There are few events in world history that make us ask ourselves: Where was I when that happened?
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’s coast in 2004. Another shocking tragedy that affected so many of us was the tsunami hitting the nuclear power station on Fukushima’s coast. The images from these events are forever seared into memory.
It’s 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 Chornobyl exactly 25 years before this, and with Fukushima, we once again all witnessed the horror of another nuclear accident. Like Chornobyl, 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.
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.
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. This is Greenpeace bearing witness, so we may never forget Fukushima’s horrors and for us to continue campaigning for a truly nuclear-free world.
Well, apart from a few hotspots, the news is that Fukushima will open up in July 2022. So that 100 000 years claimed by Greenpeace's "experts" sure went fast!
Thank you Greenpeace for travelling to Fukushima Prefecture to investigate the situation and take measurements with Geiger counters/radiation monitors. These counters/monitors only provide an aggregated measurement, and do not fully take into account radioactive hot particles. Ingestion of such hot particles into peoples' lungs can have terrible problems with lung tumors and similar. I understand that statistical analysis has identified a huge deterioration in health of the Japanese population since year 2011, with huge increases in thyroid abnormalities, heart problems in young children and diabetes.
Sadly, such small radioactive hot particles are very difficult to collect and remove from the environment. Only the healing passage of time will help as the radioactivity subsides ... a long wait ... perhaps a 100, 000 years.
The AP1000 reactors installed in Fukushima Dai'ichi were of a sub-standard design. When the earthquake happened in year 2011, cooling pipes to the reactor cores in Reactors 1, 2 and 3 were severed. Even if the backup generators had not been flooded, meltdowns would have likely occurred. This is a systematic problem of the AP1000 design, that also affects other locations in Japan than Fukushima Dai'ichi. The Fukushima Dai'ichi site will now be impossible to clean up properly and will leach radioactive contamination into the Pacific Ocean, century-after-century, until the marine biosphere of the Pacific Ocean is completely ruined. There is a massive media coverup going at the present time regarding the Fukushima Dai'cihi accident. Japan would be wise to close all its nuclear reactors immediately in view of the seismic risk, and intensively invest in renewable energy systems, in particular wind turbine technology; the USA should compensate Japan and pay for the cost of establishing the renewable energy systems. Renewables are cheaper and safer than nuclear, and do not result in any nuclear waste being generated. Moreover, renewable energy systems such as wind turbines are more likely to survive earthquakes than large nuclear reactors. The blame lies with the USA (Westinghouse) selling sub-standard technology to Japan.
Yes, let’s shut down the only reliable scalable low-carbon source we have and keep killing millions every year by burning the fossil fuels needed to keep wind (and solar) working.
Reader: please check in regularly at
https://www.electricitymap.org/map and after a while you’ll notice the star players: Ontario, France, Sweden and then the hydro power countries- Norway, Costa Rica.
Check back and you’ll see the pattern.
Io Sono un Medico Italiano in pensione, io suppongo che il materiale nucleare disperso dopo il disastro del 2011 possa aver influito sul DNA o RNA dei VIRUS modificandone la struttura , come quando la radioattività causa i tumori , creandone dei nuovi come il covid.
Vorrei che qualche grande esperto in biologia o fisica, valutasse questa mia ipotesi.
vorrei una risposta da qualcuno
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Well, apart from a few hotspots, the news is that Fukushima will open up in July 2022. So that 100 000 years claimed by Greenpeace's "experts" sure went fast!
Thank you Greenpeace for travelling to Fukushima Prefecture to investigate the situation and take measurements with Geiger counters/radiation monitors. These counters/monitors only provide an aggregated measurement, and do not fully take into account radioactive hot particles. Ingestion of such hot particles into peoples' lungs can have terrible problems with lung tumors and similar. I understand that statistical analysis has identified a huge deterioration in health of the Japanese population since year 2011, with huge increases in thyroid abnormalities, heart problems in young children and diabetes. Sadly, such small radioactive hot particles are very difficult to collect and remove from the environment. Only the healing passage of time will help as the radioactivity subsides ... a long wait ... perhaps a 100, 000 years.
The AP1000 reactors installed in Fukushima Dai'ichi were of a sub-standard design. When the earthquake happened in year 2011, cooling pipes to the reactor cores in Reactors 1, 2 and 3 were severed. Even if the backup generators had not been flooded, meltdowns would have likely occurred. This is a systematic problem of the AP1000 design, that also affects other locations in Japan than Fukushima Dai'ichi. The Fukushima Dai'ichi site will now be impossible to clean up properly and will leach radioactive contamination into the Pacific Ocean, century-after-century, until the marine biosphere of the Pacific Ocean is completely ruined. There is a massive media coverup going at the present time regarding the Fukushima Dai'cihi accident. Japan would be wise to close all its nuclear reactors immediately in view of the seismic risk, and intensively invest in renewable energy systems, in particular wind turbine technology; the USA should compensate Japan and pay for the cost of establishing the renewable energy systems. Renewables are cheaper and safer than nuclear, and do not result in any nuclear waste being generated. Moreover, renewable energy systems such as wind turbines are more likely to survive earthquakes than large nuclear reactors. The blame lies with the USA (Westinghouse) selling sub-standard technology to Japan.
Yes, let’s shut down the only reliable scalable low-carbon source we have and keep killing millions every year by burning the fossil fuels needed to keep wind (and solar) working. Reader: please check in regularly at https://www.electricitymap.org/map and after a while you’ll notice the star players: Ontario, France, Sweden and then the hydro power countries- Norway, Costa Rica. Check back and you’ll see the pattern.
Io Sono un Medico Italiano in pensione, io suppongo che il materiale nucleare disperso dopo il disastro del 2011 possa aver influito sul DNA o RNA dei VIRUS modificandone la struttura , come quando la radioattività causa i tumori , creandone dei nuovi come il covid. Vorrei che qualche grande esperto in biologia o fisica, valutasse questa mia ipotesi. vorrei una risposta da qualcuno