longer than expected but it's now nearing completion the crew discovered the 2 air leaks in the station in august but sealed them temporarily at that time. you're watching news live from berlin every morning as the top the hour next for much. more than half the world will be living with limited water resources we haven't had to think about our war i think that era is over it's a financial product like any other financial. thing always changing to a modest important commodity futures called be free for a quarter for necessity or commodity starts march 22nd on d w. refuses

to leave his farm in the focus ema 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 zola is doing may seem irrational but it's part of a long running battle. the battle waged by people harmed by radiation there are many examples weapon tests on bikini atoll the fukushima disaster the radium girls . were. were. g.g. jean. the accident occurred on march 11th i was working at the only 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 as well because the radioactive cloud was passing through the area the radioactivity was so intense that nobody was allowed to go outside colleagues out doing measurements had to come back inside. on march the 13th i saw a huge ship out in the bay it was the ronald reagan crew who believe it was here as a part of operation. 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 cool it's been 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 good and might be leaking. i think the part that we didn't know was like the severity of the coolant what we were really going into until we were in it we had access to the higher ducts so right off the bat i happened to go up and you could you could taste it in the air 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 in the knew what was going on so they had the nuclear 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 containing 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 the fukushima. an easterly wind carried radioactivity alice into the pacific in several waves the aircraft carrier was

trapped its 5000 crew members in did 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 in the us and we had 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 now what's going to happen to us don't worry about it nothing's going to hurt you you're funny that's what we were told keep doing your job your fight. hire people are going on to the deck. we are. going to turn to my good for him of course water for drinking and for showering on

board was taken from the sea and filtered with the part 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 people who do know well who was also counted on the thing about radioactive radiation is that it goes through the body of. light is also a lecturer magnetic radiation but it can't enter the body on radioactive radiation is 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. issue sorry with this 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 you assume 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 out to sea 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. all know by only preventative measure against damage by radioactive substances is to

ingest protagoras iodide. 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 its residents so that was a serious crime against the people there are. 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 ety 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. more the level of radiation. you have 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 at the prefecture got in touch with the mayor. not fishel in charge chided us because we had distributed potassium iodide to everyone and asked who had instructed us to do so a lot and we said it had been our decision he then told us to get the tablets back . because the prefecture had not authorized that distribution you the national 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 doesn't stop we stop it.

will go i die and so 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 don't tell 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 had no effect on them done anything for us they brought us out to the mass that x. and they just sat us all down at tables and when they hear we're going to do these papers just sign them says that we gave the idea in tablas to sign it 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 were sure that we have to do we have to sign it and they just sign away you know we know we didn't get it. oh and talk to most of the commanding officers took

potassium iodide tablets the ronald reagan is nuclear powered so of course it's a quick with a dozen that are soon to the top brass knew full well how high the level of radiation was you know it's all bullshit what they should have done was inform their soldiers and take appropriate safety measures his you know. what the crew weren't told think 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 is just me one time you tell me come back when someone falls off what happens if my kids are falls are you going to check me that or. 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 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 they've been. radiation why while on top of your people doing this to your people. 25 of those on board the ronald reagan during the operation have since died in 201-5400 former crew members who had fallen ill the company that operates. these 4 marines left for health reasons the authorities have not acknowledged any connection between their exposure to radiation on the u.s.s. ronald reagan and the illness.

on march the 1st $954.00 the u.s. 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. and japanese fishing boat that. was at work in the nuclear fallout. the boat's name means lucky dragon but for the 23 men onboard 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 1980 s. sociology professor. peter got to know mrs fucci she and his son had

been subjected to radiation when the u.s. detonated an atomic bomb of another sucky. was irradiated a 2nd time in 954 he was one of the fisherman near bikini. the 2 were buried next to each other in the cemetery. but said again that we would. see. him and i came here i mean and. truly without him in. most of. the stuff he took his own life out at sea he was 27 years old. however he wasn't a member of the crew on the die go for your motto. we had thought that was the only

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