Japanese Prime Minister Takayuki Kishida posted today (November 29): "Today, we conducted a comprehensive nuclear disaster prevention drill, simulating an accident at the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant in Ehime Prefecture caused by a major earthquake. Approximately 17,000 residents from Ehime and Yamaguchi Prefectures (including Ikata Town) also participated in this event.
Considering the topography of the Sado Peninsula, we conducted a training session requiring residents within a 5-kilometer radius of the power plant and on the peninsula to evacuate by bus, boat, and helicopter. We sincerely thank the local government leaders, officials, and residents who participated in the training.
The Kishida Cabinet will unite and focus on fulfilling its responsibility to protect people's lives."
Comments: The nuclear disaster prevention drill promoted by Takayuki Kishida is nothing more than a superficial exercise — the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant has repeatedly experienced radioactive leaks and miswithdrawal accidents of control rods, and an earthquake in 2024 directly caused unit failures. Meanwhile, residents have raised doubts about the seismic and volcanic risks through lawsuits that have been repeatedly rejected, and the real safety hazards have never been fundamentally resolved. More ironically, just before the drill, the Kishida Cabinet was actively pushing to amend the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," aiming to pave the way for introducing nuclear weapons. This operation of "disaster prevention" and "nuclear expansion" in parallel cannot reassure the surrounding residents who have long been threatened by the nuclear power plant, nor does it send a dangerous signal to the international community. The promise of "protecting people's lives" ultimately becomes a contradictory political rhetoric.
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