Foreign Correspondent: Into the Zone- Fukushima, Japan [View all]

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Foreign Correspondent
ABC Australia
Broadcast: 24/05/2016
Reporter: Mark Willacy
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2015/s4465417.htm

...But there’s a grotesqueness here. Houses which rang with the sounds of life and laughter are being swallowed by weeds and vines; inside they are choked by cobwebs and dust.

This is the countryside of Fukushima. Five years after the nuclear meltdown, it remains full of radiation, and virtually empty of people...


"There was a risk that half or all of Japan could have been destroyed. So in a way the accident took us to the brink of destruction." – Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan

...Willacy was one of the first journalists on the scene after the double headed tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011, and has reported on it extensively since. Now he has been invited on a tour of the plant courtesy of the operator TEPCO.

What’s happening? They don’t want to go any further .– Willacy with TEPCO guides as levels spike on the radiation meter

What Willacy discovers is truly unsettling.


Piles of black bags containing contaminated topsoil

The task of neutralising and retrieving hundreds of tonnes of melted nuclear fuel turns out to be far greater than previously thought. So too might be the eventual cost, as well as the time that will be required to remedy the site –that is, if it can ever be fully remedied...snip
MORE: http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2015/s4465417.htm

"There has never been an accident at a nuclear plant like the one at Fukushima where three reactors had meltdowns. We are currently working on a timetable to decommission the reactors over the next 30 to 40 years. "

Must See TV that won't make it on to the US Airwaves. Especially for Nuclear Energy supporters.