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00:08It was very quickly apparent that this was a powerful earthquake, and was growing in power.
00:23It was terrifying in the moment, seeing all the devastating power of Tsunami.
00:40The news on the radio was talking about the Fukushima reactor.
00:44They said there's been an explosion at the nuclear plant, turn the car around and drive south.
00:56It was sort of a Chernobyl moment.
00:59I felt it was too late to run away from now.
01:12If this were to be a really significant release of radioactivity, would you have to evacuate Tokyo?
01:38On the 11th of March 2011, the largest Tsunami to hit Japan for more than a thousand years devastated the
01:47ecosystem.
01:48On the east coast, leaving thousands dead or missing.
01:54But few knew that another emergency was brewing at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
02:06Professor Kuzuto Suzuki investigated the crisis.
02:11Fukushima Daiichi had six reactors, and four of them were located in coastal lines.
02:18After the earthquake, three operating reactors immediately shut down.
02:24So once the reactor was shut down, it was considered safe.
02:33But the tsunami breached the reactor buildings, leaving the power plant without power.
02:40Professor Tom Scott helped with the disaster clear-up.
02:45Part of the damage that was caused by the tsunami, pumping systems were disabled.
02:52The problem with light water reactors is that even though you may shut down and stop causing fission,
02:59the fuel will generate lots of residual heat.
03:02And it's essential that once you've turned off a reactor, that you continue to take away this residual heat.
03:10And if you fail to do so, the reactor core will get hotter and hotter and hotter.
03:20So the plant needed electricity, and for an extended period, it couldn't get it.
03:27It couldn't keep those key parts cool.
03:29And that's when the crisis was turning into a potential disaster.
03:38The power company and its workers scrambled to avert a nuclear meltdown.
03:45It was very difficult to bring in off-site emergency response capability
03:51because of the debris and destruction caused by the tsunami,
03:55because roads were physically broken.
03:57So very much it was a situation that the power plant and the people on the power plant were volunteering
04:02to go into the plants to turn off key valves,
04:05or to try and open key valves in some instances, to try and make sure that they could keep cooling
04:10those reactor cores.
04:12Those were very, very brave people.
04:13It was a moment when there were difficulties because of the lack of light and everything.
04:20So there was no way that the Fukushima Daiichi will restart the cooling system,
04:28and therefore the fuels are starting to melt down.
04:38We had a situation where the fuel elements started to get very, very hot, started to generate steam,
04:44and we got a sort of runaway steam corrosion.
04:47What that meant is that lots of hydrogen was quickly produced,
04:52and it started to fill the insides of the building.
04:55The release of hydrogen from the reactors made a very combustious mixture in the reactor halls,
05:03the wider building around them.
05:04The temperature started to rise, and the clock began to tick.
05:11The government declared a nuclear emergency.
05:16But in the chaos after the tsunami, many were unaware of the crisis at the plant,
05:22including some who fled inland for Tsushima district with Mizue Kano to her centuries-old farmhouse.
05:30There were a lot of people who fled to Tsushima.
05:35There were many friends, friends, and friends.
05:40There were 25 people who were connected to the apartment.
05:45There were 25 people who were connected.
05:46There were also people who were involved in there.
05:48There were also people who were able to help.
05:49There were also people who were connected to the apartment.
05:57Meanwhile, across Japan, thousands were still waiting for news of loved ones caught up in the tsunami.
06:05Like Kazuma Obara, now a photojournalist.
06:10In 2011, I was in Kyoto, and I worked as a salesperson and financial company.
06:18My best friend's hometown is Minami-sanori town.
06:23It's really coursed in Miyagi Prefecture.
06:27It's like the second hometown for me.
06:32I asked him, how was your parents?
06:35And then he just answered.
06:39The phone was dead, so he couldn't know if they are okay or not.
06:46I totally felt I'm powerless, but I wanted to do something.
06:52You know, I was in Osaka, so I could buy almost everything.
06:57Like fuel, food, water.
07:00So I bought the supplies for the disaster area, and I picked up my best friends in Tokyo.
07:08And slowly and slowly, I moved to the north.
07:16Financial Times Bureau Chief Muir Dickey was already reporting from the area.
07:22Looking around, it's almost impossible to believe that this was a bustling seaside town
07:27until that wall of water smashed through, turning the wooden houses into matchsticks.
07:33I don't think anything prepared me for the kind of scenes that I saw when we finally made it to
07:44the actual coast.
07:47And this absolute devastation of towns and cities along it.
08:19A little spark will create the hydrogen explosion.
08:29The hydrogen explosion basically blew out the building.
08:35And this creates the visual impact that it was sort of a Chernobyl moment.
08:44I got a message from my editors in Hong Kong saying there's been an explosion at the plant.
08:51And that was the first time I realized that this was more than just worry about a nuclear plant.
08:59That it was something very, very serious.
09:04Plant worker Yukio Shirahige had fled home after the tsunami and saw the explosion on TV.
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09:49Because within that explosion, the heat that's released,
09:53you release radioactive material up into the atmosphere.
09:58But at the same time, there was very little information about the spread of radioactivity.
10:03And part of the reason for that is this site had 24 static monitors for measuring radiation.
10:09But the tsunami took out 23 of those 24.
10:14At her farmhouse, Mizue Kano didn't yet know the source of the explosion.
10:19But at that time, the atmosphere had a taste of steel.
10:27It was like a cheap spoon in the mouth.
10:34It was like a cheap spoon.
10:43It was like he did it.
10:47So I felt like it was very different as the side.
10:50And the skin came to me.
10:55My skin fell together.
10:56Mizue began to fear the worst.
10:59I was listening to the fire sound, so I thought it would be better.
11:06So I said, there are so many people here.
11:11I'd like to buy vegetables, and I'd like to buy vegetables.
11:16I was a dog, so I'd like to close my house to the outside.
11:32I felt that I was not aware of how long the ship was going to be.
11:37I felt that I was not able to escape from the moment.
11:45I felt that I needed to escape.
11:45I felt that I was able to escape from now.
11:47I felt that I was not able to escape from now.
11:51the picture that the first reactor building was blown away that was the time
11:58that people recognized the seriousness of the problem my view was that oh this is
12:07not the worst case yet news of the explosion at Fukushima Daiichi spread
12:18around the world but there was little information about the radiation risks
12:23for those on the ground everybody knew there was a very serious crisis at the plant
12:31and the population was watching anxiously the updates from the government but I think
12:42it was clear at times that the government itself was struggling to understand the
12:46situation about what was happening and the plant assurances that such a thing could
12:53never happen in the first place had been shown not to be warranted so there was a
12:59great deal of confusion a lot a great deal of doubt and a great deal of concern
13:09the government ordered an evacuation for 20 kilometers around the plant but in Tsushima
13:16district Mizuei Kano was 10 kilometers beyond the zone when she had unexpected visitors
13:22in a
13:23so
13:23so
13:26so
13:26he was going to see the car on the door and in the front of the house
13:29house a Asian car with a car on the inside of the front of the cell
13:39I wore a mask and wore a mask.
13:43I wore a mask.
13:43I wore a mask.
13:44I wore a mask.
13:46I wore a mask.
13:47I wore a mask.
13:49I wore a mask.
13:51I wore a mask.
13:59Mizue had no idea who the people were.
14:02But she was scared, as were her neighbors.
14:05They were looking for a mask.
14:09I was looking for a mask and looking for a mask.
14:14I was looking for the mask.
14:15I was just a mask.
14:18I couldn't remove it anymore.
14:22I figured out where I was.
14:29While thousands packed up and left,
14:32Some feared the radiation could be blown south to Tokyo,
14:36triggering deadly stampedes as 30 million people tried to flee.
14:42If this were to be a really, really significant release of radioactivity,
14:46were those people genuinely in lots of danger?
14:49Would you have to evacuate Tokyo?
14:53People were scared. The Prime Minister was scared.
14:58We discovered later that the Prime Minister himself had started to think about the need to evacuate Tokyo,
15:08which in itself would have caused huge loss of life.
15:14The Prime Minister was thinking in those terms that this could turn into an extraordinary disaster.
15:26Fear of radiation continued to spread.
15:30And 100 kilometres north of the plant, the news reached communities hardest hit by the tsunami.
15:39People in the area, including in the disaster zone,
15:43were desperate to know what was happening at the plant and also desperate to know what it meant.
15:52Richard Halberstadt was sheltering at Ishinomaki University.
15:58I ended up spending two nights just sleeping at the university with many of the other staff.
16:06Our main way of getting news from outside was using battery-driven radios.
16:12And so, of course, the news on the radio was talking about the Fukushima reactor.
16:20We knew when it was broadcast that there had been an explosion and so on, which was concerning for us.
16:27But ironically, not as concerning as maybe for other people,
16:32because we were so busy trying to look after ourselves from the earthquake and tsunami damage.
16:42Just north of Ishinomaki in Minamisan Riku, Kazuma Obara arrived to help search for his friend's relatives and reveal the
16:51devastation to the world.
16:54Since I was 16 years old, I wanted to be a photographer. I wanted to shoot. I wanted to document.
17:07There were 30 housing before the tsunami.
17:12When we arrived at the town, only two housing were still there.
17:17And my friend's house wasn't there.
17:25From the basement, everything was moved to somewhere.
17:30somewhere. So, when my best friends saw that situation, he wasn't stopped crying.
17:42Hey.
17:44Hi.
17:49My grandfather was missing.
17:53His grandfather was missing.
17:54And what he could do for him was just visiting the place where someone saw the grandfather at the last
18:08moment.
18:08before tsunami came, and he was just crying and told something to his
18:20grandfather. I couldn't do anything for him, and I was just shooting. I was just
18:29shooting. The kind of level of trauma, the wave of trauma and distress that came in
18:46with the tsunami is hard to describe. But as a journalist, what you have to do is try
18:50to describe it. What you have to do is try to understand what happened and
18:54communicate it to the outside world. Soldiers, doctors, firemen, other relief
19:00groups are all working hard to try and bring some kind of semblance of normality
19:04back to people's lives. But just walking around this town is to sense the scale of
19:09the challenge.
19:16A friend came to find me, partly to check that I was alive, and also he gave me
19:25information which included the fact that one of our best friends had lost his life.
19:32Everything was so surreal and so completely removed from everyday life that I really
19:40didn't have a chance to kind of think about how I felt about anything. One of our
19:45other really good friends, who is a hotel owner, had converted the hotel into an
19:51evacuation shelter. And so my friend suggested that we go and meet him. So
19:57that's what I did. We had no electricity, no water, no gas. And it was it was cold
20:09because March is very, very cold in this area. So in all the clothes that we had 24
20:14hours a day, huddling around little kerosene stoves and like shivering in in bedclothes
20:23at night.
20:29Meanwhile, Ryoko Endo was stranded at Ishinomaki City Hall, believing her three children were
20:36sheltering across town at their school gymnasium.
20:41We had been doing mental health to be able to keep on the
20:48through the difficult times of life. And so in the middle of the day, and that
20:56it was the most difficult time for a year. And that for many people were
20:58still alive for each other and that they were going to be sick to the
21:01way to him.
21:03So all about the medical๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝes for the hospital because of the
21:04our hospital in the hospital and being on our hospital, our hospital
21:04is doing that no matter of possibility of getting to the hospital, as far as
21:09I think I was able to keep it in mind.
21:13If children are still in the gym,
21:18I would like to go to school.
21:20I didn't think so much about it.
21:33100km south at Fukushima Daiichi,
21:36after the explosion at Unit 1,
21:38workers were also trying to cool nuclear fuel
21:42in Units 2, 3 and 4.
21:47You have a series of reactors that are in trouble,
21:50but one of them blows up.
21:52Then your teams that are trying to work on the other reactor buildings
21:57are withdrawn because of the danger,
22:00and that made it very, very challenging
22:02to try and prevent similar hydrogen explosions in those other reactors.
22:09The key thing was to deliver cooling water
22:13to the parts of the plant that were getting too hot,
22:16and they tried various ways of doing that.
22:21The initial priority was just restoring electricity supply.
22:26They found, in fact, at one point,
22:29that plug and socket didn't fit for an emergency supply.
22:34Around 11am on the 14th of March,
22:37a second explosion blew the roof off reactor building 3.
22:43On the 15th, there were two further explosions.
22:47Effectively, it was the same mechanism each time.
22:51Build-up of hydrogen followed by an explosion,
22:53starting with Unit 1 and then with other units as well.
22:58The fourth reactor, which was not in operation,
23:02was also blown away because the hydrogen was leaked
23:07into the building of the fourth reactor
23:10because the third and fourth are connected.
23:17Three reactor buildings were now open to the elements,
23:20risking further radiation leaks into the atmosphere
23:24from the reactors or the spent fuel.
23:28Not only is there a requirement to keep the reactor core cooled,
23:33but there's also a requirement to keep the spent fuel ponds
23:36filled up with water and to keep the fuel cool in that as well.
23:42The spent fuel pools were on the high floors of the reactor.
23:48So when the steam explosion happened,
23:53then the spent fuel pool was also exposed to the air.
23:58If there was no cooling system,
24:01there'll be a meltdown of the spent fuel.
24:04It could cause fires among the uranium spent fuel
24:08with the potential for very large releases of radiation.
24:19The explosions that tore open Fukushima Daiichi's reactor buildings
24:24unexpectedly helped with the effort to cool overheating fuel,
24:28but at a huge cost.
24:33So what happened in the end was they were able to bring in military fire fighting vehicles
24:40that could deliver large amounts of water into the cooling pond,
24:44and they were also able to flood the lower reactor areas with water.
24:51That averted the possibility for a much bigger disaster,
24:56but it also created this problem of lots and lots of radioactive contaminated water.
25:06The reactors had lost their integrity,
25:08so you can imagine each reactor core being like a broken teacup.
25:13You can keep pouring water into the top of the teacup,
25:16but the crack at the bottom will keep allowing water to flow out.
25:20So what that meant is,
25:22is as they continued to put water through the reactor cores,
25:25they produced more and more radioactively contaminated water
25:28that was physically draining to ground or they were having to pump out.
25:34The threat of explosions had passed,
25:37but workers at the plant still risked radiation exposure.
25:42Meanwhile, evacuees like Mizue Kano were facing a trauma of their own.
25:46the stigma of contamination.
26:11It's a really painful moment, there are jobs, there are houses, there are birthplaces.
26:18These are all gone. So there are a lot of scars in the society by this incident.
26:27Many living beyond the 20km exclusion zone sheltered in their homes.
26:33One thing that I found quite harrowing actually was for the people that had been displaced.
26:39They'd been displaced, they'd been moved away.
26:41But the people that lived just outside the exclusion zone, demonstrably sometimes they received more radioactive fallout than people inside
26:49the fallout zone, and yet they hadn't been relocated.
26:54Despite the risks, plant workers who had been evacuated days earlier were recalled to try and prevent further spread of
27:02radiation.
27:02Including Yukio Shirahige, who supported the mission to cover Reactor Building 1.
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28:01Kazuma O'bara arrived in the exclusion
28:04zone.
28:09When I was a high school student, I already started having the interest to the nuclear industry.
28:17So, I wanted to do something with Fukushima.
28:23No media could go into the nuclear power plant and ask the workers what was the condition.
28:31A contact helped Kazuma gain entry to the plant.
28:35So, I was afraid, but I decided to visit only one day.
28:41So, I thought, maybe it's okay.
28:44Most of the workers lived surrounding the area of nuclear power plant before the accident.
28:51But they had to evacuate from the zone.
28:54So, many of the workers I met lived in temporary housing.
28:59And they went to a nuclear power plant from temporary housing.
29:05That is so hard.
29:10I think there was a bed.
29:15So, it wasn't for a while.
29:17It's because we were bridged 48 hours.
29:19We were all in the air.
29:22And we had to go to 3 hours and 1 hours.
29:24We were outside.
29:28There's a bed that doesn't have a bed that doesn't have.
29:32The bed that I have on the road.
29:35The bed that I have a bed that I have a bed that I have.
29:38So, it was a pain in my mind.
29:48It was a pain in my mind.
29:56It was so hard to see the worker is facing hard working condition.
30:05People thought they are kind of hero to stop spreading the nuclear elements from the reactor.
30:15But at the same time, we didn't care anyone in the zone, especially in the front line.
30:25That was so strange, I felt.
30:29Because if they are hero, we want and we needed to protect them.
30:47One hundred kilometers north of the nuclear crisis, aid was slowly arriving for survivors in areas cut off by the
30:55tsunami.
30:57We were getting deliveries of food from the self-defense forces and from the city and so on.
31:04So it's basically nothing but kind of like the sort of sweet bread snack rolls that you can buy in
31:11convenience stores.
31:12And also the onigiri rice balls, which they had gathered from all over the country.
31:20They were past their sell-by date because it took a long time for them to make their way to
31:24us.
31:25But we were just grateful to have anything.
31:27And as long as it wasn't really rotten, then we could eat it to survive.
31:31And it wasn't much. We all lost a lot of weight then, but we were very grateful to just have
31:36that.
31:41For two days, flooding had prevented Ryoko Endo from trying to locate her children.
31:47But when the waters subsided, she went to find them.
31:53It was so much for been interesting for me and to get to the national do-to-be.
32:04So that they came to get a village and said,
32:07But, the road has even been used to get a village to be made in a moment of world-to
32:08-be.
32:08So I decided to go into a village under the place.
32:12So that they was in the beginning and started the village.
32:15So I realized that I was there a struggle and never going into it.
32:17Because the water was in the place without a huge pool.
32:18It took the way to go to the streets and I wanted to stay.
32:20I was going to cross the street and I was going to go to school.
32:25I was going to go to school and I was going to go to school and I was going to
32:27go to school and I didn't know what to do.
32:31and I couldn't figure it out.
32:37My friend had a close friend of mine,
32:42and I told him,
32:44and told him,
32:45I don't know what to say.
32:53He is a good friend.
32:57I was told that I would not find them yet.
33:01When I was sent to the student, I was sent to the school.
33:08I was sent to the school in a way that I was going to go to the school.
33:15And then, I was told that my wife had a job.
33:17She said, I didn't want to say that she was a child.
33:21So I realized that I had a dream that I was able to learn from my children.
33:39It was probably a bad dream.
33:43I could not have been able to live forever.
33:49I couldn't believe it was because I couldn't believe it.
33:53When I was given a lot of money and a lot of things, I couldn't believe it was after that.
34:01It was because the world would become a colorless color.
34:20The devastation unleashed on the 11th of March 2011 shocked the world.
34:28But tsunamis are a well-known risk in Japan.
34:32So why did this one trigger a nuclear disaster?
34:37One of the phrases that was used a great deal in the days after the tsunami hit is
34:47which means beyond expectations.
34:52And in many, many ways, the tsunami was beyond expectations.
34:58That's the core explanation to some people or the excuse to other people
35:07for why the tsunami caused this crisis.
35:17One by one, Japan's nuclear plants were shut down until the cause could be established.
35:23Kuzuto Suzuki consulted on an independent investigation.
35:30I was invited by the chief editor of one of the largest daily papers in Japan.
35:38And we set up the first investigation of the accident itself,
35:43but also we investigated the responses of the prime minister's office and the government.
35:53Three other investigations were launched.
35:57All agreed that a critical point of failure was the plant's level of protection against a large tsunami.
36:06The plant was originally designed to handle about a 5-metre tsunami.
36:11But the actual tsunami goes up to the 15-metre high.
36:17And once the waves breached the plant, there was another weakness.
36:23When the tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi, the water flowed into the basement of the Fukushima Daiichi 3-8 reactors.
36:34And those reactors had emergency generators in the basement.
36:40The tsunami swamped the diesel generators, which were the main source of backup electrical power.
36:48Because water couldn't be cycled through the reactor to take away the heat,
36:52we had a situation where the reactor core, even though they were shut down,
36:57they started to get hotter and hotter.
36:59What that led to is a buildup of hydrogen.
37:01And what that means is you only need to have a spark for that hydrogen to explode.
37:07And that's exactly what happened.
37:11The first reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi was made by an American company.
37:16The higher risks for the American power plants were the tornado.
37:24So, you know, they naturally designed the generators to place in the basement,
37:30where it is much more safer.
37:34But in Japan, you know, we don't have much tornado, but we have tsunami.
37:39So, putting the generators on the ground was not really the good idea.
37:50The scale of the disaster that followed shattered public confidence in nuclear power.
37:56There was shock in Japan, I think, that the system wasn't able to deal more effectively,
38:07faster with the crisis at the plant.
38:09I think people had been reassured by the electricity utilities
38:15that their plants wouldn't get into this kind of problem
38:20as a result of an earthquake or a tsunami.
38:23When it did, I think people assumed that there would be an effective emergency plan
38:32and an effective backup to that emergency plan.
38:34And they were stunned to find that there wasn't really.
38:41The Fukushima cleanup is expected to last for decades,
38:46including dealing with vast quantities of contaminated water.
38:51So, there are lots of tanks everywhere in the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
38:58They are using every inches, every corner of the open spaces to store those tanks.
39:08But it comes to the, you know, to the limit.
39:12They quite quickly established a sort of filtration plant,
39:17which would take out the majority of all of the radioactive material that dissolved into the water.
39:23In terms of its radiological danger, it really doesn't present much hazard.
39:28So, the decision in the end was to start discharging into the sea through a pipeline that would go out
39:36off the coast.
39:37And to let the Pacific Ocean and dilution solve the problem.
39:44Meantime, a vast area around the plant has been scraped clean of surface radiation.
39:50But residents remain in fear of contamination.
39:54The thing that struck me most was that there was this lack of understanding of where the radioactivity had gone.
40:01So, one of the things that I did with my team at the University of Bristol
40:04is we got funding to develop a flying robot that could map radiation.
40:09And within weeks, we were flying in different parts of the exclusion zone
40:14in partnership with the Japan Atomic Energy Authority to understand the distribution of the fallout material.
40:23The forest litter and the bark and the moss on the bark are very good for holding the radioactive fallout
40:29particles.
40:29And so, by flying over the forest and we go several hundred meters into the forest or over the forest,
40:35we can measure the radioactivity without actually having to go in there.
40:40We would stay in a hotel near to but not inside the exclusion zone.
40:46And on several occasions at the end of our stay, we would go to try and pay our hotel bill.
40:51And the manager of the hotel would say, your bill, everything's been paid already.
40:56And every time it was, you know, a local businessman wanted to express his gratitude for you coming to help
41:04our country.
41:05And, you know, this is a small measure of gratitude that we pay all of your costs.
41:14More than a decade later, the so-called difficult-to-return zone is shrinking.
41:20Mizue Kano is considering moving back.
41:23But the decision stirs up traumatic memories.
41:26Mizue Kano is considering having a lot of people to find their families.
41:29We are leaving the houses in the wall.
41:30We were also leaving the house in the city of the village.
41:40We were, from the outside of our stay, left to our house.
41:49We were left and left.
41:51We were left and left.
42:04It was so strange feeling when I come back to home from Fukushima region, especially when I come back from
42:15the zone to my house, you know, in the zone, everything is there.
42:22You know, housing, supermarket, and a convenience store, but no one there.
42:31The Japanese government, I think, has recorded something like 2,300 lives attributed to Fukushima.
42:36None of them to radiation, but a lot of them to induced mental ill health and suicide.
42:44And part of that is caused by, you know, this notion of am I contaminated, am I not?
42:49Am I going to die from cancer because of radiation exposure?
42:54All of the worries that are manifest because of the lack of understanding about radiological risk genuinely had a human
43:01toll.
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43:32The tsunami that triggered the nuclear disaster claimed almost 20,000 lives, with more than 2,500 still missing.
43:51A few years later, former lecturer Richard Halberstadt became a guide at a ruined school, which serves as a memorial
44:00for the disaster.
44:01I felt like I wanted a change even before the disaster, but I didn't really have the courage to leave
44:08the job.
44:10And ironically, that terrible disaster gave me the courage to actually leave without knowing what I was going to do
44:18next,
44:19because it made me feel if I can live through this disaster, I can just leave work and something will
44:25happen.
44:27While working there, Richard met Ryoko Endo, who lost her three children to the tsunami.
44:34I also felt like the pandemic was a tragedy that was a news story and a TV story.
44:43I felt like I was here, but I couldn't be one of the stories that I was here.
44:48I felt like I was here, and I felt happy that my life could be.
44:51If you think about yourself as a matter of thinking about yourself, I'll be happy.
45:01Everything's changed in so many ways, because on a more sort of philosophical level,
45:08when you look at all the people who lost their lives, then I'm much more appreciative of just life.
45:16It made me think about my mortality, speaking to so many people who had had their lives overturned and had
45:27had loved ones
45:30wake up in the morning and then be taken away by the sea.
45:40So many people in the disaster zone dealt with this unspeakable tragedy with dignity and grace that I found that
45:56inspiring as well.
45:59So it was, anyway, a privilege to be able to report on that.
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