Fukushima symposium with Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Kan and expert panel

Renowned environmental journalist and Beyond Nuclear Board member, Karl Grossman wrote this report on a Fukushima-focused symposium he attended in New York, posting on the cutting edge anti-nuclear news site, Enformable.  Grossman describes the presentations by Naoto Kan, Japan's former Prime Minister -- who was in leadership during the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima Daiichi -- and others on an expert panel at the October 8 New York event that was repeated in Boston on October 9 and was sponsored by the Samuel Lawrence Foundation. Former US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko, former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford, Fairewind's nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen and public advocate Ralph Nader, spoke out with Prime Minister Kan on the unacceptable consequences of the Fukushima disaster and called for the global phaseout of nuclear power.

Update on October 11, 2013 by admin

Thom Hartman's The Big Picture on RT featured former Prime Minister Kan, and Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen, on a segment entitled "Lessons from Fukushima" (see beginning at minute 15:12, till 27:14).

For those in New York and Boston: A chance to hear Kan

THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT: 
ONGOING LESSONS FOR BOSTON & NEW YORK

Former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Former Prime Minister of Japan join 
panel to discuss the risks of nuclear power at the Indian Point and Pilgrim Nuclear Power Stations
Two symposiums on Fukshima and Nuclear Power 
October 8th New York City & October 9th Boston

Featuring former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, former NRC Chairman Greg Jaczko, former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford and nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen will speak on the impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe and nuclear power in the United States. More details here.

Harvey Wasserman: The World Community Must Take Charge at Fukushima

Harvey Wasserman (photo, left) at Nukefree.org has posted an article entitled "The Demand for Global Take-Over at Fukushima Has Hit Critical Mass," and urges folks to sign the petition at MoveOn, "The World Community Must Take Charge at Fukushima." The petition, posted at various petition sites, now has over 100,000 signatures.

As reported by the Japan Times, it seems that the pro-nuclear Abe administration, and even Tokyo Electric Power Co. itself, are beginning to open to, and even explicity request, international assistance.