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Displaced Fukushima survivors come to terms with never going home again

“Ukraine and especially Belarus are not known for their nuclear safety, so the establishment of the one milliseivert factor is amazing in comparison to what the nuclear savvy government of Japan is proposing,” said Bøhmer.

FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, Japan – Two years ago on March 11, Hiroshi Kanno, 72, was fixing the roof of his garlic drying shed on his farm near the village of Iitate in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture when he heard what he called a sound in the earth that echoed off the jagged mountains whose trees were just beginning to show signs of spring foliage amid a light snow cap.

Charles Digges, 11/03-2013

Immediately he sensed an earthquake. He was right.

“The buildings started jumping, my little truck started dancing and I was thrown to the ground,” he told Bellona in an interview on the second anniversary of the disaster at the Fukushima Daichii Nuclear Power Plant here in Fukushima City, to where he was relocated.

“As I was on the ground, I could feel the earth moving in my hands,” he said. “The vibrations lasted for 10 minutes.”

When it was apparent the worst of the tremors had ended, he jumped in his truck and drove to is farmhouse and fortunately found it still standing.  But there was no electricity, or phone and mobile towers had been destroyed. He returned to the television he had in his truck to get information, and heard there was an imminent threat of a tsunami.

Hiroshi Kanno speaking with Bellona in Fukushima City.

Nils Bøhmer/Bellona

The 9.0 earthquake off the coast of eastern Japan ultimately claimed 15,881 lives, and according to figures release by Japanese media today, some 2668 still missing, the Japan Times reported Monday. Some 160,000 were set adrift from Fukushima prefecture over the ensuing days due to radiation leaks.

As Kanno was only 35 kilometres from Fukushima Daichii, he said his worries went directly on the fate of the nuclear plant. The 11-meter tsunami did come, and destroyed all power to the plant leading to three reactor meltdowns and enormous cast-offs of radiation.

 “I was more worried about what would happen to the nuclear power plant than even cities,” he said. The next day brought even more bad news. He watched on television as hydrogen explosions destroyed the reactor buildings of the Fukushima plant’s reactor Nos 1, 2 and 3, signalling meltdowns. He also worried for the fate of Fukushima prefecture’s other nuclear power plant, Fukushima Daini, which switched off during the quake.

“Had both plants gone, it would have taken half of Japan,” he said.

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The Hanford Nuclear Salute – UP YOURS (by artrant)

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Published on 10 Mar 2013

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東北地方太平洋沖地震 3/11 (Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami) Memorial in Kobe, Japan

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Published on 11 Mar 2013

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Fukushima Workers Target of Hate in Japan

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Low level radiation increased leukaemia risk for nuclear cleanup workers

November 16, 2012

Chernobyl study shows need for caution in Fukushima
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121114f2.html# UKO27Xhzxqg.twitter Kyodo A study released Thursday by a U.S. research team links protracted exposure to low-level radiation to a higher risk of leukemia among workers engaged in the cleanup of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and points to the need to protect those involved in dealing with the Fukushima crisis.
In the U.S. study, scientists did a follow up health
survey covering 110,645 clean up workers through 2006 and found 137
developed leukaemia…….

https://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/16/low-level-radiation-increased-leukaemia-risk-for-nuclear-cleanup-workers/

Fukushima workers with high internal radiation doses

High thyroid radiation doses in 178 Fukushima workers Asahi Shimbun, December 01, 2012
By YURI OIWA Dozens of workers received potentially cancerous doses of radiation to
their thyroid glands during recovery work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to data submitted to the World Health
Organization.

Tests on workers suspected of having high whole-body internal doses
found 178 individuals whose thyroid glands displayed doses greater
than 100 millisieverts, the generally accepted threshold for a raised
risk of thyroid cancer…….

https://nuclear-news.net/2012/12/03/fukushima-workers-with-high-internal-radiation-doses/

Exploitation of workers at Fukushima nuclear plant

Asahi: Fukushima workers report exploitation — Told to be like kamikaze — Large numbers leaving — “I wonder if we can raise children” http://enenews.com/asahi-fukushima-workers-report-exploitation-told-to-be-like-kamikaze-large-numbers-leaving-i-wonder-if-we-can-raise-children
December 9th, 2012 
Title: Worker wants new government to secure safety at Fukushima plant 
Source: AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
Author: Miki Aoki and Toshio Tada
Date: December 09, 2012

A man in his 50s hopes that a new government to be formed after the Dec. 16 Lower House election will protect the health of workers like himself at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant […]

The man said workers at the Fukushima No. 1 plant are being exploited. […]

“Many people work without seeing a doctor because they fear they might be told not to come anymore from the next day,” he said. “It is a distortion caused by the layers of subcontractors involved. I want the government to protect us.” […]Man in his 40s who worked at the plant until recently……

https://nuclear-news.net/2012/12/10/exploitation-of-workers-at-fukushima-nuclear-plant/

Shortage of workers at Fukushima nuclear plant resulted in high radiation exposure

Worker shortages revealed at nuclear plant after disaster
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T130113003104.htm   14 Jan
A manager’s calls for reinforcements to help contain a series of
crises at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power
plant were ignored, newly released TEPCO teleconference footage has
revealed…..

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/01/14/shortage-of-workers-at-fukushima-nuclear-plant-resulted-in-high-radiation-exposure/

Workers say Fukushima radioactive debris dumped in a river

Fukushima cleanup workers break silence: Ordered to dump ‘debris’ into river — Gov’t “appeared not to believe him”http://enenews.com/fukushima-cleanup-workers-break-silence-ordered-to-dump-debris-into-river-govt-appeared-not-to-believe-him
March 2nd, 2013
 Asahi Shimbun,, March 1, 2013: CROOKED CLEANUP: Workers break silence to allege boss ordered corner-cutting […] Three laborers involved in radioactive cleanup around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have alleged that a supervisor told them to dump debris in a river […] At a news conference in the Diet building on Feb. 28, the men said a foreman ordered them to discard fallen branches and leaves into a river in an upland forest in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, in November 2012.  […] this is the first time that decontamination workers have publicly come forward. […] The third man, in his 40s, said he related what had happened to officials at the Environment Ministry. He spoke to them for more than an hour, he said, but they appeared not to believe him. […]
See also: Asahi: River turned brown after dumping radioactive waste into water — “I was following an order, I am sorry for polluting

Misleading information masks true level of radiation received by Fukushima workers

63 workers exposed to higher radiation than logged in their records,
March 02, 2013, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN  by Toshio Tada and Jun Sato
Dozens of workers at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant
were exposed to radiation levels higher than those registered in their
personal records, according to a health ministry investigation.

Misleading information was kept in at least 63 cases….. In the
largest discrepancy, one worker’s monthly exposure was revised from
4.4 millisieverts to 6.35 millisieverts. Those whose records are not
updated could end up working at a nuclear facility beyond the legal
annual limits for radiation exposure.

The number of workers with inaccurate personal radiation exposure
records is expected to increase because the ministry has yet to start
an investigation into the eight-month period immediately following the
disaster that unfolded in March 2011….

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/04/misleading-information-masks-true-level-of-radiation-received-by-fukushima-workers/

High radiation levels prevent workers from entering Fukushima nuclear reactors

Inside Fukushima two years on: radiation levels too high to enter reactors Telegraph UK, 6 March 13, Two years on from the second-worst nuclear disaster in history, The Telegraph’s Julian Ryall visits the Fukushima nuclear plant to see what progress – if any – is being made. By Julian Ryall, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Japan

Scientists still do not have a firm understanding of the precise conditions of the reactor cores in three of the six units at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, and are resorting to using remote-controlled vehicles to get inside the tangle of wires, pipes and rubbles that has lain untouched since the tsunami tore through the facility….

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/07/high-tadiation-levels-prevent-workers-from-entering-fukushima-nuclear-reactors/

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Messages from Japan for Anti-Nuclear Campaigners in London demonstration 9 March 2013

Messages from Japan for Anti-Nuclear Campaigners

This was the last speech given by Mia (JANUK) on behalf of the following..

武藤類子　　原発いらない福島の女たち、福島原発告訴団団長、フクシマ・アクション・プロジェクト共同代表　　福島県在住

Ruiko Muto,　Fukushima resident  On behalf of Fukushima Women Against Nuclear Power, Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Plaintiffs & Fukushima Action Project

イギリスのみなさまへ
福島原発事故から早くも2年が経とうとしています。
しかし、この事故は未だに終わっていません。
破壊された4つの原子炉からは、毎日2億4000万ベクレルの放射 性物質が空中に放出されています。その中で、夥しい被曝をしながら収束作業をする労働者たち。
効果が期待できない除染、進まない賠償、未だに放射線管理区域と同じ放射線量の場所に留めおかれる子どもたち。
更に県外避難者に対する住宅支援制度の打ちきり、IAEAの国際会議の開催、原発推進の新政府の誕生など、私たちの怒りと悲しみが尽きることはありません。
しかし、遠いイギリスに私たちを想い、私たちとつながる行動をして下さる方々がいることは、とても嬉しいことです。
世界のどこででも、悲惨な原発事故をこれ以上起こしてはいけません。
危険な原発をとめられるのは、ひとりひとりの市民です。
あなたであり私です。ともに歩んで行きましょう。

Ladies and gentlemen, it is a great pleasure to send my message to all of you who have gathered here today in London.

It has been two years since the onset of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.  However, this nuclear crisis is far from over.  Every day, highly damaging amounts of ionizing radiation are released into the environment from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. At this plant, the workers – our husbands, brothers and sons are daily exposed to high concentrations of radioactivity.

The great majority of decontamination projects in Fukushima Prefecture have not yet started.

Many children are trapped in highly contaminated areas due to the government policy.

Radioactivity in these areas is comparable to, or above the level of the current compulsory evacuation zone in Chernobyl.

Housing assistance for evacuees living outside Fukushima prefecture is to be terminated to influence them to return to contaminated areas.

The International Atomic Energy Agency and the Japanese Government jointly held a conference in Fukushima and discussed ways to conceal the extent of nuclear devastation.

The New Japanese government is also eager to expand unclear technology.

This all adds to the anger and despair in our hearts.

It is however a great comfort to know that far away, in London, people are standing beside us.

We must never allow the tragedy of Fukushima to be repeated.

It is people like you and I who can stop the dangerous development of nuclear power.  We would like to walk with every one of you towards a nuclear-free society.

Thank you.

鎌田慧（作家・ジャーナリスト）　さよなら原発1000万人アクション・呼びかけ人

Satoshi Kamata, Author, journalist, and co-organizer of the petition, “10 Million Signatures for Nuclear Free Society”

「つながろうフクシマ！さようなら原発３・９大行動」に、海を越えた英国の地で、ともに立ち上がった皆さん。
わたしたちは日本にいて、この運動がヨーロッパ各国でも、同時に行動を起こしたひとたちがいることに、大いなる信頼と勇気を感じています。
あらたに発足した安倍政権は、これからのエネルギー政策を策定するにあたって、福島原発大事故に学ぼうとはせず、なんら反省もなく、またも や原発推進政策に逆戻りしようとしています。この非人道的、非論理的な姿勢に、私たちはノンを突きつけます。爆発した福島原発から、自然界に大量に放出さ れた放射能は、日本の空と海と川を汚し、大地と森と林から人間を追い出し、そこに住んでいた人たちを半永久的 に追放しました。故郷を奪われたひとたちは、困難な生活と精神 的な打撃に苦しんでおります。核汚染はアジアの列島を越え地球的な規模でひろがっています。
事故から二年の歳月が経ってなお、海から高濃度の放射能を含んだ魚が続々と水揚げされています。子どもの甲状腺がんも発見されはじめました。ジリジリと核 汚染の恐怖がひろがっています。原発事故の収束に当っている下請け、孫請け労働者に被曝の被害が現れるのは、これからです。
このような人間存在にとってもっとも悲劇的な状況があらわれ、解決の道が指し示されないままに、安倍政権は経済的な利益のためだけに休止中の原発の再稼働 を容認しようとしています。すでに原発は未来のない産業として、廃炉が必至になっているにも関わらずです。危険性ばかりか、原発に依存する経済破綻は時間 の問題にすぎません。
私たちは、瞬時の欲望よりも、持続可能な生活を求めます。人間を犠牲にする経済よりも、人間に優しい生活を望みます。人間ばかりか、あらゆる生きとし生けるものを大事にし、ともに生きることを望みます。
核爆弾を商業利用するという、神を恐れぬ欲望は、 科学技術への過信にすぎません。核分裂は人類の力で制御できるものではないことが、 スリーマイル、チェルノブイリ、そしてフクシマと連続した過酷事故で証明されています。さらにまた事故を繰り返すとしたなら、それは人間の思い上がりと愚 鈍さの証明であって、地球と人類とを滅ぼす犯罪であります。
私たちは、原発依存から脱却する政策転換を求めて、この二年間、良識的なひとびとともにささやかな運動を続けてきました。国内、国外の理性的な人々との熱い連帯の力で、必ず人間の未来を破滅させる原発産業からの脱却をかちとります。
苦難の人生を歩むことになったフクシマのひとたちと手を結び、支え、ともに苦難を引き受け、力をあわせて原発から解放される、新たな社会にむかって歩みましょう。

Ladies and gentlemen, it is a great honour to address all of you who have gathered here today in solidarity with Fukushima and our anti-nuclear movement.  Your actions to support us across Europe give us courage and strength.

The new Japanese government is debating an Energy Bill with total disregard to the tragedies and lessons from the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.  They are returning to the old pro-nuclear stance that resulted in the current disaster.  We say “No!” to such inhumane and insane policies.

Since the explosions at Fukushima Daiichi, ionizing radiation has contaminated everything.  It’s poisoned the air, the sea, the rivers, the soil, and the forests.  It has driven people from their beautiful land and beloved homes for ever.  The people are suffering, both materially and spiritually.  The radiation has also been spreading across the globe.

The terror of nuclear damage is continuing to emerge.  Fish are still highly contaminated, and some children have already developed thyroid cancer.  In no time, we will be hearing about nuclear casualties amongst workers in the clean-up operation.  Despite such profound tragedies, with no end in sight, the new government is poised to restart nuclear reactors for short term economic gains.  Nuclear energy has no future and is destined to become extinct.  It is extremely dangerous.  It will soon destroy its nuclear-dependent economies.

We want to exchange materialism for sustainability.  We want to live in harmony with others rather than sacrificing them.  We want to live with respect for all living things around us.

Nuclear power is a by-product of nuclear weapon making.  It is a crime against life, and a blind worship of man’s ability to manipulate nature.  Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima have proven that we cannot control nuclear fission.  Repeating the same mistake would be criminal and a proof of our fatal arrogance and ignorance.  How many more disasters can we have before annihilating ourselves and the earth?

Over the past two years, we have been campaigning for a nuclear free society, with help from many conscientious and rational people like you here, both within and outside Japan. Nuclear power will destroy our future if we allow it to continue, but together, we shall get rid of it!

Together, let us stand with the people of Fukushima who bear the major burden of nuclear brutality.  Let us show our solidarity by joining in their struggle.  We are walking towards a nuclear free world.  Thank you.

山本太郎（俳優、脱原発キャンペーナー）

Taro Yamamoto, Actor, anti-nuclear/anti-radiation campaigner

世界原子力マフィア主要国であるイギリスで声を上げ続ける皆さんへ、原子力マフィアの奴隷国日本から同じ志を持つ沢山の仲間たちよりエールを送ります。
この問題を放って置いて墓場には行けない！
次の世代、未来の子どもたちに光ある世界を渡す為に僕たちは闘う。
世界を何度も終わらせるのに充分な核が日本には存在する。
TEPCOの失敗は無かった事にされ、経済界、産業界、政界、司法、Mediaが一体となり、地震国の地震活動期に、原子力まだまだヤル気マンマンです。
世界の未来を諦めた1%の金の亡者の為に我々が犠牲になる事は許されない。
一つに繋がって大きな力に！
イギリスの同志に心からの愛とリスペクトを。

Hello everyone!

Many fellow Japanese citizens and myself salute you in solidarity.  We have been protesting against nuclear power in Japan, a nuclear slave state.  You have been campaigning against nuclear energy in Britain, a major nuclear master state.

We must not die before getting rid of the nuclear curse.  We will fight for our children and future children so that they can live in a world full of hope.

Japan has enough nuclear materials to annihilate the world many times over.  The unfolding nuclear catastrophe in Japan is being ignored, and TEPCO’s crime remains unpunished.

The Japanese nuclear empire is powerful. In collusion with the financial, industrial, political, legal and media sectors, they are poised to continue nuclear development.  This, despite the fact Japan is a land of earthquakes and is undergoing an active seismic phase.

It is unacceptable that we, the 99%, are sacrificed for the greedy 1%.  They love nothing but money and do not care about the future.

We are all united against the nuclear evil.

We send to you all in Britain our warmest support and heart-felt respect from Japan.

No Nukes!  Thank you!

[Translated by Satsuki, (JAN member)]

h/t Mia http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/

http://januk.org/blogpages/message.html

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Managing Public Perceptions of Fukushima: First Emergency Response of the Nuclear Complex

Dr. Robert Jacobs,

After the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the world became aware that exposure to radiation could cause sickness and death. However, the United States government was able to limit this awareness through the careful managing of public perceptions. It was the prompt burst of gamma radiation from the detonation of a nuclear weapon that caused the radiation sickness among the hibakusha, the survivors of the nuclear attacks claimed US experts. This prompt burst lasted only seconds following the moment of detonation. The fact that people continued to live in Hiroshima & Nagasaki after the attacks seemed to reinforce this belief. The truth is that even before these attacks, after the Trinity Test in July 1945 Manhattan Project employees had traced the deposit of downwind radioactive fallout in the area surrounding the test site. Cardboard boxes made from strawboard from a field over 1,000 miles away in Illinois that had been contaminated with fallout from the Trinity Test had blurred film later packed in the boxes by the Eastman Kodak company.¹

Rongelapese (Marshall Islands) child exposed to radiation from the Bravo Test

The US managed to keep awareness of downwind fallout relatively secret for almost ten years. That ended with the Bravo Test at Bikini Atoll in 1954. Bravo tested the first deliverable H-bomb and produced such an immense amount of downwind radioactive fallout that its presence could not be managed or denied.² That doesn’t mean the US did not work feverishly to both manage and deny awareness of fallout. The Bravo cloud engulfed hundreds of fishing boats located outside of the protective exclusionary zone, but one boat in particular, the Lucky Dragon #5 (the Daigo Fukuryu Maru) would be so contaminated that it became impossible for the US to control perceptions of what had happened to the boat and crew. Thirteen days after the Bravo test the boat pulled into port in Yaizu, Japan with the entire crew suffering from radiation sickness, one of whom would die weeks later from his exposure. Until that day the US had succeeded in keeping a very tight lid on awareness of the radiation disaster, even though whole populations of downwind atolls in the Marshall Islands had all been exposed and evacuated (many military personnel were also exposed). The simple fact of the contaminated and sick crew of the Lucky Dragon brought awareness of what had happened in the Marshall Islands to the world’s attention.

Responding immediately, and strictly focused on containing information and awareness, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) feverishly denied the obvious. AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss first claimed that the crew was sick because of a “chemical” reaction of undersea coral in the explosion and not exposure to radioactivity. As the wonderful historian of worldwide antinuclear movements Lawrence Wittner reports:

The chair of the AEC, Lewis Strauss, publicly declared that the Marshall Islanders were “well and happy.”  The Japanese fishermen, he conceded, had experienced a few minor problems; but, in any case, he stated falsely, they “must have been well within the danger area.”  Privately, he was more caustic. The Lucky Dragon, he told the White House press secretary, was really a “Red spy outfit,” a component of a “Russian espionage system.”  At the request of Strauss, the CIA investigated this possibility and categorically denied it. Nonetheless, Strauss continued to maintain that the irradiation of the Lucky Dragon ‘was no accident,’ for the captain of the vessel must have been “in the employ of the Russians.”  He also told authors to ignore the contention of the “propagandists” that a crew member of the vessel had died of radiation exposure.³

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LIVE WEBCAST: Nuclear Free Planet Symposium on “The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident,” March 11-12, 2013

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Videos – Anti nuclear power rally Ottawa Canada

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Video of Fukushima London anti nuclear demonstration 9th March 2013

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Published on 10 Mar 2013

This video was filmed by Colin Clayton and is for educational and charitable purposes only.. please feel free to share..

Pictures of the London demonstration and march against Nuclear – 9 March 2013

Some photos of the event for you to share and enjoy…

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/10/pictures-of-the-london-demonstration-and-march-against-nuclear-9-march-2013/

more pictures here

http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org/2013/03/10/2nd-year-anniversary-of-fukushima-solidarity-demo-in-london

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Budapest, Hungary … mourns for the Japanese disaster victims – 10 March 2013

To follow Germany (will stop the activity of nuclear reactors in the country until 2022) and dismantle all nuclear reactors in the world, before the world will fall apart.

Greenpeace activists light candles to mourn victims of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami in downtown Bucharest March 10, 2013, a day before the second-year anniversary of the disaster that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel

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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=625330927493943&set=a.301291823231190.94357.295234367170269&type=1&theater

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