70% of Japanese support PM's call to do away with nuclear power - poll

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http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Japanese_support_PMs_call_to_do_away_with_nuclear_power_-_poll.html?cid=30752904

Jul 24, 2011 - 10:38

Japanese support PM's call to do away with nuclear power - poll

TOKYO (Reuters) - More than two-thirds of Japanese support Prime Minister Naoto Kan's call to do away with nuclear power, a media poll showed on Sunday, underscoring growing opposition to atomic energy in the wake of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Earlier this month the unpopular Kan said the Fukushima crisis, triggered by the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami, had convinced him that Japan should wean itself from nuclear power and eventually have no atomic plants.

The Fukushima complex is still leaking radiation four months after the disaster and the public is growing increasingly anxious about the safety of other plants across quake-prone Japan.

A poll conducted this weekend by Kyodo news agency showed 70.3 percent support for Kan's call to wean the county off atomic energy, which accounted for nearly a third of the country's electricity output before the crisis.

[TatonkaJames]

1. Yeah, just like here in the U.S.A.

80 % want the wealthy to pay their share, so what do 70.3 % have a chance in changing things ?
People don't matter to these people anymore, when we truly realize that, then the revolution begins.