Serina, after the accident. I will probably never be able to go home....
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