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“Fukushima Never Again”- film exposes cover-ups

Fukushima dirty bomb stories leaked, 300,000 children radiated daily http://www.examiner.com/article/fukushima-dirty-bomb-stories-leaked-300-000-children-still-being-radiated?CID=examiner_alerts_article
Examiner, OCTOBER 17, 2012 BY: DEBORAH DUPRE Fukushima energy refugee mothers’ and children’s stories are being leaked for the first time to Americans by a California filmmaker, who is returning to interview children, 300,00 of whom are still being radiated daily, according to an exclusive interview Sunday by Deborah Dupré when he explained it was like dirty bombs going off in Japan.

“We will get more of the stories from the Japanese people out to the United States,” said Fukushima Never Again director Steve Zeltzer about the government and industry coverup.

Zeltzer’s new powerful documentary is hailed as breaking “the information blockade” about the March 11, 2011 tsunami that hit the Tohoku area of northern part of Japan, exploding #3 reactor containing plutonium at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

That explosion was the second explosion after #1 reactor two days before and two more explosions followed shortly after those, as the documentary unforgettably details in the first scenes. Zeltzer, a journalist and radio host for KPFK radio out of San Francisco, has released two weeks ago his first documentary on the Fukushima humanitarian crisis, Fukushima Never Again, the first American film documenting the Japanese people’s voices. The chilling footage of Fukushima Never Again shows that after the nuclear catastrophe began, at a Oct. 28 Members of The House of Councellors Hall meeting, the question was asked, “Does the government have a plan to protect our children, or do they want to protect TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) instead?”

After that question, a moving and loud round of applause occurred, followed by an official’s answer and people shouting, “That’s not an answer!”

“You said you did decontamination in Watari, but the air radiation level got higher by scraping the soil,” said a woman from Watari told the officials. “And the children are going back and forth at the school in that condition.”

Watari is only one area children are continuing to be radiated in an island nation where the Rights of the Child have been violated for over a year through the manmade nuclear catastropheand coverup.

“There are still 300,000 children in the Fukushima area are being radiated,” Zeltzer said.

“Officials still say they are decontaminating the Fukushima area, but a Korean went to some of the schools that had been decontaminated and found it is still contaminated,” said Zeltzer.

“Lick it!” one woman cried out to officials. “Take some in your hand and lick it!”

She explained that children play in the soil and lick their hands.

The documentary allows voices of the people, including workers, to speak about the reality of the catastrophe and what this means not only for the people of Japan, but also for the people of the world as the US government and nuclear industry continue to push for more new plants and government subsidies.

Americans still do not recognize that Fukushima radiation continues to bombard the United States.

“There’s an increase in iodine in the United States,” Zeltzer said.

Fukushima ‘dirty bombs’

“What you had in Fukushima was like dirty bombs going on. There was a government-industry manmade dirty bombing of the entire area,” said Zeltzer.

According to Zeltzer, the U.S. drought posed a serious radiation and dirty bomb threat to unwitting Americans.

“Plants are cooled by water,” he said. “In France, 50 percent of their fresh water is used to cool their plants.”

“In the United States, 40 to 50 plants are still operating that should be put out of service,” Zeltzer said, adding, “There’s no real serious radiation detecting by this government as to how much radiation people are getting.

“The Japanese people wanted that and the government refused.”

Just like Japanese citizens, American citizens are forced to buy their own Geiger counters and radiation dosimeters to test their communities to learn if they were in danger, according to Zeltzer.

Zeltzer directed the documentary and Kazmi Torii edited it, both of whom are giving presentation in the United States with Fukushima mothers.

The documentary allows voices of the people, including workers, to speak about the reality of the catastrophe and what this means not only for the people of Japan, but also for the people of the world as the US government and nuclear industry continue to push for more new plants and government subsidies.

This film breaks the information blockade story line of the corporate media in Japan, the US and around the world that Fukushima is over.

“We’ve made the film available at no charge on YouTube because people everywhere need to know what’s really going on there,” Zeltzer said.

For an unforgettable dose of Fukushima radiation reality that might save lives, see Fukushima Never Again.

(Watch Fukushima Never Again here.)

Fukushima Never Again is also available in English and Japanese from Labor Video Project 
P.O. Box 720027 San Francisco, CA 94172 or by emailing 
lvpsf@laborvideo.org.

October 22, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual