"Stress
Test Meeting" Interrupted: Audience's Protest and Poignant Words
from A Fukushima Woman
On
January 18, 2012, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA)
held a hearing to discuss with a committee of experts the results of
the "stress test" for judging whether to restart Kansai
Electric's Ooi Nuclear Power Plant. The hearing was supposed to be
open to public, but at the last minute NISA decided to hold the
meeting in a separate room without the audience. The angry audience,
who were locked out in a room with a TV monitor, eventually rushed
into the meeting room and made a protest.
In the middle of the confusion, an unidentified woman from Fukushima came out of the audience. This video clip shows part of the protest from the audience and the woman's poignant words.
Before this hearing, three of the committee members were found to have received donations from a nuclear-related company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. One of them is Dr. Koji Okamoto, Professor of the University of Tokyo and Moderator of this meeting, to whom the woman from Fukushima addressed her last question.
The original, longer version (http://youtu.be/jIRqDsHJ3OY) was created by OurPlanet-TV, an independent net-based media.
In the middle of the confusion, an unidentified woman from Fukushima came out of the audience. This video clip shows part of the protest from the audience and the woman's poignant words.
Before this hearing, three of the committee members were found to have received donations from a nuclear-related company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. One of them is Dr. Koji Okamoto, Professor of the University of Tokyo and Moderator of this meeting, to whom the woman from Fukushima addressed her last question.
The original, longer version (http://youtu.be/jIRqDsHJ3OY) was created by OurPlanet-TV, an independent net-based media.
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