THE BEYOND NUCLEAR BULLETIN
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Urgent appeal for International action! Fukushima Unit 4 could fall, dwarfing Chernobyl radiation releases
We need your organization to help! Please join our friends and colleagues in Japan by signing your organization onto their urgent request for international action to stabilize and secure the precarious Unit 4 reactor building and fuel pool at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Beyond Nuclear has been warrning for weeks of the risks of ignoring the fragile condition of Unit 4, which is leaning and could topple if hit with another earthquake or tsunami resulting in a deadly radioactive fuel pool fire. The ability for the unit to withstand another seismic event is rated at zero.Now, a coalition of concerned Japanese citizens, led by Green Action Japan and Shut Tomari, is urging UN Secretary, Ban-Ki Moon and Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda, to properly inform the Japanese people of the perilous situation, and to work together to prevent what would be an irreversible disaster that would release huge amounts of lethal radiation, dwarfing the gravity of the original accident.
“Given the fact that collapse of this pool could potentially lead to catastrophic consequences with worldwide implications, what the Japanese government should be doing as a responsible member of the international community is to avoid any further disaster by mobilizing all the wisdom and the means available in order to stabilize this pool,” the letter states.
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