2011年8月20日土曜日

Captured in Fukushima

Since March, we've making a series of DVDs interviewing experts like researchers, doctors, who'd been actively opposing Nuclear power plants. It is to deliver the truth, which the government and TEPCO are hiding, to people. We did screening tour to Fukushima twice. I thought its more important right now to reach them and help them evacuate from Fukushima than making films about them.

People in Fukushima are like captured in Fukushima.

More than 40 thousands evacuated but most of 2 millions population are sitill in Fukushima, being abandoned, being deceived by government and trying to find a hope to live in highly contaminated places.

Life in Fukushima seems quite normal except the level of radiation. People are living, eating, drinking working as usual and growing rice and vegetables.

Fukushima is such a big agriculture place and because nobody is buying their products, big consumer is people in Fukushima themselves. People living in the most contaminated area are eating the most contaminated food including school lunch in many schools.

Because the government does nothing, parents themselves are doing radioactive decontamination of schools. It reduces the level of radiation like 2 micro Sv/h to 0.4, but its still high enough to radiate school children by 3.5 mSv/year, and it is impossible to decontaminate forests, mountains, rice fields anyway. And the storage for the radioactive by-products is not available in anywhere.

Because of the government and NHK's "safe campaign", social pressure is so big towards those who raise objections. Those who worry are treated as if they are peculiar persons and in many cases they are forced to keep silence.

It looks as if there is an invisible wall to divide outside and inside Fukushima.
They are captured inside and made invisible from outside.

I do not know what will happen, but I know the worst is yet to come.