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The people of Fukushima think it is too late.
They think they have been contaminated and the country has abandoned them.
They can't do anything about it so they better live without worrying.
A lot of people think like this.
Today, i was reading in the paper,
that the children of Fukushima say they will die of radioactivity anyway,
so there is no need to study.
It is not only the cancer risk that grows. For example, heart attacks also.
Cesium goes into the muscles,
and men have more muscles, so they will be more contaminated by cesium.
Heart muscles do not renew themselves.
You said earlier that cesium was being expelled from the body.
But radioactive cesium in the heart muscles doesn't go away.
The risk of stroke grows also,
diabetes also,
vascular diseases, and other diseases too...
In spite of that, they just say "everything is fine".
This is because these are diseases anyone can have.
And when they appear,
there is no way to prove it comes from radioactivity.
Concerning this accident, we will have to face all this,
face the fact that we have been contaminated, that it is still not over,
that there is still no serious compensation even though we lost our way of life.
and that for a long period of time our health will be exposed to danger.
Can we just go on saying "Everything is fine".
We need to face the problem otherwise it will never be solved.
For many years,
Japanese electricity companies have hidden information.
In 2007, it was revealed that nuclear power plants had hidden many accidents.
On this occasion a complete report was ordered with many details.
It revealed 456 accidents.
Among them, there had been very serious accidents.
And they has hidden everything.
All the electricity companies showed their datas.
However, i could not help but think that there must have been more.
We lost trust.
And now, when we are told something we can only doubt.
We wonder if it is really true.
Trust was broken because of a few things.
They knew there was a meltdown and they didn't say it.
To avoid the explosion and release the internal pressure,
they vent radioactive vapor into the air releasing a lot of radioactivity.
But when they did this, they didn't inform the population to escape in a certain direction.
they didn't say the quantity released into the air. They didn't say anything.
And it was only after the accident, one, two, three months later,
that the inhabitants of the cities nearby,
Futaba, Okuma, or Minami-Soma,
finally learnt about the facts, one after the other.
This was an unbelievable situation.
They were not prepared to crises management, and although these facts were openly revealed,
one year has passed, and there is still noone to take a responsability.
Before and after the disaster, the very same people are still in charge.
It is an incredible situation.
If they had changed to new people, people whom we could trust
It would have been different.
And if they had opened information to the public,
in such a way that trust would be rebuilt
this would have changed everything.