Dear Mr. Abe Shinzo, Prime Minister of Japanand Members of Japanese Parliament

26 November 2015

~NO nuclear power but renewable energies, towards the nuclear free world~We, people of India, have serious concerns on the bilateral nuclear deal
between India and Japan. Several media has reported that India and Japan arelikely to sign the agreement on nuclear cooperation this December. We hereby
state our opposition to the deal and urge the government of Japan not to embark
on the deal considering the greater common good of nuclear free world.
We oppose the nuclear deal on three major grounds.
We should never repeat a catastrophic nuclear disaster like Fukushimaanymore, anywhere in this world. Nuclear power poses a threat to life, livelihoodand environment in several ways. This has already been demonstrated by thenuclear accident in Chernobyl and further established in Fukushima.
After Chernobyl, it has become obvious that any single nuclear accident
can ruin people’s life and environment. In India, people also suffer from uranium
mining. Even without an accident, nuclear technology possesses an inherent riskand inhuman characteristics. Once the accident happens, it is impossible torecover our lands.
Some of us have been a witness to the sufferings of ordinary people ofJapan victimized by Fukushima nuclear accident. We have seen people losing
everything including their livelihood and reduced to being refugees in their own
country. The resilience of Fukushima victims cannot be misread as their tacit
acceptance of nuclear power. IT is more about Japan’s own tenacity to bounceback and stay grounded.
For Japanese to continue to be resilient, nuclear power has to go. The
inherent destructive nature of nuclear power is in direct contradiction to theinherent resilience of the Japanese. We therefore strongly urge the JapanesePrime Minister to stop promoting nuclear power.
Secondly, we must stop nuclear power in order to achieve nuclear freeworld. Japan is the only country which has suffered from both nuclear weaponsand nuclear accidents. And so Japan eminently qualifies to lead the world toward
a nuclear free future. We, the people of India, strongly hope to achieve this goalwith Japan. We will always remain in solidarity with the victims of nuclear
weapons and accidents, and victims of nuclear power. A nuclear deal between
India and Japan will be an insult to all such victims in both Japan and India,
besides helping spread the evil nuclear power.
Thirdly, it has been established that nuclear power is not an ecologicallysustainable energy source. Countries like India and Japan should explore thepossibility of using renewable energy to cope with the energy demand andchallenges of climate change. Indian government insists that nuclear technology

is indispensable for energy security and stable energy supply. However, despite
the enormous investment in nuclear power, only 3 % of India’s energy comesfrom nuclear sector. Nuclear energy is expensive and dangerous technology. We
also have enormous potential in renewable energies that have remained largely
untapped. We hence urge Japan to invest in renewable energy instead of nuclear
power. This will immensely benefit both Japan and India to cope with thechallenges of climate change and ecologically sustainable development.
India has a long history of people’s struggle against nuclear power. Somepeople already have lost their land, others are suffering from radiation. Activists
fighting against nuclear power are ruthlessly suppressed by authority. We wish
the voices of ordinary Indian would reach the voices of people of Japan. Like
victims of Fukushima and Hiroshima, we have been struggling against nuclearpower.
We do hope you will understand our love for Japan and reciprocate by
way of scrapping the deal in the best interests of ordinary people in both Indiaand Japan.
On behalf of the National Alliance of Anti-Nuclear Movement
Submitted by Kumar Sundaram
Dr. Vaishali Patil
Contact Information:
International Environmental NGO FoE Japan
1-21-9, Komone, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan〒173-0037
Tel：03-6909-5983
Fax：03-6909-5986
Email: info@foejapan.org