Nuclear power plants produce the same radioactive material that was produced by the nuclear bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
We believe that it is precisely because Japan knows the horror of nuclear weapons that it should abandon nuclear power, which produces radioactive waste that cannot be disposed of, leaks radiation into the environment and entails a high risk of nuclear accidents.
Even if they operate without accidents, what nuclear power plants leave to future generations is nothing but polluted oceans, abandoned reactors and nuclear waste.
Young generations do not want such things. Things which threaten life in this way cannot be given the label "peaceful use".
We feel very sad that Japan is trying to export these things.
The people who have nuclear power plants foisted upon them will suffer as a result.
But in Japan the government and the nuclear power companies conceal the facts about nuclear energy, so we suspect that the average person has little interest in nuclear exports.
For this reason, having found out about these things, now that we have finished our hunger strike we will work to expand the opposition to new nuclear power plants and nuclear exports with the aim of bringing about a phase out of nuclear energy.
We want to expand the movement among young people like ourselves, who are particularly vulnerable to the effects of nuclear power.