Fukushima - Truth behind the Worst Nuclear Acceident

This video is produced by ARTE, the French and German cooperative national broadcast station, but collective information that should be closest to the true pieces of the whole picture which many of us in Twitter and Facebook try to gather and share over the past year.


仏独共同の国営放送局ARTE 「フクシマ-最悪事故の陰に潜む真実」

フクシマ－最悪事故の陰に潜む真実 投稿者 IAppealToYou

For those who have only seen English mainstream media about Fukushima, the content should include lots of surprises.  It would be even more surprising that the majority living in Japan do not know 99% of what's told here.

Unfortunately, this is available only in German and Japanese subtitles (transcripts) now,  but it should still be worth uploading for further spreading the truth which the world should be aware of.

I hope to add English translation later.  (This inconvenience is part of what the global nuclear industry is successfully achieving i.e., making things local.)

Some of the speakers (interviewees) do speak English, and I hope it'll help your understanding.

"The Fukushima Syndorome" - Battle with Nuke Interests in Oma, Iwaishima, etc.

The video title seems to be simply after "China Syndrome" the old movie in which the nuclear fuel could have melted through to China.  But the stories are more about how the nuclear interests harm human beings - not only Japan, never only in Fukushima.

Till I came across this (either by this video or someone's blog news), I had never known of the lady called Asako who all alone lived in the house her mother left kept resisting J-Power's attempt to build Oma Nuclear Power Plant despite persistent harassment.  Oma was a fishermen's village (Oma Tuna is known for the high quality), but people were "bought" by nuke-money one after another.

Soon after we saw this video, we learned that Tohoku Electric was threatening her by warning to close the path to the land, saying almost no one is using the place around her home and such a place should be made more useful for "public".   Obviously, they were only attempting to destroy her daily life to begin the planned construction.  (This plan is crazy since it is not far from the extremely dangerous Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Recycling Plant also in Aomori, and Tomari Nuclear Power Plant in Hokkaido - the last operating plant in Japan till May 5th, 2012).

People on Twitter and FB shared her address, calling her home "Asako House", started to send her cards, letters, parcels, etc. so that someone to deliver these things use the path everyday ceaselessly.  Probably with support from volunteers,  Asako has been replying to each sender.  The connection was built through SNS's.

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In the middle of the video appears Hitomi Kamanaka, a movie director now very well known to us, talks of her experiences of meeting children in Iraq suffering and dying from depleted uranium - the garbage that came out as our "electricity" fuel out of the nuclear power plant, even though the bombers were American armies.

Now quite a few of us know of this sad truth from the book "Naibu-hibaku no Kyoi" (Threat of Internal Radioactive Exposure) co-authored by Ms Kamanaka and Dr Shuntaro Hida (94yo doctor who saw thousands of atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima, sometimes chased by GHQ to get put in a prison).

These are only a few out of countless facts I learned only after the 311 Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe.  The signs must have been everywhere, but I didn't see or listen, knowing the solution for processing the accumulating used fuels has not been found yet.  Which means, I didn't even know the close relationship between the nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants.

This video also let me see the face of Director Kamanaka, and I happened to see her movie when it came to our city center (major movie theaters do not accept anti-nuke films), and learned a little more about the Iraqi situation and new energy sources prospering outside Japan (often our technology not reported inside Japan).

Ignorance is sin, and can kill the innocent.