Gundersen says: “At Fukushima Daichi, the world is already seeing deaths from cancer related to the disaster…There’ll be many more over time.” He adds that there’s been a “huge increase in thyroid cancer in the surrounding population.” There’s a campaign by Japanese government…and people believe it.” “They tell us it’s safe to live in Fukushima, and to eat Fukushima food to support Fukushima people. “If it’s safe, why they left?” asks Kikuchi. He says “Shanghai is the largest Japanese community outside Japan now…while these same people” had been “telling the people of Fukushima go home, 10 kilometers from Fukushima, go home it’s safe, while their families are overseas in Los Angeles, in Paris, in London and in Shanghai.” Yoichi Shimatsu, a former Japan Times journalist, appears in the film and speaks of “the cruelty, the cynicism of this government.” He speaks of how in the accident’s aftermath, “nearly every member of Parliament and leaders of the major political parties” along with corporate executives, “moved their relatives out of Japan” The documentary tells how Kan, following the accident, became “an advocate against nuclear power….ordered all nuclear power plants in Japan to shut down for safety” and for the nation “to move into renewable energy.”īut, subsequently, “a nuclear advocate,” Shinzo Abe, became Japan’s prime minister. Kan then appears in documentary and speaks of “manmade” links to the disaster. So, people in Fukushima during that time were severely exposed to radiation.”Īrnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer and now a principal of Fairewinds Energy Education in Burlington, Vermont, speaks of being told by Naoto Kan, the prime minister of Japan at the time of the accident, that “our existence as a sovereign nation was at stake because of the disaster at Fukushima Daichi.” The nuclear power plant had already melted and even exploded but they never admitted the meltdown until May. Yumi Kikuchi of Fukushima, since a leader of the Fukushima Kids Project, recalls: “On TV, they said that ‘it’s under control’ and they kept saying that for two months. The Japanese government failed to protect its people,” the documentary relates. “Japanese media was ordered to censor information. Meanwhile, from TEPCO, there was “only good news” with two Japanese government agencies also “involved in the cover-up”-the Nuclear Industry Safety Agency and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. He says there was no emergency plan and, as to the owner of Fukushima, Tokyo Electric Power Company, with the accident its CEO “for five nights and days…locked himself inside his office.” “Fukushima is the world’s largest ever industrial catastrophe,” says Professor John Keane of the University of Sydney in Australia. That led to three of the six plants exploding-and there’s video of this-“releasing an unpreceded amount of nuclear radiation into the air.” Their back-up diesel generators were kicked in but “did not run for long,” notes the documentary. It then goes to the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plants in Japan after they were struck by a tsunami. Kennedy: “Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by an accident, or miscalculation or by madness.” Directed and edited by Philippe Carillo, it is among the strongest ever made on the deadly dangers of nuclear technology. “The Fukushima Disaster, The Hidden Side of the Story,” is a just-released film documentary, a powerful, moving, information-full film that is superbly made.
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