Let's send postcards to the elected officials in Fukushima, and demand that they halt the discharge of the radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility into the Pacific Ocean!

• Here are the key Fukushima officials:

Governor Masao Uchibori
Fukushima Prefectural Hall
2-16 Sugitsuma-cho
Fukushima-city
Fukushima    960-8670
JAPAN

Mayor Shiro Izawa
Futaba-machi Town Hall
Machinishi 73-4, Nagatsuka
Futaba-machi, Futaba-gun
Fukushima    979-1495
JAPAN

Mayor Jun Yoshida
Okuma-machi Town Hall
Minamidaira, Ogawara
Okuma-machi, Futaba-gun
Fukushima    979-1306
JAPAN

• PDF files of the front and the back of the postcard can be downloaded here.
You can use print-on-demand services such as Vistaprint to make the postcards. The size of the postcard is 5.5" x 4.25".
• Write your name and address, and add postage of $1.45 (for sending from US to Japan). Let's send one postcard per recipient. Write your own messages in the blank areas, and please be respectful.
• Please share the photos of your postcards on social media. Don’t forget to tag us: @mpnuclearfree (Twitter) or @mp.nuclear.free (Instagram and Facebook).
We would like to concentrate our efforts during the year of 2023.

• Background info
On April 13, 2021, the Japanese government announced that it will start discharging more than 1.3 million metric tons (350 million gallons) of radioactive “treated” wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi into the Pacific starting from the spring of 2023. The dumping will continue for three decades or more. The “treated” water contains radioactive isotopes due to some being used to cool the highly radioactive melted cores of nuclear reactors. Tritium and carbon-14 cannot be filtered out at all. Three independent human rights experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council expressed deep regret at Japan’s decision. Fukushima residents, fisheries associations, most of Fukushima’s districts, and many anti-nuclear groups in and outside Japan expressed their opposition to the plan. Henry Puna, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, calls for the Japanese government to hold off on any such release.
   The dumping practice will become a bad precedent, and other nuclear power plants across the globe might follow the practice.
   The dumping of this radioactive wastewater would cause irreparable damage to our planet, and will affect everything from the smallest creatures in the water to our human living conditions and everyday lives.
Join our #StopTepco global campaign to demand “Don’t Nuke the Pacific!” Let’s protect our Ocean! No Nukes!

• Resources
The Dangers of Tritium by Dr. Ian Fairlie: https://youtu.be/90tnl7TfkGM
Tritium Expose – Fairewinds Podcast: https://www.fairewinds.org/podcast/tritium-expose
Petition to the Japanese government to halt the dumping plan: https://www.mp-nuclear-free.com/Fukushima/20220803.html
Impact of nuclear testing in the Pacific: https://youtu.be/b7Qocjasw24
Voice from the Pacific Islands Forum: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/04/japan-must-work-with-the-pacific-to-find-a-solution-to-the-fukushima-water-release-issue-otherwise-we-face-disaster Japan plans to seek G7 endorsement on discharge of Fukushima treated water (Japan Times)
Fukushima residents feel left out in TEPCO’s water plan (Asahi Shimbun): The discharge from the underground tunnel might start in spring or summer.
Position Paper by the National Association of Marine Laboratories: Scientific opposition to Japan’s planned release of over 1.3 million tons of radioactively contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean commencing in 2023