"I cry everytime I tell the story of this five-year-old girl because I'm also a mother, and I believe every mother would feel heartbroken when she sees this picture and hears the story," Sinan Mavivo, an anti-nuclear activist and resident of Lanyu, told a news conference in Taipei, while showing a picture of a five-year-old girl whose head was wrapped in gauze.

"When I first saw her, I thought she was wearing a mask, but no, it was gauze. She has to wear it because she has to undergo several treatments for brain tumor, and since she's so little, the procedure has to be done through her mouth," Sinan Mavivo said.

In a press release the general secretary Fe'iloakitau Tevi said "This irradiated sea water poses a lasting threat to Pacific ecosystems and the livelihoods of island communities who depend on the marine environment for their survival and sense of identity."

The council went further in condemning the use of nuclear power and called on "the international Community to advocate for the promotion and adoption of clean and renewable energy."

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Pacific Conference of Churches

While nuclear energy could be part of the solution to climate change because it does not release greenhouse gases, there are questions about safety and cost effectiveness. A single plant can cost more than $US 5 billion and if anything goes wrong thousands of people could be killed and land could be unusable for centuries

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Catholic News Service