Thursday, July 5, 2012

Nuclear plant protests in Japan - in pictures

Guardian: Protesters stage demonstrations across Japan as technicians at the Ohi nuclear facility on the country's west coast prepare to restart a reactor, the first to come back online since the Fukushima nuclear disaster that followed the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country last year. Restarting Japan's nuclear power stations will avert dire power shortages and sustain the economy, the prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, has said. But the issue has divided the country, resulting in an increasingly hostile...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/jul/02/nuclear-power-proests-japan-pictures
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/7/2/1341224887442/A-policeman-struggles-to--020.jpg

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