Draft:Nuclear energy - The bright energy for the future (Slogan used in Japan)

Photo taken in 2013 after the earthquake (now removed)

Nuclear bright future energy is a slogan about nuclear power. I was standing across the road of the shopping street in front of Futaba Station. What was written on the signboard of Futaba-cho, Futaba-gun, Fukushima Prefecture became known nationwide as a negative legacy symbolising the safety myth due to the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred in 2011 [1].

概要

The Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was located across Okuma-cho and Futaba-cho, Futaba-gun, Fukushima Prefecture. Futaba Town publicly solicited slogans from the townspeople for the purpose of increasing the momentum of increasing the nuclear reactor [1]. As a result, slogans such as "Nuclear Bright Future Energy" devised by Yuji Onuma from Futaba Town, who was in the 6th grade of elementary school in 1987, was adopted [2] [3]. At that time, Mr. Onuma was full of hopes such as "the town will develop, the buildings will be lined up, and the Shinkansen will pass" due to the nuclear power plant [3].

Futaba-cho installed a signboard with those slogans in the centre of the town. When the first public relations tower was built in front of the shopping street in 1988, the two best points were displayed on the front and back, and this slogan was not used. However, in 1991, when the second publicity tower was built in front of the town hall, there was a replacement of the motto, and this slogan was raised in front of the shopping street [1]. The signboard has been regarded as a symbol of a town that has coexisted with nuclear power plants [2]. In particular, the "nuclear bright future energy" seen from National Route 6 was a symbolic landscape of Futaba Town, which promoted nuclear power [3]. Category:Futaba, Fukushima Category:Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Category:Mottos