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Anti-Nuclear Movement Growing in Asia
from the Christian Science Monitor
Yokohama, Japan -- Heonseok Lee has a simple way of describing how public sentiment toward nuclear power has changed in South Korea since the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last March 11.
"Before 3/11, I'd post an article criticizing the nuclear power industry, and right away there'd be hundreds of really nasty comments. After 3/11, there'll still be a few dozen. But not hundreds," says Lee, a full-time anti-nuclear activist in one of the world's most pro-nuclear countries.
Though nuclear power still has a strong foothold throughout the region, and public opinion is mixed, activists across Asia have anecdotes like this to show that anti-nuclear sentiment and protest are slowly growing from Mongolia, to South Korea to Taiwan and even--in modest ways--to China.
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