Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2026

Posted: 9th March 2026

Wales is once again in the crosshairs for new nuclear power projects but citizens there have fought off previous attempts and won and they are gearing up again to say “Niwclear, dim diolch” (Nuclear, no thanks). And as we approach 15 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the lives of displaced people there must not be forgotten.

No nukes in Wales!

The Welsh anti-nuclear movement is gearing up for a new fight as the Westminster government in England begins contracting companies such as Rolls-Royce to build new reactors in Wales. Welsh activists have been down this road before and chased off a whole series of corporations that threatened to put new reactors at the Wylfa site. Now they are reaching across the Atlantic to form partnerships with whom to share strategies and resources in the battle to stop nuclear power expansion. READ MORE

Radiation-free is a human right

Akiko Murimatsu has been living as a radiation refugee ever since the March 11, 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, an “internally displaced person,” exiled with her two children from all she loves for their own safety. At the time of the disaster, her community was not warned of the dangers. “It was only later that I realized I had exposed my children to radiation,” she writes. Today, she is a persistent advocate for the displaced, noting that “living free from radiation exposure is a fundamental human right.” READ MORE

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