{"id":15784,"date":"2021-03-12T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T02:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=15784"},"modified":"2024-07-12T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T23:51:12","slug":"a-decade-since-the-fukushima-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/a-decade-since-the-fukushima-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"A decade since the Fukushima disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are few events in world history that make us ask ourselves: Where was I when that happened?<br><br>I still remember when the news broke about a plane crashing into the World Trade Centre in 2001 and the visuals of the giant waves hitting Indonesia and Thailand\u2019s coast in 2004. Another shocking tragedy that affected so many of us was the tsunami hitting the nuclear power station on Fukushima\u2019s coast. The images from these events are forever seared into memory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a decade since the disaster took place. However, the trauma is still fresh, especially for the survivors who physically experienced the catastrophe. We had seen Chernobyl exactly 25 years before this, and with Fukushima, we once again all witnessed the horror of another \u200bnuclear \u200baccident\u200b. \u200bLike Chernobyl, hundreds and thousands of families had to be evacuated overnight as their homes were no longer safe. Nuclear radiation was spreading every minute, contaminating everything on its way.<\/p>\n\n<p>Ten years is a long journey. Looking at the Greenpeace archives, beginning with the first team documentation from 2011 up until 2019, it reminds us that while a decade may seem like a long time, it is not enough to wash away the pains caused by the accident.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Here we present the visual documentations Greenpeace has done in Japan over the years, as we try to show the extent of radiation in various prefectures.&nbsp; This is Greenpeace bearing witness, so we may never forget Fukushima\u2019s horrors and for us to continue campaigning for a truly nuclear-free world.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image  caption-style-medium caption-alignment-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2017\/12\/b0f5dd34-gp02bh0-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant Damage. \u00a9 DigitalGlobe\" class=\"wp-image-11955\" title=\"Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant Damage. \u00a9 DigitalGlobe\"\/><figcaption>A satellite image shows damage at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant In Fukushima Prefecture. The damage was caused by the offshore earthquake that occurred on 11 March 2011. \u00a9 DigitalGlobe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image  caption-style-medium caption-alignment-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/613287ae-gp02c3k-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Measuring Radiation in Kawamata City. \u00a9 Christian \u00c5slund \/ Greenpeace\" class=\"wp-image-46721\" title=\"Measuring Radiation in Kawamata City. \u00a9 Christian \u00c5slund \/ Greenpeace\"\/><figcaption>A group of Greenpeace radiation experts monitor different locations around the evacuation area that surrounds the crisis-stricken nuclear plant, in order to assess the true extent of radiation risks to the local population at Kawamata City, 60 km from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. \u00a9 Christian \u00c5slund \/ Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image  caption-style-medium caption-alignment-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/5580162a-gp02c3l-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Measuring Radiation on Boot. \u00a9 Christian \u00c5slund \/ Greenpeace\" class=\"wp-image-46751\" title=\"Measuring Radiation on Boot. \u00a9 Christian \u00c5slund \/ Greenpeace\"\/><figcaption>Greenpeace radiation expert Jacob Namminga of the Netherlands checks his colleague\u2019s boots for traces of radioactivity during decontamination procedures at Kawamata City, 60 km from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. \u00a9 Christian \u00c5slund \/ Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image  caption-style-medium caption-alignment-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/397e3a79-gp02c2z-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Women at a Shelter in Yonezawa. \u00a9 Christian \u00c5slund \/ Greenpeace\" class=\"wp-image-46724\" title=\"Women at a Shelter in Yonezawa. \u00a9 Christian \u00c5slund \/ Greenpeace\"\/><figcaption>Two women sit around a heater at Yonezawa gymnasium which is provided shelter for 504 people who either lost their homes by the Tsunami or live near Fukushima Nuclear Power Station. \u00a9 Christian \u00c5slund \/ Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>Radiation levels found by the Greenpeace monitoring team are far above internationally recommended limits. People living here would receive the yearly maximum dose of radioactivity within a few days.<\/p>\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ol>\n\n<p><a>Previous<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/8e764e90-gp02c43.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/8e764e90-gp02c43.jpg 1199w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/8e764e90-gp02c43-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/8e764e90-gp02c43-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/8e764e90-gp02c43-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/8e764e90-gp02c43-510x340.jpg 510w\" alt=\"Measuring Radiation in Iitate. \u00a9 Christian \u00c5slund \/ Greenpeace\"><\/p>\n\n<p>A Greenpeace team member holds a Geiger counter displaying radiation levels of 8.39 micro Sievert per hour in Iitate village, 40km northwest of the crisis-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and 20km beyond the official evacuation zone.<a>Next<\/a><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image  caption-style-medium caption-alignment-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/b2761687-gp04hyb-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Fukushima Anniversary Protest in Tokyo. \u00a9 Noriko Hayashi \/ Greenpeace\" class=\"wp-image-46738\" title=\"Fukushima Anniversary Protest in Tokyo. \u00a9 Noriko Hayashi \/ Greenpeace\"\/><figcaption>Greenpeace activists join tens of thousands of people marching on the Japanese parliament in remembrance of the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima, and to demand the Japanese government to abandon its dangerous nuclear programme. Greenpeace is calling on the Japanese authorities and governments globally to fix faulty laws governing the nuclear industry and force all nuclear companies to be fully accountable for nuclear disasters. \u00a9 Noriko Hayashi \/ Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>As autumn approaches, leaves turn gold in a forest near Tsushima Village, in the district of Namie. Nestled in between mountains in a beautiful green valley, Tsushima lies close to the 20 km exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Despite being outside the zone it is heavily contaminated, as winds blew radioactive fallout from the triple meltdown in its direction for three days. Citizens were exposed to high levels of radiation. Although the authorities had information showing this would happen, no one was warned. Thousands of the village&#8217;s inhabitants have now been evacuated and are living in temporary homes in Nihonmatsu. Whether they will be able to return to their villages remains an open question.<\/p>\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ol>\n\n<p><a>Previous<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/ee6bb67d-gp03d7g.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/ee6bb67d-gp03d7g.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/ee6bb67d-gp03d7g-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/ee6bb67d-gp03d7g-1024x840.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/ee6bb67d-gp03d7g-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/ee6bb67d-gp03d7g-415x340.jpg 415w\" alt=\"Flowers in Garden in Iitoi. \u00a9 Robert Knoth \/ Greenpeace\"><\/p>\n\n<p>Red flowers planted by Ms Satsuki Ikeda bloom their last as autumn closes in. Ms Ikeda\u2019s family has farmed their land in Iitate for nine generations, but she and her sons had to move away due to the contamination.<a>Next<\/a><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image  caption-style-medium caption-alignment-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/facf8f2d-gp03sy8-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Measuring Radioactivity in Fukushima. \u00a9 Noriko Hayashi \/ Greenpeace\" class=\"wp-image-46733\" title=\"Measuring Radioactivity in Fukushima. \u00a9 Noriko Hayashi \/ Greenpeace\"\/><figcaption>A radiation measurement tool used by a Greenpeace team member to check contamination levels in a park near Watari, a suburb of Fukushima City. Greenpeace conducted radiation monitoring around the Fukushima area for years, and has found serious risks to public health, inadequate decontamination activities, and a complete failure by the authorities to protect the Japanese population. \u00a9 Noriko Hayashi \/ Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>&nbsp;Using long exposure photography and a custom made, Geiger counter-enabled LED light painting tool, this project makes the invisible visible, measuring and displaying radiation levels in real-time, in the environments it exists. Inspired by the Immaterial wifi light painting project, we have sought to make environmental contamination clear and understandable using a white\/orange\/red lighting scale. White represents levels under 0.23uSv per hour (1mSv per year) &#8211; the Japanese government\u2019s guideline for decontamination after Fukushima. Orange shows contamination levels elevated above this, up to 1.0uSv per hour (roughly 5mSv per year) &#8211; a range where protective measures to minimize radiation exposure (such as resettlement, decontamination, special health services, food controls, etc) should be considered. Red shows radioactivity is greater than 1.0uSv per year (upwards of 5mSv per year) \u2013 a level where protective measures to minimize radiation exposure are necessary.<\/p>\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ol>\n\n<p><a>Previous<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/f626ecf0-gp0stplex.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/f626ecf0-gp0stplex.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/f626ecf0-gp0stplex-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/f626ecf0-gp0stplex-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/f626ecf0-gp0stplex-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/f626ecf0-gp0stplex-510x340.jpg 510w\" alt=\"Light Painting: Nuclear Radiation Testing in Fukushima. \u00a9 Greg McNevin \/ Greenpeace\"><\/p>\n\n<p>Radiation levels between 0.2uSv\/h and 0.5uSv\/h, with yellow showing spots elevated above the government decontamination target of 0.23 uSv\/h.<a>Next<\/a><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image  caption-style-medium caption-alignment-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/02\/2311a41b-gp0stumg5_web_size.jpg\" alt=\"Bags with nuclear waste. \u00a9 Christian \u00c5slund \/ Greenpeace\" class=\"wp-image-46523\" title=\"Bags with nuclear waste. \u00a9 Christian \u00c5slund \/ Greenpeace\"\/><figcaption>Bags with nuclear waste in Obori, Namie-town inside the highly contaminated exclusion zone in Namie, Fukushima prefecture. Ten years later, this area remains closed for people never to return to. The Japanese government plans to open a small area of Obori as early as 2023, however the levels of radiation measured by Greenpeace in this highly contaminated area mean that it will be many more decades, even beyond the end of the century, before radiation levels will even approach government targets. \u00a9 Christian \u00c5slund \/ Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image  caption-style-medium caption-alignment-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2021\/03\/8e4bf7e1-gp03c6a-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Radioactive Hot Spot in Watari. \u00a9 Noriko Hayashi \/ Greenpeace\" class=\"wp-image-46734\" title=\"Radioactive Hot Spot in Watari. \u00a9 Noriko Hayashi \/ Greenpeace\"\/><figcaption>Sign indicating a radioactive hot spot. \u00a9 Noriko Hayashi \/ Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still remember when the news broke about a plane crashing into the World Trade Centre in 2001 and the visuals of the giant waves hitting Indonesia and Thailand\u2019s coast in 2004. 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