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I thought that was the black one and that was the white. I made a mistake when I ate it...
Yes, it was the wrong one. And I ate two of them.
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KEI TAKAHASHI FOUNDER OF A&S FUKUSHIMA, MINAMI-SOMA
Here, we measure radioactivity in food, drinking water and soil...
Thanks to that, we can check fields, rice fields.
That's the first thing we inspect here.
Then, we also lend Geiger counters for free.
That's the main activity of this association.
Here is the radiation map of the city.
We have added colours to it.
When you go from East to West, the level of radiation increases.
The nuclear plant is down there.
The radioactive particles have spread this way.
For the city of Minami-Soma, it's the mountainous area
which has the highest radioactive pollution.
I'm 17. I'm in my final year of high-school.
I live in Minami-Soma.
My house is situated about twenty kilometers from the plant.
It's quite close. And the level of radioactivity was quite high.
In the entrance of the house, there was 1.7 microsieverts
and now, it has decreased to 0.8.
It's just a little high.
- So you are not worried anymore?
No, we don't think about it too much.
- And what about the food? Do you eat as you usually would?
Yes, we eat as usual, without paying too much attention
everything that my grand-mother buys, vegetables from the area, even spinach...
- But why? Isn't it dangerous?
Everything is checked before being sold, and we trust what we eat.
Among the people who work for TEPCO,
a high percentage have cancer, and leukaemia.
I was often told to be careful.
- Yet, you have been working there for 20 years? Yes, indeed.
- Aren't you afraid of cancer?
I think I'm more likely
to get cancer due to cigarettes than radioactivity.
- What do you think about nuclear plants? Are you against them?
They don't bother me. - There can be plants... I'm not against.
We've already had an accident once, it surely cannot happen again.
Now, they're going to build very robust nuclear plants.
I think that we can have them. Nothing should happen anymore.
But we'd just like them to build structures that can hold.
We need electricity so nuclear plants are necessary.
If they build solid plants, then I'm not against.
I am against.
In Sapporo in Hokkaido Prefecture, we have Tomari nuclear plant.
Hokkaido island has amazing natural landscapes.
If the plant explodes like in Fukushima, it would be like here...
and the image of Hokkaido would suffer from that too.
So I think that we don't need them.
Build a new nuclear plant, why not? But for places where there is already a plant,
the people who are against it should first of all be offered the possibility to be relocated
to a place where they won't be at risk.
For the ones who express that they don't want to live near a plant.
We should give them the possibility to get re-housed from the start.
If we do that, then I wouldn't be against it.
- Isn't the plant stable?
- No, it's absolutely not stable.
At the moment, we still do not control what is happening.
We're really on a tightrope.
We're barely keeping the situation in control.
Anything can happen at anytime.
If you decide to live here, you cannot allow yourself to be worried.
Mentally, it would be too hard.
If everyday, you think "I'm afraid", then you cannot live here.
The ones who have decided to live here, have also decided to abandon this fear.
You just have to be prepared in case something happens.
If you are careful like this that's enough.
People from outside look at Fukushima, and think that everything is contaminated.
They say it's dangerous, and they don't want to get close to us.
We can't do anything if they think that of us. We can't change anything.
But for the people who live here, if they throw in the towel, it's over.
We cannot accept what has happened, but it has happened,
and now we can only continue to live with it.