Japanese Environment Minister Wants His Country To Stop Nuclear Energy In Today's Memory, September 12, 2019

Shinjiro Koizumi (second from the left), a young Japanese politician who had served as Minister of Environment (2019-2021) and is now the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan. (Bloomberg)

JAKARTA Memories of today, six years ago, September 12, 2019, the Minister of the Japanese Environment, Shinjiro Koizumi wants his country to stop using nuclear power plants. He considers this energy to be efficient, but the danger is also extraordinary.

Previously, earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan changed everything in 2011. Japan, which has invested heavily in efforts to reduce the risk and impact of the earthquake. Nuclear reactors in Fukushima are broken.

No one doubts Japan's investment in earthquake prevention. The state owner understands that their country is often threatened with high-power earthquakes. They immediately cleaned up. They promote disaster adaptation.

A process of adjusting so that the Japanese people can survive and independently face disasters. The funds issued by Japan are not small. However, the large funds that come out are in accordance with the results. The Japanese people have been aversely protected from the impact of the earthquake.

The problem arises. Japan is not ready if the strength of the earthquake is too high. Take for example an earthquake measuring 9.0 on March 11, 2011. The big earthquake devastated Japan. Not to mention that the earthquake was followed by a tsunami wave.

The disaster caused 15 thousand casualties. There are also those who predict the actual number of people to reach 20 thousand. It will fall on a ladder. The earthquake and tsunami beat the Japanese prided nuclear power plant in Fukushima.

This condition made the Japanese people even more emergency. Nuclear radiation exacerbated the situation. People around the location were evacuated. This condition was while repeating the history that had occurred in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

The area around the location of the tub has turned into a Ghost City. Alias, no one exists besides the animals that have been exposed to nuclear radiation.

Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano announced the reach of the radiation safe zone extends from 20 to 40 kilometers from the generator. The Katsuraomura, Namiemaki, and litatemura areas as well as parts of Kawamatamachi and Minami-Soma are in the red zone. About 130 thousand people living within this zone must be evacuated within one month.

The Japanese government is indeed worried that Fukushima will become a mass grave like Chernobyl. At that time 50 rescue workers died from acute radiation and related diseases. Four thousand children and adolescents were affected by thyroid cancer, nine of whom died. More than 100 thousand people were evacuated and the number of refugees from contaminated areas finally reached 300 thousand," said Ninin Damayanti and Yomiuri Shimbun in their writings in Tempo magazine entitled Hantu Chernobyl in Fukushima (2011).

Recently, the incident in Fukushima began to be forgotten. The Japanese people have returned to their normal activities. Nuclear energy is again the prima donna. This condition made the newly appointed Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi concerned on September 12, 2019.

Koizumi thinks that Japan should stop using nuclear energy. This condition is because he does not want the Japanese people to feel the suffering of the same as the nuclear damage in Fukushima. He has no problem with his desire to go against other pro-nuclear officials.

I want to learn how we will throw it away, not how to keep it. We will be destroyed if we let a nuclear crash happen again. We never know when an earthquake will happen," Koizumi said as quoted by The Guardian's page, September 12, 2019.

Koizumi's desire to get opposition from everywhere. Most do not doubt Koizumi's view. However, Koizumi was asked to think that without nuclear, Japan's future would be a big question, Japan still exists or not.