The Affected Communities and Allies Working Group of the Nuclear Ban Treaty Collaborative will host a discussion on the devastating impacts of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima and the dangers of parading nuclear energy as a solution to the climate crisis.

This free online webinar will explain why nuclear is not a climate solution and shed light on the underreported impacts of the ongoing nuclear crisis in communities impacted by nuclear energy and nuclear waste.

March 11 marks eleven years since the beginning of the ongoing nuclear disaster in Fukushima. The disaster forced some 160,000 to evacuate. Tens of thousands are still displaced. Thyroid cancer, one of the known adverse effects of radiation exposure, has been on the rise among children. In 2021, the Japanese government decided to dump 1.28 million metric tons of radioactive wastewater from the damaged nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean starting from 2023.

While this event is free, we encourage donations to the Minna-no Data Site (MDS) through the following donation page of the Fukushima 30-year Project.

https://en.fukushima-30year-project.org/support/ (Please write “for MDS” in the message box.)

The MDS is a Japanese non-profit network of dozens of people-led radioactivity measurement laboratories that were established in the wake of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. In 2018, the MDS self-published an easy-to-read radiation data map of northeast Japan and received the Japan Congress of Journalists Prize in 2019. The MDS’s website provides measurement data of over 18500 food samples, 3400 soil samples, and other samples from communities impacted by the radioactive fallout from the nuclear disaster.

When:
March 9, 2022 at 8PM Eastern US/ 7PM Central/ 6PM Mountain/ 5PM Pacific

(March 10 at 10AM Japan / 1PM Fiji)

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-2OnLM1HRPC6ZGPAWeAkSQ