APEC Ministers Want Japan to Share #Fukushima Lessons, Stress Importance of Nuclear Energy for Economic Growth and Global Warming Countermeasure

By now, it should be obvious that these two statements may be mutually exclusive, because Japan (the government) clearly hasn't learned a lesson, the global economy may be tanking again into another "Great Recession" and global warming (anthropogenic one that the activists have been working on for the past decade or two) may not exist.

Nonetheless, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) made up of 21 Pacific Rim countries is gung-ho on nuclear energy as ever, with lip service to the Fukushima accident and nuclear safety.

After all, major nuclear exporters are all members of the APEC: the US, Canada, Japan, China, Russia. And a big uranium exporter (Australia), too.

From Jiji Tsushin (6/24/2012):

原発安全「日本の貢献を期待」＝福島事故の経験共有－ＡＰＥＣ宣言原案

Nuclear plant safety "Contribution from Japan looked for", and lessons from Fukushima accident to be shared, according to the APEC draft declaration

【サンクトペテルブルク時事】当地で２４日開幕するアジア太平洋経済協力会議（ＡＰＥＣ）エネルギー相会合で採択する共同宣言の原案が２３日、明らかになった。それによると、東京電力福島第１原発事故に対応してきた日本に「国際的にその知識や経験を共有することでの貢献を望む」として、原発事故の防止や安全対策などで主要な役割を果たすよう求めた。

(St. Petersburg, Jiji) The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Energy Ministers Conference is set to begin here on June 24. On June 23, the draft declaration to be adopted in the Conference was revealed. The declaration would call for Japan to "share the knowledge and experience from the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident with the international community" and to play a major role in prevention of nuclear accidents and devising safety measures.

原案は、アジア太平洋地域のエネルギー需要増大や地球温暖化問題への対応の観点から、原発の重要性を確認。そのために「原子力の平和利用における安全の重要性を認識する」と強調した。

The draft declaration recognized the importance of nuclear power plant from the standpoint of increasing energy demand in the Asia Pacific region and global warming. In order to deal with these issues, the draft emphasized that "the importance of safety in peaceful use of nuclear energy is to be recognized".

Let me see. The APEC members want to continue to build and use (and sell, for some members) nuclear power plants because the region needs more energy and it must fight (man-made) global warming. Therefore, the nuclear power plants must be safe. But the draft says the APEC "will recognize the importance of safety in the peaceful use of nuclear power."

So... is all it will do is to "recognize"? The importance of safety? And it is news?

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