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Ex-Prem. Koizumi Calls on Japan to Abandon Nuclear Power - JIJI PRESS
Shinzo Abe is widely considered Koizumi's protege.Nagoya, Oct. 1 (Jiji Press)--Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Tuesday that Japan should abandon nuclear power.
"I'm calling for zero nuclear power," he said in a speech in the central Japan city of Nagoya.
The 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which triggered a severe nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s <9501> Fukushima No. 1 plant, should be taken as an opportunity to build a resource-recycling society without nuclear power, he said.
Nothing is costlier than nuclear power, Koizumi said. The consequence of a nuclear accident is enormous, and it takes 40 to 50 years to decommission a nuclear reactor, he said.
The popular former leader called on the government of current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to decide early to give up nuclear power.