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A tremor away from nuclear disaster

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To UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano:

As global citizens, we call on you to take immediate steps to prevent another nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi Reactor #4. A pool of deadly radioactive cesium still sits exposed -- risking a nuclear catastrophe 10 times as bad as Chernobyl. The IAEA and the Japanese government must respond to this urgent global threat.
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A tremor away from nuclear disaster
I’m writing with a personal plea for help from Japan. A nuclear inspector recently said that if Fukushima's Reactor Number 4 collapses, the spread of radiation would go way beyond Japan's borders and be truly catastrophic. But if the global community steps in now -- we have a chance to stop it. 

The reactor was damaged in last year's earthquake and tsunami, and now a pool of highly dangerous spent nuclear fuel is being held in it’s crumbling structure. Experts say if another strong tremor collapses, the pool would emit such high radiation that my family and the 35 million people in Tokyo would be forced to evacuate, and it would contaminate the skies across the Pacific and into Asia. The Japanese government is failing to address the danger, but if enough of us call for an emergency plan from the UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), we can ensure the worst never happens.

The IAEA is meeting in Vienna in three weeks to discuss nuclear safety so we have to act now.  Click below to sign the petition and tell friends to join the call for action -- when we reach 100,000, our voices will be delivered straight to the IAEA meeting.

- Michiharu Honda, Campaign Director
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