radiation exposure has caused local residents to suffer severe social exclusion according to dr robert jacobs from the hiroshima peace institute. there are still people living in areas where there's high radiation and there's children going to school in areas where there's high radiation and so there's been a reluctance to move as quickly as possible and a lot of people from the fukushima area who even people who were born there but who live in tokyo are experiencing discrimination in japan by people who consider them toss of the contaminated even the radiation is not transferable to other people but there are a lot of problems ahead if i can give you one quick example in august there's a very important holiday in japan called oborne in which everyone returns to their hometown because the spirits of ancestors come to their burial places where their nationals are interned and the family welcomes them these people exclusion zone will not be able to observe this will they just holiday and welcome there the spirits of their ancestors who return no bones when people find that there are unable to c

situation in japan and we're joined by dr robert chaika pastor of nuclear history at the here seem at peace institute thanks for being with us this hour dr jacobs we just heard from saw in their government reports of course released earlier in the week i think the damage and leakage were worse than previously thought but this really mean and just how dangerous is this for the country and its people. it's extremely dangerous the tepco and the government of japan it's known from the first few days of this incident that there were three full meltdowns that had occurred as information was kept from the public. the situation currently is as you say that it was going to melt through the initial containment into the secondary containment and. at this point what we hope is that the melted core will not melt through that second containment if it goes through that second containment and exits the plant and enters into the ground this is unprecedented it's never happened ever before and nobody really knows exactly what that would lead to but i would also add that the amount in chernobyl there were a lot of things there was a lot of anxiety about whether t