Why Nuclear?

I remember it was in 90's that the excuse for nuclear propulsion changed drastically.
When I was a child teachers used to tell me "Nuclear power should be promoted because the amount of oil is limited". However as soon as people recognized that oil and natural gas are more abundance than they had imagined the excuse was substituted abruptly by "global warming".
As some of you may be aware the real reason is not such a peaceful one. A country which can run nuclear power plants can easily develop the technology to manufacture an atomic bomb in case it is required. That's why Japan has been eagerly promoting nuclear power.
In this sense Japanese electric power companies including TEPCO, which is struggling with uncontrollable monsters (they used to be called nuclear reactors) at Fukushima, might have been victims.

from Tokyo

Fukushima， Happy Island Again

"Fukushima", the place which is being spoiled by radioactivity of broken nuclear reactors, seems to have become one of the most well-known districts in Japan like Hiroshima and Nagasaki in opprobrious sense. "Fukushima" seems to have become synonymous with nuclear accident.
"Fuku" means "happy". "Shima" is an island. So "Fuku-shima" is a "Happy Island" although its history and its current status have not been so happy.
The district, in which four broken nuclear reactors are emitting radioactive substances continuously, had been a very poor underpopulated area until Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) decided to build a nuclear power station there. TEPCO has created a very stable local employment and paid enough money to change this town as rich as an urban area in exchange for its residents' risk. It might have been a rich town worth named "happy island" as long as the reactors were safely controlled.
People who once had a deal with the devil might be doomed to go to hell. However it's too early to call it fate. Now more than a million of people are living peacefully in Hiroshima, 0.4 million in Nagasaki although scientists believed that no creature would be able to live there including the strongest plants within decades when these cities were destroyed and polluted by atomic bombs.
I believe someday refugees will go back to their town to live again there.
I'm sure we can do it.

from Tokyo

TOKYO is Safe

I would like to say thank you to all the support to Japan from the world. However I would like to let you know that the area destructed by tsunami was less than 1 % of whole Japan although it seems to have been reported as if whole Japan was damaged.
Japan can revive soon. More than 99% of Japan including Tokyo is ready to reconstruct this country or they have already started it.
Looking at the world map, Japan appears as small as California Peninsula of northern America. Hence most people of the world seem to misunderstand as if Tokyo is almost next to Fukushima, where broken reactors are located. That's why some of panicked foreign residents have evacuated from here and a lot of visitors from overseas have cancelled their trip to Tokyo.
Don't worry. Be calm. Tokyo is more than 150 miles away from Fukushima. It would take three hours to access broken reactors by the fastest car. Fortunately radioactivity still remains within the level as low as residents including children and babies can live in health here in Tokyo although it's a little bit higher than before. It's rather lower than that of Hawaii or Rome.
Tokyo is perfectly safe and most of its residents including myself are living in peace so far. Every little thing including air, water, as well as food is not polluted here besides bad rumors and its effect on our mind. As for first food chains and supermarket chains, food safety is guaranteed by private companies through daily radioactivity monitoring although people don't trust the official announcements released by the unreliable government.
Tokyo is safe.
Come to see us.

from Tokyo