2021: "We don't know when it will end"

Fukushima Desaster - 10 Jahre danach: 11.03.2011 - 2021
Quelle: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/9/fallout-fukushima-10-years-after?taid=6046da2bd52b5600013a40b1
9. März 2021


‘We don’t know when it will end’:
10 years afterFukushima
Tens of thousands were evacuated after the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant inTens of thousands were evacuated after the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant inJapan, and many still worry about the risks of radiation.

By Michael Penn

The effects of the Fukushima nuclear accident will be felt for decades into the future, say localand international activists on the 10th anniversary of Japan’s triple disaster of March 2011, contradicting the Japanese government’s official narrative that the crisis has largely been overcome.

Memories of that March day 10 years ago remain fresh for those who experienced it.
A magnitude 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeastern coast – the strongest ever recorded – was followed first by an enormous tsunami and then by the meltdown of three nuclear reactors at theFukushima Daiichi plant that was built on the coast and destroyed by the power of the wave. Nearly 20,000 people in the country’s northeast lost their lives.

A decade later, most Japanese in the Tohoku region have been able to move on with their lives,but in the areas near Fukushima Daiichi, where radioactive particles contaminated the land,recovery has not been so swift. “Buildings could be repaired after the earthquake and tsunami,” said NGO worker Ayumi Iida. “Only the nuclear disaster hasn’t ended. We don’t know when it will end.”....

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