AP, Mar 10, 2016 (emphasis added):
Fukushima ‘Decontamination Troops’ Often Exploited, Shunned — The ashes
of half a dozen unidentified laborers ended up at a Buddhist temple in
this town just north of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant… They were
simply labeled “decontamination troops” — unknown soldiers in Japan’s massive
cleanup campaign to make Fukushima livable again five years after radiation
poisoned the fertile countryside… One laborer… said he was instructed never
to talk to reporters… Minutes after chatting with some workers in Minamisoma,
Associated Press journalists received a call from a city official warning
them not to talk to decontamination crews… [W]orkers have developed diabetes,
cerebral and respiratory problems… local hospital intern Toyoaki Sawano
said in a medical magazine last month… Hideaki Kinoshita, a Buddhist monk
who keeps the unidentified laborers’ ashes at his temple [said] “There
is no end to this job… Five years from now, the workers will still be around.
And more unclaimed ashes may end up here.”
Mainichi, Mar 7, 2016: Experts divided on
causes of high thyroid cancer rates among Fukushima children — A total
of 166 children in Fukushima Prefecture had been either diagnosed with
thyroid cancer or with suspected cases of cancer… “Compared to the estimated
prevalence rates based on the country’s statistics on cancer, which are
shown in data including regional cancer registration, the level of thyroid
cancer detection is several dozen times higher (in children of Fukushima
Prefecture),” said the final draft for the interim report compiled by the
prefectural government’s expert panel on Feb. 15… [T]wo teams both concluded
that the number of cancer cases found in Fukushima children was “about
30 times” that of national levels [and] agree that the “30 times higher
(than the national occurrence rates)” is unexplainable. At the moment,
the most likely theories for such a high rate of cancer detection are the
“overdiagnosis theory” held by [the team led by Shoichiro Tsugane, a member
of the Fukushima government's expert panel] and the “radiation effect theory”
that [the team led by Okayama University professor Toshihide Tsuda] supports…
Tsugane is not completely denying the effects of radiation in children’s
cancer… [Tsuda] argues that radiation exposure is the main cause of the
high prevalence of cancer in children [and] because the spread of cancer
cells to lymph nodes and other tissues could be seen in 92 percent of patients,
Tsuda believes that overdiagnosis makes up 8 percent of the patients at
most…
RT
Mar 11, 2016: ‘Shocking how many people died in Fukushima‘ – documentary
director… Authorities in Japan want locals to think “nothing happened,”
documentary director Jeffrey Jousan told RT. “The government prints the
number of people who died as a result of the 2011 disaster in the newspapers…
the (death toll) amounts to 300-400 people in each prefecture, but in Fukushima
it is over 8,000 people… It is shocking… to see [how] many people have
died in Fukushima”… [I]t is still unclear how many people have succumbed
to or suffer from radiation-caused cancer diseases directly linked to the
crippled plant.
Watch Press Conferences: Prof. Tsuda | Dr. Angelika Claussen, physician
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１．Japan: Drone captures TONNES of nuclear waste being stored at Fukushima.
日本：無人機は福島に蓄えられている核廃棄物の山を捕らえる。2015
Millions of tonnes of radioactive soil and debris, filmed by drone footage,
can be seen packed in black bags in a temporary storage site at Tomioka,
Fukushima prefecture, Thursday.
２．全日本民医連のメンバーが、警戒区域が解除された町へ視察に入った。今回は、福島県いわき市から6号線を北上し、広野町(2011年9月に避難指示解除)、楢葉町(2012年8月に避難指示解除準備区域に移行)
富岡町(2013年3月に警戒区域から3つに再編) へと向かった。
３．日本メディアが報じない福島の除染問題！ 海外ジャーナリストが今の避難区域を大公開！
山積みの除染袋に並ぶ廃墟
When I visited Chernobyl for the first time 7 years ago, I didn’t think that a similar disaster could take place anywhere ever again, and certainly not in Japan. After all, nuclear power is safe and the technology is less and less prone to failure, and therefore a similar disaster cannot happen in the future. Scientists said this, firms that build nuclear power stations said this, and the government said this.
When I was planning my trip to Fukushima I didn’t know what to expect. There the language, culture, traditions and customs are different, and what would I find there four years after the accident? Would it be something similar to Chernobyl?
This photographic documentary is not intended to tell the story of the events surrounding the disaster yet again. Like the incident that occurred on 26 April 1986, most readers know the story well. It is worth mentioning one very important aspect, however, which is an essential issue as we consider the story further. It is not earthquakes or tsunami that are to blame for the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, but humans. The report produced by the Japanese parliamentary committee investigating the disaster leaves no doubt about this. The disaster could have been forseen and prevented. As in the Chernobyl case, it was a human, not technology, that was mainly responsible for the disaster.
As will be seen shortly, the two disasters have much more in common.
Immediately after the disaster at the Fukushima power station an area of 3 km, and later 20 km, was designated from which approximately 160 000 residents were forcibly evacuated. Chaos, and an inefficient system of monitoring radiation levels, resulted in many families being divided up or evacuated to places where the contamination was even greater. In the months and years that followed, as readings became more precise, the boundaries of the zone evolved. The zone was divided up according to the level of contamination and the likelihood that residents would return.
Four years after the accident more than 120 000 people are still not able to return to their homes, and many of them are still living in temporary accommodation specially built for them. As with Chernobyl, some residents defied the order to evacuate and returned to their homes shortly after the disaster. Some never left.
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