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"Activists in the Bay Area are marking the 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with rallies, speakers, street theater, and educational events. Calling the Ukraine catastrophe "the most significant nuclear reactor failure in the history of nuclear power", anti-nuke enthusiasts say they want the world to remember that April 26, 1986 was the day when one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power station exploded, killing plant employees instantly and leading to a projected increase in cancer deaths in the hundreds of thousands. Tri-Valley CARES, Plutonium-Free Future and other groups concerned about the proliferation of nuclear power sponsored a panel discussion on April 10 in Oakland called "A Quarter Century of Chernobyl". The panel featured Russian women activists with first-hand experience in that nuclear reactor disaster. In Menlo Park, a community demonstration at the busy downtown intersection spilled over to a nearby outdoor cafe where lunchtime patrons became the audience for street theater with an anti-nuke message. "

"A Japanese antinuclear group announced Wednesday it will convene the first of its annual meetings on nuclear weapons elimination this summer in Fukushima Prefecture, home to the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on July 31. At the meeting in Fukushima city, the Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs, or Gensuikin, will also call for early containment of the nuclear crisis and a halt to all nuclear plants in Japan. The group has been calling for a nuclear-free world based on the country's experience of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."