A familiar theme

Moving back to more familiar climes, here's yet another announcement about another meeting on nuclear power that's been scheduled. Huzzah.

原発再稼働抗議:首 相、２２日に市民団 体メンバーと面会

毎日新聞 2012年08月21日 21時01分 （最終更新 08月21日 21時13分）

野田佳彦首相は２２日午後、原発再稼働 への抗議活動を毎週金曜日に首相官邸前で 行っている市民団体のメンバーと官邸で 面会する。官邸ホームページでインター ネット中継する。当初は８日を予定してい たが、消費増税法をめぐる与野党対立の余 波で延期され、日程を再調整していた。

市民団体側は関西電力大飯原発（福井県 おおい町）を含めた全原発の停止や、脱原 発政策への転換などを求める見通し。首 相は政府の新たな「エネルギー・環境戦 略」に関し、将来的に原発依存度をゼロに する場合の課題を検討するよう指示したこ となどを説明し、当面の原発再稼働に理 解を求める考えだ。【岡崎大輔】

http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20120822k0000m010072000c.html

Protests against nuclear restart: Prime Minister to meet with members of citizen’s group on the 22 nd

Prime Minister Yoshihiro Noda is scheduled to meet with members of the citizen’s group that is holding rallies every Friday in front of the ministerial residence to protest the restart of nuclear reactors. This was announced online via the residence homepage. The original plan was to meet on the 8 th , but was postponed in the aftermath of the confrontation between the government and opposition over the consumption tax increase law and then rescheduled.

The citizen’s group is expected to seek the halting of operations of all nuclear reactors, including the Kansai Electric Ooi Reactor (in Ooi town in Fukui prefecture) as well as a change in government policy to abandon nuclear power. The prime minister is planning to explain his directive to study the topic of moving the country’s reliance on nuclear power towards zero in the government’s new energy and environmental strategy and ask for understanding of the present nuclear power restart.