[RADMETAL] Stop Japan's Rad Waste Deregulation

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Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:26:37 -0500

" Joseph Malherek " <jmalherek

 

[RADMETAL] Stop Japan's Rad Waste Deregulation

 

 

[below you'll find an action alert to sign a letter of support for a

Japanese organization's attempt to prevent that country's deregulation

of radioactive waste. This comes from our friends at the Nuclear

Information and Resource Service (NIRS).]

 

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!!! A C T I O N A L E R T !!!

 

Jan. 25, 2005

 

Sign on to Help Japan Stop Nuclear Waste Deregulation

 

ENDORSE this letter of support for the Japanese Organizers of the

Conference to Stop Nuclear Deregulation in Japan. To sign, CONTACT D.

D'Arrigo at dianed or (US)+202 328-0002; 202 462 2183 (fax).

Provide your NAME, ORGANIZATION (if you represent one), CITY, STATE,

COUNTRY, EMAIL address.

 

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INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT for Conference to Stop Two Nuclear Bills in

Japanese Legislature

 

Dear Kazuhide Sueda (Kansai Nuclear Waste Campaign), Baku Nishio (CNIC)

and others organizing the Conference to Stop Two Nuclear Bills in the

Japanese Legislature:

 

Your work to prevent deregulating nuclear waste is absolutely essential

to the worldwide efforts! Thank you for taking on the challenge! We

wish

you success and offer our help.

 

If countries around the world allow nuclear waste to be " let go " as if

not radioactive, radioactive contamination will spread internationally.

All living things, including humans -- children, the elderly and those

with reduced immunity -- will be exposed to unverifiable, increased

levels of radioactive contamination without their consent or

notification. This is unethical. We are working hard in our countries

to

stop this insidious and completely unnecessary health and economic

threat.

 

This battle is especially important because the contamination can be

long-lasting and irreversible. It will not be practical to recapture

released radioactive wastes but we CAN prevent the releases in the

first

place by stopping laws and regulations that allow waste that is now

regulated from being " let go, " " cleared, " " exempted, " " excluded, " or

otherwise treated as not radioactive.

 

We fully support your efforts to prevent your government from passing

laws that subsidize the nuclear power industry and threaten your health

and economics as well as that of the rest of the world. Your work to

stop nuclear waste deregulation in Japan is extremely important in the

world battle against radiation contamination and nuclear power which

generates more waste to be deregulated.

 

It is important to realize too that many who have no opinion on nuclear

power or are pro-nuclear are against the deregulating of nuclear waste.

For the sake of the nuclear power industry, metal including steel and

specialty metals, asphalt, concrete, plastics, soil, wood, paper and

any

other recycling industries are threatened with both physical

contamination and with lack of consumer confidence.

 

If policies allowing nuclear power wastes to be " released, " " cleared, "

" exempted " or " excluded " from regulatory control are adopted,

everything

from baby toys to zippers, frying pans, kids' dental braces, buildings,

cars, furniture, drink cans, belt buckles, play grounds, and roads

could

end up radioactively contaminated from nuclear fuel chain wastes.

 

There is simply no justification for governments to allow known

carcinogens at any level into the flow of daily commerce (or

unregulated

waste sites) resulting in routine, multiple exposures that increase

risks of cancer, reduced immunity, genetic damage, birth defects for

generations to come and possibly even ischemic heart disease.

 

We are working to prevent the deregulation and dispersal of radioactive

waste from the nuclear power and weapons industries into daily commerce

and we stand with you to stop it in Japan.

 

SINCERELY,

 

[List of Signatories]

 

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