‘A combination of failures:’ why 3.6m pounds of nuclear waste is buried on a popular California beach

The San Onofre nuclear power plant shut down years ago – but residents and experts worry what will happen with the waste left behind

More than 2 million visitors flock each year to California’s San Onofre state beach, a dreamy slice of coastline just north of San Diego. The beach is popular with surfers, lies across one of the largest Marine Corps bases in the Unites States and has a 10,000-year-old sacred Native American site nearby. It even landed a shout-out in the Beach Boys’ 1963 classic Surfin’ USA…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/24/san-onofre-nuclear-power-plant-radioactive-waste-unsafe

PETITION: Discharge of contaminated Fukushima radioactive water | No Nukes Asia Forum Japan

 Dear Friends,

We submitted 64,431 signatures (88 countries) to the Japanese government and held a press conference and Emergency action in front of the Prime Minister's Office.

68,800 people have signed this petition as of now, and this campaign will be continued.

●UN experts say deeply disappointed by decision to discharge Fukushima water
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27000&LangID=E

●Statement of FoE Japan: We strongly condemn the decision by the Japanese government to release contaminated water into the ocean https://www.foejapan.org/en/energy/doc/210413.html

●Press conference　NHK 4.12
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210412/k10012970511000.html?fbclid=IwAR20HIPvlX3fSazFFCQRFuQUreYQTd3vtNzT7uU-7gIVx3DIXd7aO-lg6qk

●"Don't let contaminated water flow into the sea!" 
Emergency action in front of Prime Minister's Office, 
200 people, on April 12,
https://www.facebook.com/FoEJapan/videos/366567817923088

in solidarity,
Sato Daisuke
No Nukes Asia Forum Japan

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＞Dear Friends,

Japanese government will officially decide on the discharge of contaminated water at the relevant ministerial meeting on the 13th.
Signatures will be submitted on the 12th.

62,400 people from 86 countries have signed this petition as of now.
Please spread！

On the 10th Anniversary of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster:
International Signature Campaign Against the Discharge of Contaminated Water and Calling for the Discontinuation of Nuclear Power Plants Now!

English：http://chng.it/djybxBBC
French：http://chng.it/fypX2JfF
Germany：http://chng.it/SxwrRGjt
Japanese：http://chng.it/rQ2DWbJk
Korean：http://chng.it/CPtZwx9W
Russian：http://chng.it/P9t7RWQr
Spanish：http://chng.it/LRk9PbmRGF
Taiwan Mandarin：http://chng.it/XgzQzHz6
Turkish：http://chng.it/QLygqbjq
Italian：http://chng.it/WJpGsKXCCc

Initiated by 311 organizations（24 countries）

【Australia】Australian Conservation Foundation、Friends of the Earth Australia、Marrickville Peace Group、People for Nuclear Disarmament、Port Adelaide/Semaphore Amnesty International Australia Action Group、Remembering and Healing、Sydney Peace & Justice Coalition、Uranium Free NSW、Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament、Josephite SA (South Australian) Reconciliation Circle

【Austria】Independent Salzburg Platform Against Nuclear、Wiener Plattform Atomkraftfrei

【Belarus】Institute of Radiation Safety（BELRAD）

【Belgium】Fin du nucleaire、Nucleaire Stop Kernenergie

【Brazil】Coalition for Brazil free of Nuclear Plants、International Uranium Film Festival

【Bulgaria】Za Zemiata (FoE Bulgaria)

【China】Blue Dalian

【Czech】Javorice

【Finland】Women Against Nuclear Power、Women for Peace、

【France】Bure en Retz、CCOA-ADN75、ECHO-Echanges、Editions de Fukushima、Fukushima blog、Fukushima informations 福島新たな原子力、Nos Voisins Lointains 3.11、Pectine Nonuke、Reseau Sortir du Nucleaire、Sortir du nucleaire Sarthe、Sortir du Nucleaire Tregor in Brittany、The Fukushima Voices、Vosges Alternatives au Nucleaire、STOP NUCLEAIRE DRÖME ARDECHE、よそものネット・フランス（パリ）Collectif Anti-Nucléaire Ouest、La France Insoumise 44

【Germany】Aktionsbuendnis Energiewende Heilbronn、Arbeitsgemeinschaft AtomErbe Neckarwestheim、Buendnis Fukushima-Neckarwestheim、Buergerinitiative GegenGift Heilbronn/UnterLand、Bund der Buergerinitiativen Mittlerer Neckar、Bundesverband Bürgerinitiativen Umweltschutz、さよなら ニュークス デュセルドルフ、Sayonara Nukes Berlin、Anti Atom Berlin、ICHIMOKU

【India】National Alliance of People's Movements、Indian Social Action Forum、Indigenous Perspectives、Jharkhandi Organisation Against Redaition-JOAR-JADUGODA、Poovulagin Nanbargal、Socialist Party、SUTRA（Society for Social Uplift Through Rural Action）

【Indonesia】MANI(Indonesia Anti-Nuclear Society)

【Italia】Centro di documentazione（Semi sotto la neve）、日伊の架橋-朋・アミーチ

【Japan】会津放射能情報センター、Friends of the Earth Japan、大間原発反対現地集会実行委員会、核燃サイクル阻止1万人訴訟原告団、核燃料廃棄物搬入阻止実行委員会、柏崎刈羽原発反対地元三団体、柏崎巻原発に反対する在京者の会、上関原発止めよう！広島ネットワーク、9とよさかピースの会、熊本・原発止めたい女たちの会、グリーン・アクション、グローバリゼーションを問う広島ネットワーク、経産省前テントひろば、玄海原発プルサーマル裁判の会、原子力教育を考える会、原子力行政を問い直す宗教者の会、原発事故被害者団体連絡会、子ども脱被ばく裁判の会、これ以上海を汚すな！市民会議、Citizens’Nuclear Information Center、原水爆禁止日本国民会議、原発いらない福島の女たち、原発おことわり三重の会、原発さよなら四国ネットワーク、原発とめよう！九電本店前ひろば、再稼働阻止全国ネットワーク、さようなら柏崎刈羽原発プロジェクト、さよなら玄海原発の会・久留米、さよなら島根原発ネットワーク、さよなら原発神戸アクション、さよなら原発なら県ネット、市民放射能監視センター（ちくりん舎）、ストップ秘密��w)€�(IH欷酲，・覆・錙▲宗璽蕁璽優奪函・睫擺雍癲・Ω業・▲・轡腑・・蜴香川、脱原発とうかい塾、脱原発福島ネットワーク、脱被ばく実現ネット、たまあじさいの会、たんぽぽ舎、とめよう原発!関西ネットワーク、豊橋いのちと未来を守る会、虹とみどりの会、No Nukes Asia Forum Japan、浜岡原発を考える静岡ネットワーク、Peace Boat、東日本大震災避難者の会 Thanks ＆ Dream、ふぇみん婦人民主クラブ、フクシマ・アクション・プロジェクト、ふくしま地球市民発伝所、プルトニウムフリーコミニケーション神奈川、ベクレルフリー北海道、放射能から豊中の市民・子どもを守る会、放射能ゴミ焼却を考えるふくしま連絡会、緑の党グリーンズジャパン、緑のハーモニー、緑ふくしま、みやぎ金曜デモの会、みやぎ脱原発・風の会、モニタリングポストの継続配置を求める市民の会・三春、若狭の原発を考える会

【Korea】福島原発事故10年��疋準備委員会（キリスト教環境運動連帯、労働者連帯、緑色党、緑色連合、大田脱核希望、仏教生態コンテンツ研究所、仏教環境連帯、社会変革労働者党、サムチョク核発電所反対闘争委員会、市民放射能監視センター、子供コープ生協、エネルギー気候政策研究所、エネルギー転換フォーラム、エネルギー正義行動、霊光核発電所安全性確保のための共同行動、円仏教環境連帯、ウォルソン原発隣接地域移住対策委員会、正義党、政治するオンマたち、済州脱核道民行動、参与連帯、天道教ハンウル連帯、天主教男子長上協議会正義平和環境委員会、天主教イエス会社会使徒職委員会、天主教議政府教区環境農村委員会、天主教創造保全連帯、緑を描く、脱核慶州市民共同行動、脱核プサン市民連帯、脱核新聞、脱核エネルギー教授会、脱核エネルギー転換全羅北道連帯、韓国YWCA連合会、韓国天主教女子修道会長上連合会 JPIC文科委員会、ハンサルリム連合、核のない社会のための大邱市民行動、核のない社会のための忠清北道行動、核のない世界のための高敞郡民行動、核のない世界��疋光州全南行動、環境運動連合、環境財団、環境����u樊:・・ぢ梛T繊・・w)w)

【Philippines】ABAKADA-MAPALAD KA、Nuclear Free Bataan Movement、KILUSAN Para sa Pambansang Demokrasya、Coal Free Bataan Movement、Young Bataenos Environmental Advocacy Network、KILUSAN Bataan、Nuclear Free Pilipinas、PEACE WOMEN PARTNERS

【Romania】TERRA Millennium III Foundation

【Russia】Socio-ecological union international

【Sweden】Naturskyddsforeningen i Alvsbyn、Swedish Antinuclear Movement 

【Taiwan】台湾環境保護連盟（Taiwan Environmental Protection Union）緑色公民行動聯盟（Green Citizens' Action Alliance）地球公民基金會（Citizen of the earth）媽媽監督核電廠聯盟、守望文教基金會、台灣蠻野心足生態協會、北海岸反核行動聯盟、看守台灣協會、PAPA非核陣線、環境法律人協會、台灣環境資訊協會、彰化縣環境保護聯盟、主婦聯盟環境保護基金會、台灣媽祖魚保育聯盟、台灣千里歩道協會、台灣永社、人本教育基金會、新北市愛郷協會、林口社區大學、台灣同志諮詢熱線協會、緑色和平、緑黨、台灣公民自主發電行動聯盟、主婦聯盟南部▲公室、台灣人權促進會、台灣緑能臨門一腳協會、台灣環境教育協會、台南新芽、荒野保護協會、美濃愛郷協進會、屏東縣好好婦女權益發展協會、高雄市公民監督公僕聯盟、高雄市鳳山社區大學、全國教保產業工會、主婦聯盟環境保護基金會南部▲公室、台南社區大學、屏東縣教育產業工會　

【Turkey】Nukleersiz. Org、Yesiller Partisi (Green Party)、Istanbul Nukleer Karsiti Platform(NKP) 、Mersin Nukleer Karsiti Platform (Mersin NKP)、Sinop Nukleer Karsiti Platform(SNKP)、Sinop Nukleer Karsiti Platform Dernegi (SNKP DER)、HDP Sinop、SYKP、Sinop Sol Parti、Emek Partisi、Sinop TIP、Elektrik Muhendisleri Odasi(EMO)、Yenifoca Forum、Sinop Cevre Dostlari Dernegi、Sinop Kent Haklari Dernegi (KENT SAV)、Egitim İs Sinop Subesi、Egitim Sen、Sinop Tip、Sinop Tukoder、Gerze Halkevi ve Gerze Bilim Kultur Sanat ve Spor Dernegi、Ataturkcu Dusunce Dernegi Sinop、Cagdas Yasami Destekleme Dernegi Sinop、Yeryuzu Dernegi、Yeni Insan Yayinevi、Samsun Cevre Platformu (SAMCEP)、Mersin Cevre ve Doga Dernegi (MERCED)、Bakirtepe Cevre Platformu、Kazdagi Dogal ve Kulturel Varliklari Koruma Dernegi、Divrigi Kultur D
ernegi、Mezopotamya Ekoloji Hareketi,、Amed Ekoloji Dernegi,、Hevsel Koruma Platformu、Burhaniye Cevre Platformu (BURCEP)、Dogader、Artvin Cevre Platformu、Soke Cevre Platformu、Ordu Cevre Dernegi、Antalya Ekoloji Meclisi、Kusadası  Cevre Platformu、Yesil Artvin Dernegi、Mardin Ekoloji Dernegi、Aydin Cevre ve Kultur Dernegi(AYCEP) 、Ekoloji Birligi、Heryer Kazdaglari、Kazdaglari Kardesligi、Mugla Cevre Platformu、Datca Kultur Sanat Dayanismasi、Doganin Cocuklari、Cesme Cevre Platformu、Ayvalik Tabiat Platformu、Agonya Doga Koruma Girisimi、Munzur Cevre Dernegi、Gokova Ekolojik Yasam Dernegi、Cine Yasam Platformu(CIYAP)、Bozcaada Forum、Munzur Koruma Kurulu (DEDEF)、Troya Cevre Dernegi、Karadeniz Isyandadir、Didim Cevre Platformu、Ege Cevre ve Kultur Platformu(EGECEP)、Karaburun Kent Konsey
i、Yarimada Yesilleri ve Cesme,Urla,Seferihisar, Karaburun Cevre Platformu、Kazdaglari Istanbul Dayanismasi、Didim Egitim ve Cevre Dernegi、Yenisehir Cevre Platformu、Yalova Platformu、Validebag Gonulluleri Dernegi、Emirdag Yaylalari Doga Platformu、Yasam ve Dayanisma Yolculari、Didim Dernegi、Didim Egitim ve Cevre Dernegi、Ankara Artvin Kultur Yardimlasma Dernegi

【UK】Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament、CND Cymru-the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Wales、JAN (Japanese Against Nuclear)、Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group、South Lakeland and Lancaster District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament、Suffolk Coastal Friends of the Earth、People Against Wylfa B

【USA】able、Beyond Nuclear、All-African People's Revolutionary Party、Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition、NO Nukes Action,California、Nuclear Information and Resource Service、Nuclear Watch South、Samuel Lawrence Foundation、the Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World、Veterans For Peace - NYC Chapter 34、Coalition Against Nukes、San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace

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in solidarity,

Sato Daisuke
No Nukes Asia Forum Japan
sdaisuke@rice.ocn.ne.jp
https://www.nonukesasiaforum.org
https://www.facebook.com/nnafjapan

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