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starts march 22nd on d w. refuses to leave his farm in the fukushima exclusion zone where radioactivity is 10 times higher than normal. he feeds his castle though there contaminated meat can never be eaten. what you see is our is doing may seem irrational but it's possible a long running battle. the battle waged by people harmed by radiation there are many examples weapon tests on bikini atoll the focus ema disaster the radium goes.

to jean jean. the accident occurred on march 11th i was working at the owner gower nuclear power plant 120 kilometers north of tokyo. i had to stay there until the 15th of march i couldn't leave on the 13th the alarm was sounded and on a cow. as well because the radioactive cloud was passing through the area the radioactivity was so intense that nobody was allowed to go outside the colleagues out doing measurements had to come back inside but this was of course on march the 13th i saw a huge ship out in the back it was the ronald reagan crew who believe it was here as part of operation. going on no plot sense and closer. is the japanese word for friends the operation was

a humanitarian mission on the part of u.s. forces to help people affected by the tsunami. on march the 13th 20112 days after the 1st explosion in a reactor at the fukushima nuclear plant the aircraft carrier u.s.s. ronald reagan was caught in the radioactive plume rising from the plant. we knew what we were responding to we knew where we were going there was a tsunami and the reactor there was something wrong with the reactors would be and might be leaking. i think the part that we didn't know was like the severity of. what we were really going into until we were in it or we had access to the higher doc so right off the bat i happened to go up and you could taste it in the year there the air tastes different almost like. like

a metal taste almost like blood in your mouth or it's not blood it may be more like a tinfoil or something like you're looking tinfoil the radiation we didn't know right away. they try to keep that from us but our alarms went off and we had to go to our d. come stations where we get screwed down and everything and no one knew what was going on so they had the nucular people from the ship with their geiger counters and you just have a long line waiting to the catwalk which side of the ships to get checked basically so you know tending the entire inside of the ship hearing those geiger counters you don't know you hear this sound and it's clicking and it's like why is this what's going on don't worry about it you know we were out there for for 3 or 4 days and then the captain came over the speakers and said that there was. a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear power plant. there ronald reagan had taken a position 200 kilometers north of the fukushima. an easterly wind carried

radioactivity alice into the pacific in several ways the aircraft carrier was trapped its $5000.00 crewmembers india 2 days of intense radiation. and we had to move the ship because we were you know in the path and apparently it shifted right into us and we got to from there we took precautions to not as much radiation but i do remember over a few days it was a game of cat and mouse of running from the radiation obviously there was questions like oh are we going to die no what's going to happen to us don't worry about it nothing's going to hurt you you're fighting that's what we were told keep doing your job your fight. hire people are going on to the deck. we are.

also still going to turn to good for him he will cause water for drinking and for showering on board was taken from a sea of filters. apart from the radioactivity the soldiers absorb from the atmosphere they also poison themselves via the water they drink. locals that was probably worse he woke. up on going to god he will do all i knew was also hard on the thing about radioactive radiation is that it goes through the body. in the light is also alecto magnetic radiation but it can't enter the body and radioactive radiation she gets so much more intense you don't know ok in there you know because of its enormous energy pierces the body. in the process some of it is absorbed by the body guard on the i.q.

issues are over there so that radioactive radiation damages molecules in the body and it's especially dangerous when it damages the d.n.a. of that which carries genetic information he just gave you soon that they told us that we're going to you know gear up and go upstairs and wash everything down by we're going to scrub all the jets around scrub every surface and. we were going to come down so we were done. directly after the 1st explosion people in the region felt relatively safe because the wind was carrying the radioactivity to see us on march 15th it changed direction and headed inland to tokyo exposing countless people to radiation. the disaster struck everywhere on the ground in the air at sea there was no escape. people were desperate to know if there was any way to protect themselves. who so soon who all

know by only preventative measure against damage by radioactive substances is to ingest potassium iodide though cause that go some way towards preventing fire oid cancer. it's the only thing there is the usual. sort of they also say although there was a supply of potassium iodide tablets in fukushima and they were not distributed to with residents so that was a serious crime against the people and when they do a lot of the. on march the 14th reacting them to 3 exploded the mayor of me her real and his deputy decided to give iodine capsules to all their residence. was the only town in the region to do this and it did so without permission from the district administration which consistently played down the

danger. the disaster had all the hallmarks of the nuclear industrial complexes failings the withholding of information the passive and submissiveness on the part of the authorities towards the plant operator coupled with ignorance and incompetence. in such cases taking potassium iodide tablets is the thing to do. we received absolutely no information about the situation and more the level of radiation. fukushima prefecture told us nothing. that i could not depend on the state or government institutions to protect those affected no information was coming from above. so i followed news from abroad so i could at least hear the forecasts about the release

and spread of radioactive plume in the atmosphere. and in desperation i started to prepare for the distribution of iodine tablets. on march the 15th reactors number 2 and 4 exploded in short succession. the workforce at the plant was evacuated the 17000 residents of me how really got there iodine and a short time later the prefect got in touch with the man. the children who need the will not leave fishel in charge chided us because we had distributed potassium iodide to everyone and asked who had instructed us to do so a lot of what we said it had been our decision he then told us to get the tablets back. because the prefecture had not authorized that distribution use unless you

know we told him that the pills had already been handed out and it would be impossible to get them back. we just ignored it he done this we should stop the. world i die and i was supposed to you're supposed to take them as it's happening or before it happens right so they brought us the forms the sign that says that they gave us i dined out but it never happened let alone when those forms came about it was way after the fact so even if you would have gave us those tablets at that time would have no effect on have done anything for us they brought us out to the mass that x. and they just sat us all down at tables i want to hear we're going to give you these papers just sign them says that we've got i dying tablas to sign and we'll talk about it later and i was sitting there i was like i'm not signing this you just have to do it i don't have to do anything but you have to sign it and i just

gave the paper and i walked away i'm not signing it but so many people which is that we have to do we have to sign it and they just sign away you know we know we didn't get it. the homes on the top of those at the commanding officers took potassium iodide tablets then the ronald reagan is nuclear powered so of course it's a quick with a dust senator so the top brass knew full well how high the level of radiation was . what they should have done was inform their soldiers and take appropriate safety measures his you know. what the crew one told thing was that they continue to drink filtered water and remain exposed to radiation i'm going to ask and i want to know don't lie to me i want to know if i'm going to be ok i want to know if my future is going to be ok my children are going to be ok i need to know these things and then you go to the v.a. to ask can i get a check just one check just me one time you tell me come back when something falls

off what happens if my kids are falls are you going to check me then or now you know what i mean like i i just want to know what's the truth. everybody here was affected by that whether they knew it or not and it has been affected by things like that because they've been testing with nuclear stuff here since the fifty's in the sixty's. and why while on top of your people why do you people. 25 of those on board the ronald reagan during the operation have since died in 2015400 former crew members who had fallen in the company that operates. these 4 marines left for health reasons the authorities have not acknowledged any connection between their exposure to radiation onboard the u.s.s. ronald reagan and their illness. on

march the 1st $954.00 the us detonated a hydrogen bomb on bikini. it was far more powerful than expected almost a 1000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed hiroshima. japanese fishing boat videographer who was at work in the nuclear fallout. the boat's name means lucky dragon but for the 23 men on board exposed to intense radiation with 0 protection this was the least lucky day of their lives. less than 9 years after the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki japanese civilians were again subjected to the deadly effects of atomic power.

in the early 980 s. sociology professor. got to know mrs fucci she and his son had been subjected to radiation when the us detonated an atomic bomb of another sucky. was a radio a 2nd time in 954 he was one of the fisherman near bikini atoll. the 2 are buried next to each other in this cemetery. but it's a sort of a game bridge to. see people sitting in that lucky my game in an ivy league and i'm telling this it could mean a new covenant with god in. most of. he took his own life out at sea he was 27 years old. however he wasn't

a member of the crew on the di go for. we had thought that was the only post exposed to radiation at bikini atoll. that's what they taught us at school but it wasn't true. we were shocked to discover that apart from the tiger for career model there were many other posts near the art hall at the time. to do some research he and his students looked for fisherman who had been at sea in the a bikini asshole in 954. handed out questionnaires end around the fishing port of call and got almost $300.00 replies. the result came as a shock but the fisherman told the teacher and his students directly contradicted the official version of events when the u.s. conducted its nuclear weapons test on bikini atoll the diago for could do was just

one of many japanese fishing boats subjected to radiation. is still the best known and is now on display in its own museum in tokyo. but it is only the tip of the iceberg in fact some 700 fishing boats experienced the same thing or near bikini asshole in addition to 23 men on board the di eager for. several 1000 other fishermen were also exposed to the radiation the japanese government has never publicly acknowledged or identified them or offered them any compensation. you know. we had no idea that a nuclear bomb was going to be tested there. we only heard about it after we got back to port in japan more. of that then they are only to make the army

war college we had enough drinking water on board but we used sea water to wash our we thought of the need to get up out of the muster the winds were very strong and the waves were huge how they so we were often soaked through many months ago albeit in a. bikini you are ordered to and their thoughts are with them that you need for a while we were at bikini atoll for 40 or 45 days to. see war movie what are. the who keep going they are oprah 40 very we got no information and no instructions from the government. no one said we should avoid the area because of nuclear testing. for a day we often went back there to fish later on. of course we also ate fish 3

times a day. including the entrails are still there and we later learned that the entrails get contaminated 1st. in fact any. of them started. in may 9542 months after the day go for cody a man who returned to port a research vessel set sail its departure was carefully staged with a cheering crowd and szell. the japanese government sentential caught so much who to take measurements at bikini atoll and met the spread of radiation. his samples were taken press stations and fished. sectored and scanned many many festive high levels of radioactivity especially tuna soon in travel long distances

contaminated specimens were found far from the atoll. radiation levels were also tested in fishing ports in japan. engineers and white gloves examined large numbers of fish with a geiger counters. this map reveals the geographical extent of the disaster the red dots mark way contaminated fish were caught the affected area was much larger than the dangerous zone demarcated by the united states it encompassed much of the philippines taiwan and japan. the authorities said contaminated fish could not be eaten entire catches with dumped into the sea the financial losses. markets suddenly had no fish to sell people were scared of the radiation and of shortages of a dietary staple it was an unprecedented crisis. the fishermen demanded

compensation from the government in the meantime the u.s. continue testing nuclear bombs at bikini atoll. japan saw mass demonstrations against nuclear weapons. radiation fallout came to be known as sheen all high the ashes of death. the n.t. nuclear movement was gaining support fast and the united states was getting worried . this was after all in the middle of the cold war. if your plan were to fall under soviet domination again for communism want. to prevent this possibility. strong well defended your power is vitally important and necessary. in early december 954

a new government was installed in japan the us played a part in that under some of the 10th convicted war criminals and politicians who had served the militaristic regime before 945 were rehabilitated. under some of the $27.00 the new foreign minister mahmoud who she gave a peeled to the united states for $2000000.00 the money was to pay off and silence the fisherman at the same time many former high ranking officers were released from prison on parole demilitarised after world war 2 japan was to have an army again. the u.s. launched a propaganda campaign in japan extolling the virtues of atomic energy both disney was commissioned to make a series of cartoon film starring the ask him something amazing. the atomic age was born only the superpower which america has released from within

the atom smart is not one but many giant. one is the warrior destroyer another is engineers seeking to provide quantities of energy to run the world machine. in 1955 the american traveling exhibition atoms for peace was shown in more than 20 cities in japan including hiroshima and nagasaki as the u.s. and the soviet union embarked on their decades long nuclear arms race more than a 1000000 people visited the exhibition marveling at the many peaceful uses of nuclear technology. they did tell no tales and so. the silence of the grave descended over the horrors of hiroshima and nagasaki the suffering of the survivors was forgotten the tragedy

of the fisherman harmed by radiation at bikini atoll was found in no history books . intense propaganda on behalf of our friend the asem drowned out attempts to commemorate the victims of atomic mine. radioactivity is a physical phenomenon that can both kill and cure. it was discovered by henri because they and further research by pierre and murphy. killie's with the 1st to use the term radioactivity in order to describe certain properties of the elementary which they had just discovered. actually. this excess of radium in the early 20th century had mainly to do with its use in medicine it was above all the curies and in particular pierre curie you

advanced the research no. henry becker wrote once forgot some radium in powder form in his waistcoat pocket for a few hours he then said to be a curie how odd there's a burn on my skin exactly where the packet of radium had been dog you yes what will appear to you he. voted for more simply so cure himself titus sashay with radium salts to his left forearm. if i kind of appeared that too and it left a scar would you just go and see it. in $901.00 becker ellen curie published an article in which they describe how radium rays cause skin burns. but don't they need deep silk to bore you. no you don't if you get more back the same time industries started to get interested in the fact that radium

glows in the dark well it was marie curie who had observed this shortly after the discovery of radium. you argue she wrote about the pretty bluish light of. not only extremely good radiance capacity to glow was soon harnessed to make luminous paint that enable one to see in the dark even unison committed to going the way. that you go to go see the story of the radium girls is one of the 1st known cases of cancer caused by ionising radiation and these young women and girls painted the faces of watches and alarm clocks with the radioactive luminous paint of a point you they were told to use their lips to create a narrative to their brushes so they could paint fine lines you see it's easier and

faster to. say upbeat. soft good food they did that and of course these particles of radium would stick to their lips which caused an otherwise very rare kind of cheema of the jawbone the tumors were enormous the girls had been poisoned by the radium you know and the consequence was mental larry a pleasure so what that means is that they're born which produces red and white blood cells and platelets stopped working and it killed them. it was a young guns in $92075.00 of the women sued their employer the united states radium corporation it was clear that the company knew about the danger because the engineers in charge of the girls had taken measures to protect themselves. and their case never made it to trial. there was an out of court settlement instead

. all as so often in the united states the matter was sorted out with a bit of money because the women were poor they and their families said good it's better than nothing we'll take the cash and keep quiet like to see you carry on the overconcern you westerdale. if you like you don't get to see the pierre curie died in 1906 in a traffic accident much later in 1905 when he was to be repaired in the pantheon he was exude when his coffin was opened a cloud of radon a scapegoat showing just how contaminated he had been like with me if he hadn't died in an accident it's clear he would eventually have died as a result of the radiation exposure just as marie curie did with the consequences of this you are the shrink you know it was you.

are. women men and children were photographed in film from all sides shortly after the allied occupation of japan in 1945 the united states undertook a large scale medical investigation into the survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki they wanted to see what effect the atomic bombs had had especially barratry was established to analyze the impact of radioactivity on the body note it was a lab and not a hospital it offered no treatment to the survivors they were only observed and studied the victims were downgraded to guinea pigs. these file cards bearing handwritten annotations represent irradiated. jewels and their

elements. it's a horrendous archive of cruelty and immorality coolly registering skin diseases detached retinas menstrual irregularities hair loss in media to miss diarrhea and vomiting 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 included 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 $958.00 they were 35 tests in a c 3 days. one of them was a caldwell brother shot. with a big boom and then it broke through and there was a ship certain out there and it just out of broke up broke through and look like a little toy flying through the year we were sideways to the blast now this aircraft carrier. and when they're here our ship current around like a piece of $104.00 and 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 and they in the elevator pit there they came around with 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 the teak shot they were all named after trees and when they went off with your back turned it was it was hard enough to scorch the back of my uniform you had to put your arms and hands over your eyes you could see the bones in your eyes arms and you could see the bones in the guy in front of you if you look into

their. after the. radiated my 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 the worry about it and they give you what they call apc's all purpose capsules that i think was aspirin they told us there was no risk there you were close and you didn't have enough radiation. the cause you need these days or anything like that or in the car there was low level radiation. you just person would never 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 couple feel to guess mosques and lead vests to clear away de brézé in the radioactive hell of to nobble. before long these men were known simply as the liquidated. see. when we look at these images now if 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 atomic bombs it was immense you can see 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 that 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 knowable 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 to days adults where the sick children of chernobyl now they are the sick adults of chernobyl. because. 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 these 2 children suffered heart attacks within a few days of each other out of the blue if you 210 year old girls died. when. 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 is because you need congenital defects play a major role. during the development of the heart in a fetus the 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 may be.

the focus of 2011 and the ensuing radioactive contamination of the ocean gave renewed impetus to the demands of the fisherman hummed at bikini asil must have received his research. the slogan booking the nuclear disaster at booker shima gave 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 book as well. or the theory will move through. we can indeed can now go to 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 flu.

so i started to study the matter and looked for other people who had been affected so we could talk about it. i know. 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 world.

it's all blacked out and it's totally useless. 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. the us 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. so 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 lawsuits are pending in focus sima the central issue is the rights of children who are still being exposed to radiation and all the risk that entails . to do inspections are particularly susceptible to damage. the plaintiffs are demanding that 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. on here in this whoa on the number of cases of cancer in children has risen steadily but according to some experts that is not necessarily a result of exposure to radiation. those stairs are she was cleaning pocketbook. 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 tonnes of contaminated water. the water used to cool the. actors 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. munich. 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 our last. days with.

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