SRS Watch director to speak in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan

GENSUIKIN, the Japanese group sponsoring the trip discusses the purpose of the meetings:

“Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs (GENSUIKIN) is a nation-wide anti-nuclear organization supported by labor unions and Hibakusha, survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, established in 1965. It has branched in all the prefectures. It organizes commemoration activities in Hiroshima and Nagasaki every August, the month when atomic bombs were dropped on those cities. The focus of its international panel discussion to be held in Hiroshima on 5 August this year is the effects of Japan’s policy of reprocessing spent fuel from nuclear power plants to separate plutonium, weapon usable material, on efforts to prevent proliferation and nuclear terrorism. Masa Takubo, convenor of the panel discussion, stresses that it’s absurd for Japan to start its Rokkasho reprocessing plant, capable of separating 8,000 kg of plutonium annually, without a prospect of consuming it after having asked the people in South Carolina to keep its 331kg of plutonium and declaring with the US at the Nuclear Security Summit held in DC in the spring:”It furthers our mutual goal of minimizing stocks of HEU and separated plutonium worldwide, which will help prevent unauthorized actors, criminals, or terrorists from acquiring such materials.”