Share this action on Facebook Share this action on Twitter UPDATE: Over the weekend, more than 27,000 people responded to this RootsAction message by sending emails to President Obama and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Please join in this urgent effort now. And to heighten our impact, share with your friends. ________________________________ "We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis." —Harvey Wasserman, author and activist Email the U.N. Secretary General and the U.S. President now! Fukushima’s owner, Tokyo Electric (Tepco), does not have the resources to handle 1,300 spent fuel rods now sitting in a badly damaged pool perched 100 feet in the air, with the potential to spew out more than 15,000 times as much radiation as was released at Hiroshima. The situation demands a coordinated worldwide effort of the best scientists and engineers our species can muster. Chernobyl’s first 1986 fallout reached California within ten days. Fukushima's in 2011 arrived in less than a week. A new fuel fire at Unit 4 would pour out a continuous stream of lethal radioactive poisons for centuries. Former Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata says of full-scale releases from Fukushima, "This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival." This crisis comes just as the Obama Administration is trying to provide a $8.3 billion loan to build the first new nuclear plants in the U.S. in almost 30 years. Tell President Obama to loan that $8.3 billion to a Fukushima emergency clean-up instead. Tell the United Nations to lead that effort immediately. Click to Email President Obama and Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Please forward this email to everyone! -- The RootsAction.org team P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven, and many others. P.P.S. This work is only possible with your financial support. Please donate. Background: Harvey Wasserman: Crisis at Fukushima 4 Demands a Global Take-Over AFP: Fukushima Dumps 1,000 Tons of Polluted Water into Sea www.RootsAction.org
