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<h1><a
href="http://www.pilgrimcoalition.org/2013/05/rally-at-the-reactor-with-cape-downwinders/"><span
class="title"><a
href="http://www.pilgrimcoalition.org/2013/05/rally-at-the-reactor-with-cape-downwinders/"><img
alt="" src="cid:part1.04080004.04020906@mynas.com"
width="300" align="right" border="0" height="359"
hspace="20"></a>Rally at the (Pilgrim) Reactor
with Cape Downwinders</span></a></h1>
Sunday, May 19<br>
1pm<br>
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, <br>
600 Rocky Hill Road, <br>
Plymouth, MA<br>
<br>
Concerned citizens from New England will gather at State
Road and Edison Access Road in Plymouth to call for the
closing of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. Speakers
include Senator Dan Wolf, poet Marge Piercy and former
Fukushima area resident Chikako Nishiyama. Music will be
provided by Tom Neilson, bard insurgent.<br>
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Scheduled between Motherʼs Day and Memorial Day, the rally
will be an opportunity for all mothers to take a stand to
protect their children, families, and community and to
remember the tragedy of Fukushima and honor those in Japan
and around the world who continue to suffer the consequences
of a nuclear catastrophe. We have a responsibility to future
generations to act responsibly today.<br>
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Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station has the same GE Mark l
Boiling Water Reactor design as at Fukushima, which the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission had determined to have a
90% chance of containment failure in a severe accident.
The catastrophe happened as predicted.<br>
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<li>
At an NRC open house in Plymouth on April 2, 2013, NRC
Project Engineer Tom Setzer confirmed that an accident
like Fukushima could happen in Plymouth.</li>
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Pilgrim was relicensed last May over the objections of
Governor Patrick, Attorney General Coakley, Congressman
Keating, Congressman Markey, State Senator Murray, State
Senator Wolf, and State Representative Peake.</li>
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For directions and updates, visit: <a
href="http://capedownwinders.org">http://capedownwinders.org</a><br>
<h1><a
href="http://www.safeandgreencampaign.org/event/evacuation-stories-from-a-fukushima-refugee">Learning
from Fukushima: Evacuation Stories from a Fukushima
Refugee</a></h1>
Listen to a first hand account of the disaster from a
Fukushima native.<br>
Sunday May 19 at 6:30pm, <br>
First Parish Unitarian Church, <br>
222 Main Street, Kingston, MA<br>
<br>
<b>Chikako Nishiyama</b>, from the village of Kawauchi in
Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, is making a trip to New England
to offer her eye-witness report on the Fukushima nuclear
disaster. She has first-hand accounts of her own travail as
well as that of others from her village. Kawauchi is about
15 miles southwest of the stricken Fukushima nuclear
reactors. The 2,300 people who lived there were evacuated. A
year later they were told it was safe to return, but most
still stayed away, fearing radioactive contamination. Now
two years later, there are still many who have not returned.<br>
<br>
Ms. Nishiyama has been an outspoken and very courageous
critic of TEPCO's and the Japanese<br>
government's whole handling of this disaster. Her son, a
firefighter in his early twenties, was<br>
assigned to go back to the village before the evacuation
order was lifted. He is still stationed there<br>
today, and Chikako is very concerned for his health. She is
currently working to find locales in the<br>
western part of Japan where those who want to relocate can
start new lives in a more sustainable and<br>
healthy environment.<br>
<br>
Translating Chikako’s story will be <b>Chiho Kaneko</b>.
Born in Japan’s Iwate Prefecture (about 150 miles north of
the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors) and graduating from
Hokkaido University with a degree in agronomy, Chiho moved
to the U.S. in 1993 and became an interpreter/translator,
visual artist, musician, and columnist for a Japanese daily
newspaper. Her most recent trip to Japan was last<br>
fall, her fourth visit since the March 11, 2011 nuclear
meltdowns.<br>
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