NO to the “new standards for restarting nuclear plants”! Friday Demo in the rain, June 21

Angry people filled the streets at the weekly Friday demonstration on June 21, the day after the Nuclear Regulation Authority declared the Oi Nuclear Plant to be mainly congruent with the New Safety Standards.  Though the plant has not fully cleared the Standards, the decision allows it to be restarted. The Authority claims the New Standards are the most stringent in the world, but it is the  loopholes in the Standards that may make the restart of the defective plants possible. For example, the evaluation of the active fault under the reactors was postponed. These Standards are in fact made to push nuclear power plants forward, by persuading the public that it is safe to restart. The lesson of Fukushima is different: all nuclear plants must be decommissioned.  (Shinya)

Photo:"We do not need nuclear power plants"

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規制委「再稼働のための新基準」は許さない！～雨のなか6.21金曜デモ
小雨の降る6月21日金曜デモは、前日、原子力規制委が大飯原発は「新基準におおむね適合」していると判断したことで、「再稼働は絶対に許さない」と抗議する人たちで埋まった。基準を満たしていない。それでも再稼働出来る。活断層の評価さえ先送りだ。「世界一厳しい」と胸をはる新基準には抜け穴が掘ってある。そこから欠陥原発を通そうというのだ。そもそも規制委の作る新基準は、再稼働するために国民を納得させる「安全」基準であって、原発を推進するためのもの。すべての原発は廃炉。それがフクシマの答えだ。（Shinya） 
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