Fukushima governor calls for "nuclear-free society" by decommissioning all 10 atomic reactors in prefecture

The Asahi Shimbun reports that Fukushima's governor, Yuhei Sato (pictured at left), has called upon the Japanese federal government and Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) to decommission all ten atomic reactors in the prefecture. For Fukushima Daiichi Units 1 to 4, this goes without saying: they have been utterly destroyed by the March 11th earthquake, tsunami, melt downs, hydrogen explosions, pool fire(s), severe radioactive contamination, etc. But Tepco has held out hope of re-starting Fukushima Daiichi Units 5 and 6, which were not operating on March 11th and survived the calamity largely intact. Tepco also hopes to re-activate the Fukushima Daiini nuclear power plant's four reactors, located just 7 miles down the coast. Several offsite power lines at Fukushima Daiini were destroyed by the earthquake, and all emergency diesels were destroyed by the tsunami. Daiini's 4 reactors averted catastrophe thanks to a single offsite power line that happened to survive the earthquake.