We, the undersigned, join Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata in calling for “an honorable retreat” for Japan, resigning the position of Host for the 2020 Olympic Games. Since Fukushima is already contaminating Tokyo, says Mr. Murata, bringing people there in large numbers for the games (and the workers building the facilities before that event) is immoral and unethical.
In Sept. 2013, the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) elected Tokyo as host city election for the 2020 games. They believed Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lie that, "the situation (at Fukushima Daiichi) is under control".
Tokyo
Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear reactor
complex that was damaged by the earthquake/tsunami of March 2011,
continues to spew forth radioactivity today. Unfortunately, the site is
nowhere near "under control", and there is no guarantee it will be by
2020.
The Olympic practice field is only 20 kilometers from the reactor complex. JP gov is even considering programing 2020 Olympic-torch relay races near Fukushima plant "to fight harmful rumor."
The Fukusima groundwater, which connects to the Tokyo aquifer, comes in contact with the molten cores of reactors 1, 2 and 3, and is highly radioactive. Japan is gambling that the radioactive groundwater problem will be solved by 2020, by building an ice wall around the fractured reactors. This is a false hope. We can’t make the temperature low enough to freeze water,” a Tepco spokesman said.
Of course, the cores are very hot, and so is the water around them, so it's not too surprising. But there is no other plan to clean up the groundwater, and so it's not unlikely that Fukushima radioactivity will be in the Tokyo water supply by 2020.
If the 2020 summer games are held in Tokyo, the world's finest young athletes will be exposed to radiation, along with the workers building the complex and the people from all over the world who attend.
We also must not forget that the country is facing the unprecedented nuclear crisis that continues to spread across its land and ocean, and even across national borders. There still is no provisions for a safe work environment at Fukushima Complex. The evacuated people still haven’t secured safe and healthy living environments, nor are they financially stable. Instead of spending resources on the Olympic Games, Japan should prioritize to restore the affected people’s livelihood as well as prevent further radioactive contamination.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/352/112/859/radioactive-tokyo-resign-as-host-of-2020-olympics/
The Olympic practice field is only 20 kilometers from the reactor complex. JP gov is even considering programing 2020 Olympic-torch relay races near Fukushima plant "to fight harmful rumor."
The Fukusima groundwater, which connects to the Tokyo aquifer, comes in contact with the molten cores of reactors 1, 2 and 3, and is highly radioactive. Japan is gambling that the radioactive groundwater problem will be solved by 2020, by building an ice wall around the fractured reactors. This is a false hope. We can’t make the temperature low enough to freeze water,” a Tepco spokesman said.
Of course, the cores are very hot, and so is the water around them, so it's not too surprising. But there is no other plan to clean up the groundwater, and so it's not unlikely that Fukushima radioactivity will be in the Tokyo water supply by 2020.
If the 2020 summer games are held in Tokyo, the world's finest young athletes will be exposed to radiation, along with the workers building the complex and the people from all over the world who attend.
We also must not forget that the country is facing the unprecedented nuclear crisis that continues to spread across its land and ocean, and even across national borders. There still is no provisions for a safe work environment at Fukushima Complex. The evacuated people still haven’t secured safe and healthy living environments, nor are they financially stable. Instead of spending resources on the Olympic Games, Japan should prioritize to restore the affected people’s livelihood as well as prevent further radioactive contamination.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/352/112/859/radioactive-tokyo-resign-as-host-of-2020-olympics/
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