March 11 Anti-Nuclear Fukushima Action
Stop Kishida’s Major Shift in Nuclear Policy!
It has been 12 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. With the 12th anniversary of March 11 within sight, the Kishida administration has taken a decisive step to forcibly promote a major change of its nuclear power, nuclear armament, policies. This is a part of blatant attack against all of us with the cabinet decision last December on Three Security Documents to clean way to become a military power.
The war in Ukraine is intensifying and expanding, and the danger of global war and nuclear war is increasing. Nuclear weapons and nuclear power plant technology are vital for the Kishida administration, which is pushing for this war as the G7 presidency. Kishida administration is rushing toward war of aggression on China more and more closely united with the U.S. Biden administration.
This year’s March 11 Anti-Nuclear Fukushima Action must be a historic battle, in full confrontation with the war-mongering Kishida administration, to unleash the anger of Fukushima against our own government.
In December last year, the Kishida administration announced its “Basic Policy (for energy supply),” which is to restart nuclear power plants, to develop and build new “innovative” reactors, to extend the operational period of nuclear power plants, to promote nuclear fuel cycle projects and so forth. The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11 has brought about the indescribable suffering inflicted by evacuation, nuclear plant-related deaths, loss of old homes, health hazards caused by radiation exposure, etc. But the Kishida administration is now starting to promote its nuclear policy pretending as if this disaster had never happened.
On January 13, the Kishida administration announced once again that the dumping of contaminated water into the ocean from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will take place “around this spring or summer.” The government and TEPCO are completely ignoring the dangers of contaminated water and are forcing the discharge into the ocean without listening to any opposition from people in Japan or the rest of the world.
Even after treating by the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS), the water still contains high concentrations of cesium, strontium, and other radionuclides as well as tritium. On January 18, the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), which consists of 15 countries and two regions including Australia and New Zealand, issued a statement opposing the discharge of contaminated water into the ocean.
The collapsed reactors have already released huge amounts of radioactive materials into the ocean. On February 7, the cesium level in Japanese sea-bass landed off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture reached the limit of the standard, and the Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations refrained from bringing the fish to market.
In solidarity with workers, people, and fishers all over the world, we are determined to launch a big movement against the discharge of radioactive contaminated water into the ocean.
The March 11 nuclear accident is not at all over. Radiation is still being released daily, and some 30,000 people, deprived of their hometowns, are still forced to live as evacuees. Decontamination of vast areas of mountains and forests has not even started. The Kishida administration has been forcing Fukushima people to live in such an environment. Don’t trample on human life!
The struggle of the people in Fukushima, including those who have filed the child thyroid cancer lawsuit, continues unceasingly and powerfully to hold the government and TEPCO accountable. The Kishida administration is forcing the discharge of contaminated water into the ocean in order to stifle the anger and struggle of the Fukushima people. This is absolutely unacceptable.
On March 11, we will hold the March 11 Anti-Nuclear Fukushima Action 2023. We are asking for all workers, farmers, students, and citizens around the world to send us your passionate messages of solidarity to fight with us.
February 28, 2023
March 11 Anti-Nuke Fukushima Action Organizing Committee
National Conference for the Immediate Closure of All Nuclear Power Plants (NAZEN)
岸田政権の核・原発政策の大転換を許すな！
2011年３・11東日本大震災から12年を前に、岸田政権は核・原発政策の転換的推進へとかじを切りました。これは昨年12月に軍事大国化への道を鮮明にした安全保障関連３文書の閣議決定と完全に一体の攻撃です。
ウクライナ戦争はますます激化・拡大し、世界戦争・核戦争の危機は一層高まっています。この戦争をＧ７議長国として推進しつつ、アメリカ・バイデン政権とますます一体化して中国侵略戦争へと突き進む岸田政権にとって、核・原発技術は絶対に手放せないのです。
私たちは、今年の３・11反原発福島行動を、戦争に突き進む岸田政権と全面対決し、福島の怒りと闘いを自国政府打倒のたたかいに向かって解き放つ歴史的決戦にしなければならないと考えています。
岸田政権は昨年12月に、原発の再稼働、新型革新炉の開発や建て替え、原発の運転期間延長、核燃料サイクル事業の推進などを骨格とする「基本方針」を発表しました。３・11原発事故とそれがもたらした筆舌しがたい避難の苦しみ・原発関連死、古里の喪失、放射能被曝による健康被害など一切なかったことにして原発政策を推進しようとしているのです。
岸田政権は１月13日に、放射能汚染水の海洋放出を「今春から夏ごろ」に行う事を改めて発表しました。国と東京電力は、放射能汚染水の危険性を完全に無視して、日本国内はもとより世界中から寄せられる反対の声には一切耳を貸さず、海洋放出を強行しようとしています。
多核種除去設備（advanced liquid processing system、ＡＬＰＳ）で処理をしても、この「ＡＬＰＳ処理水」にはトリチウムはもとより高濃度のセシウム、ストロンチウムなどの放射性核種が多く残留しています。１月18日には、オーストラリア、ニュージーランドなど15カ国・２地域が加盟する太平洋諸島フォーラムPacific Islands Forum（ＰＩＦ）が汚染水海洋放出反対の声明を発しています。
崩壊した原子炉からはすでに、膨大な放射性物質が海洋に垂れ流されています。２月７日には、福島県沖で水揚げされたスズキ（Japanese Sea-bass）から基準値限界に達するセシウムが検出され、漁業組合は出荷を自粛しました。「実害」がすでに問題になっているのです。
私たちは、全世界の労働者・民衆、漁民と連体し、放射能汚染水海洋放出反対の大運動を巻き起こします。
３・11原発事故は何も終わっていません。放射能が日々撒き散らされ、いまだに古里を奪われた約３万人の人々が避難生活を余儀なくされています。広大な山林には除染の手は入っていません。岸田政権はそれらに囲まれて生活しろというのです。人の命を踏みにじるな！
子ども甲状腺がん裁判を闘う青年をはじめ、国と東京電力の責任を追及する福島の怒りと闘いは、絶えることなく力強く継続しています。岸田政権はこの福島の怒りと闘いを圧殺するために汚染水海洋放出を強行しようとしています。絶対に許すことはできません。
来る３月11日、私たちは【３・11反原発福島行動’23】を開催します。全世界のたたかう労働者、農民、学生、市民のみなさん、共にたたかう熱い連帯メッセージをお寄せ下さい。
2023年２月28日
３・11反原発福島行動実行委員会
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