That's the strong message from Japanese experts Heizo Takenaka, a former internal affairs and communications minister and Yoichi Funabashi, who led an independent investigation team "the double whammy" of last year s tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown that followed.
Their arguments are familiar to readers of this blog and, indeed, anyone who's taken the slightest interest in the issue, so I'm not going to rehash all their arguments: Ring of Fire, radiation, costs of management, security, capital expenditure, maintenance, etcetera, etceter, etcet, etc, et, e, .....
Oh, and the storage of radioactive waste for the next couple of hundred thousand years.
In the UK, a report issued last month says that up to 1,000 sites could be contaminated with radioactive waste from old military bases and factories, though the best guess is that between 150 and 250 are.
In other words, in a mere 70 years or so of using radio-active materials in X-ray machines, radium painted on dials of military planes to make them visible in the dark, etcetera, etceter, etcet, etc, et, e, ..... the Ministry of Defence doesn't actually have a clear idea of where they've dumped the stuff.
This is the country which cannot stop folk littering or industries polluting rivers, so does anyone have faith that radioactive waste would be disposed of with no risk to residents and visitors?
This week it is reported that wreckage from Japan's tsunami is now reaching the shores of the USA and Canada. Do you remember the reach of the 2004 Aceh tsunami?
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