Five nuclear reactors older than 40 years should shut down in Japan. The announcement comes just days after the fourth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. It responds to a plan adopted in 2013 by the Japanese government and that any nuclear reactor in operation for 40 years must be either revised or permanently closed.
In Japan, all nuclear reactors are shut down since the Fukushima disaster.
At the same time, in Sendai, in the northeast of the archipelago, held a summit of the UN on reducing disaster risk.
Several conference participants had the opportunity to visit a fishing cooperative plant strongly affected by the nuclear accident of March 11, 2011. Just after the Fukushima disaster, more than half of marine resources caught near this area were strongly radioactive.
It is situations like these that wish to avoid the UN and the countries participating in the conference. The purpose of their meeting: adopt a new global plan to reduce the risks of natural disasters exacerbated by climate change.
"This new plan will involve governments but also the private sector and civil society, says our special correspondent in Sendai, Serge Rombi. It also will set concrete targets for reducing the number of victims of course, but also cost. You should know that each year the bill for natural disasters in the world amounts to some 285 billion euros. "
