My Nuclear Neighbour on NHK
December 22, 2011 By Josh Leave a Comment
Our documentary ‘My Nuclear Neighbour’ that explores the nuclear power debate in Canada will be airing on NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, starting in the Spring.
The hunger for information about all things Nuclear is at an all-time high, but probably nowhere more than in Japan.
Following the disaster at the Fukushima power plant, tensions surrounding nuclear power have grown. Tens of thousands of people, (some say over 100,000) in the area surrounding the plant are displaced from radiation fears, and decontaminating and decommissioning the plant is estimated to take more than 40 years.
As a result a group of Japanese mothers have come together to protest the government at the lack of transparency over the disaster and associated issues, read about it here at the Guardian.
And Read More from Time and the New York Times.
