coolly registering skin diseases detached retinas menstrual irregularities hair loss in nia to miss diarrhea and for missing among many other illnesses and death the data was not published either in japan or the united states. in 1946 the united states launched a series of nuclear weapon tests. one aim was to study the effects of radiation on troops military equipment and the environment the program continued into the 1960 s. . use an operation hard. and 958 and i went through 28 different comic weapons testings. operation hard tack interior at high altitude and underwater

detonations at sites in and around the marshall islands the 1st took place on april the 28th and the last on august the 18th 1958 they were $35.00 tests in a c 3 days. one of them was a caldwell brother shot. with a big boom and the other broke through and there was a ship certain up there and it just kind of broke up broke through and looked like it looked away flying through the air we were sideways to the blast now this aircraft carrier. and when they're here our ship current all around like a piece of $104.00 and it rolled $49.00 degrees out everybody thought we were going over going over. i had a worse doubt system go on but i think the worst down system was just put radiated water back on the ship from there and when i was down in the in the elevator pit

there they came around with a geiger counters and they said get your butt out of there it's really radiated it's hot down there so i got out of there and i had to go to the decontamination station take off all your clothes and showered check your fingernails geiger counters. it was called to teach they were all named after trees and when they went off with your back turned it was it was hot enough to scorch the back of my uniform you had to put your arms and hands over your eyes you can see the bones and your eyes arms and you can see the bones in the guy in front of you if you look in of there.

after the. radiated 3 times the monday and a whole bunch of really got sick and sick bay they just it all there's a little bit of flu going around here down don't worry about it and they give you what they call apc's all-purpose capsules that i think with aspirin they told us there was no risk where you were close and you didn't have enough radiation to cause any disease or anything like that or any harm. there was low level radiation. you just press of a. nerve it will go away. the u.s. military consistently downplayed the effects of the radiation on its personnel. much like the leadership of the soviet union which in 1986 sent in teams equipped with nothing more than call to feel to guess masks and lead vests to clear away de

brézé in the radioactive hell of to nobble. before long these men were known simply as the liquidates his. see. when we look at these images nowadays they only convey a vague impression of what happened it's like watching a movie chernobyl was an enormous problem because nobody had imagined that an accident at a reactor could take on the dimensions of a nuclear war. and it was like nuclear war the radiation and fallout was equivalent to dropping $500.00 atomic bombs it was immense. a united nations report said 50 people died as a direct result and estimated there would be 4000 cases of cancer that would mean chernobyl killed if you were people then died in road accidents across the band u.s.s.r. in a single day today more than 80 percent of all children in belarus are believed to

be sick in fact the true figure is closer to 90 percent for chair noble the rate of illness was more like the 15 or 20 percent adults also manifest a greater vulnerability to disease they get sick more easily and more often today's adults were the sick children of chernobyl now they are the sick adults of chernobyl. the us will be quite. the population of dello russo is shrinking the ratio of deaths to births has doubled before chernobyl there were 60 deaths per $100.00 births and valorous now it's $120.00 deaths per $100.00 births that's a fact the population is getting sicker and sicker yet there is no acknowledgement that that's caused by radiation yet there are extremely disturbing cases and late 2017 at a school in minsk 2 children suffered heart attacks within a few days of each other out of the blue and if you 210 year old girls died.

when the uniform is still for there's no information as to the causes at least not yet but as far as i know the government responded to these deaths by instituting mass screenings of children full to identify those at risk because this because he knew congenital defects play a major role. during the development of the heart in a fetus radiation can lead to valve disorders. that can cause arrhythmia and many other kinds of heart disease we need. to be among the chernobyl liquidators the most common cause of death has been heart attack so that suggests a direct link between radiation and disease. in the fukushima disaster of 2011 and the ensuing radioactive contamination of the ocean gave renewed impetus to the demands of the fishermen hummed at bikini asil

must have received his research. was logan booking the nuclear disaster because she might give us a jolt we mustn't ignore these things called what exactly happened at bikini atoll has still not been established if we just accept that there's a risk that that will be the case with books as well. or the theory will move. begin digging know what are the must stop i stopped thinking about what happened that bikini atoll phone. call then in 2014 i read in the newspaper about claims for damages against the japanese state because of what happened there. are now new for me to cover. so i started to study the matter and look for other people who had been affected so

we could talk about it. it's outrageous how the state has dealt with us or. the japanese state has not treated us like citizens it has withheld documentation from the public for 60 years. this is what the fisheries agency published in february 25th teen. and gave to the members of parliament to do it. all 95 pages have been redacted. for the. group and. it's all blacked out it's totally useless that was only agreed to simply grotesque . we have drawn

attention to the fact that the government has tried to suppress the content of official documents so that's a serious offense to be overjoyed if she were still. in 201545 japanese fisherman who had been subjected to radiation at bikini atoll 6 decades earlier filed suit against the japanese state for withholding relevant records they demanded financial compensation for their medical expenses they want the truth to be told. i am hoping for a positive outcome that i can soon share with my former colleagues. well we were abandoned by the state it failed to protect us mr tague.

kim in this field. we mustn't give up we must think of the people in fukushima and not leave them in the lurch time may be passing but we still need to attain clarity. today nearly 30 little suits are pending in fukushima the central issue is the rights of children who are still being exposed to radiation and all the risk that entails. children's bones are particularly susceptible to damage. the plaintiffs are demanding the children be relocated so they can grow up in a place free of radioactive contamination. they accuse the government and the local authorities in fukushima of exposing their

children to danger through negligence and willful misinformation. given here in this going to go on the number of cases of clive lloyd cancer in children has risen steadily but according to some experts that is not necessarily a result of exposure to radiation there's no those stairs us who are screening. so just greening is conducted every 2 years many children were diagnosed with the disease at the 1st screening 2 years later the number should have been lower but it wasn't there were 71 new cases you can't explain that away with statistics screening of the most intimate again. these blue lights and grey turned contain more than a 1000000 tons of contaminated water. the water used to cool the.

the act is in fukushima immediately becomes highly radioactive the tanks will all be full sometime next year. the government has said it was considering releasing the water into the sea. when you come up to looking at it you can you can go to court or me and i still do my have a feeling the politicians want everything that has to do with the disaster to be a race and they are carrying on as if nothing happened we must remain alert to the danger to our country otherwise we are all lost that it is all of us.

are we about to run dry. no law to hurt no not. water is very big business that it's getting at us gasoline. what do we have to do not to end up high and dry. do we have to rethink the water industry. made in china. d.w.

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above. this is the deputy news live from berlin japan commemorates today the 10th anniversary of one of the worst disasters in the country's history nearly 2000 were killed when a tsunami and earthquake struck in its north east on this day in 20 of leavitt leading to the meltdown of the fukushima nuclear power plant.