FWD: [y2k-nuclear] Could you send FAX to Japan?

[Ak Malten]

Beste Mensen,

graag ondersteun ik deze FAX actie. En ik hoop dat meerdere mensen
en / of organisaties ook de tijd en moeite nemen deze fax te sturen.

Ik heb de volgende fax voor het verzenden gewijzigd, ik ben namelijk
niet naar de genoemde G8 bijeenkomst geweest als waarnemer en kan dus
ook niet faxen:

"However, as an observer of the G8 Seminar I got the impression that....
[snip] enz..."

ik heb hiervan gemaakt:

"However, from observers of the G8 Seminar I got the impression that....
[snip] enz..."

Bij voorbaat dank voor de genomen tijd en moeite,

Met vriendelijke groeten,

Peace,
or saved by
the pigeon,

Ak Malten,

Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance

---origineel bericht in het Engels (sorry) volgt---
From: "Mari Takenouchi" <marisens at ya2.so-net.ne.jp>
Cc:   "Ak Malten" <akmalten at cornnet.nl>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 03:32:13 +0900
Subject: [y2k-nuclear] Could you send FAX to Japan? (corrected version)


Sorry, but I found some mistakes in the letter I just sent and  I am sending
the same letter again with some correction.   Thanks.  Mari


My dear friend Bernd Frieboese from Germany had send the following letter to
Japanese Prime Minister, Minister of International Trade and Industry and
Secretary General of Science and Technology Agency.

Can any of you spend 10 minutes and send the following text with or without
revision?

I will be lobbying Japanese government next week and your letter would value
a lot.  (For some reason, most Japanese listen to foreign citizens' opinions
more seriously than Japanese citizens.)

Prime Minister, Keizo Obuchi
81-3-3581-9880

Minister of International Trade and Industry, Kaoru Yosano
81-3-3501-1373

Director general of Science and Technology Agency, Akito Arima
81-3-3595-0567



Also, now is a good timing to send FAX to Clinton as well regarding our WASH
campaign.

Thank you in advance.

Mari


Dear Mr. Obuchi

As a citizen of Planet Earth I would like to state that I feel sorry for
the employees and helpers who were injured by radioactivity during
Thursday's accident at the Tokaimura uranium processing plant.

I was happy to hear that the nuclear chain reaction had been stopped.

However, I think that this accident should remind all of us that even
though the supporters of the use of nuclear energy have always said
that the probability of a major accident is quite low, but this kind
of accidents can and do happen and their consequences can be catastrophic.

After all, the damages to the health of the Japanese people caused by
Thursday's accident, which IAEA rated as the third worst (after Chernobyl
and Three Mile Island) in the history of nuclear energy, should not be
overseen.

As you may know, Japan sent the following 12 delegates to the G8 Seminar
on Contingency Planning (about the Y2K computer problem) on the
21st September in Berlin, Germany:

Mr Kaoru Ishikawa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr Kiyoshi Wada, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr Masaki Nishiyama, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dr Masaaki Mishiro, Ministry of International Trade and Industry
Mr Takafumi Kakudo, Ministry of International Trade and Industry
Mr Makoto Sugiura, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications
Mr Yasuki Hayashi, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications
Mr Tsuneo Kogure, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications
Mr Jyoji Oyabu, Ministry of Transport
Mr Ichiro Fujiwara, Ministry of Transport
Mr Yoshinobu Hara, Maritime Safety Agency
Mr Tomihiro Taniguchi, University of Tokyo

The size and rank of this delegation of this delegation shows that the
dangers of the Y2K computer problem are well known in your country.

However, as an observer of the G8 Seminar I got the impression that
the Japanese authorities ignore the particular risks of Y2K-related problems
in computer systems that control nuclear energy systems. Remember that the
worker who poured an excessive amount of uranium into a container in Tokaimura
did not even need a computer to make this catastropic mistake, but a computer
error in a nuclear power plant or an electricity network could lead to similar
or worse situations.

I have heard that in Japan, January is normally the month with the lowest
energy consumption of a year, and that the energy demand in winter is
affordable with electricity from thermal or hydroelectric power plants.

Thus I must urge you to have all nuclear installations in Japan disactivated
over the year 2000 rollover period. Reactors should best be stopped at the
beginning of December to allow a sufficient cooling period. Also, we should
make sure that cooling systems will keep running  by installing additional
generators in case of an electricity blackout I would like to ask you to
use the power and influence of your office to help minimize the risks that
may threaten the population of your country and to cooperate with your
partners in other countries to help make this planet a safer place.

---end---



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