A solution requires determined action and a high degree of delicacy.
After the loss of family members of the tsunami and earthquake, would Japanese usually go forward most with a traditional cremation and kin place the remains with those of the victims. But the posts in the vicinity of the plant have suspended radiation, so that it is potentially dangerous to handle, or to move. And almost a month after the disaster it so they are transported can decontamination increasingly impossible.
The earthquake and tsunami, which badly bruised damaged the property of Tokyo Electric Power Co., or TEPCO Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant Japan on 11 March.? Since the crisis over the plant built, called the Japanese Government for the evacuation of residents within of 12 miles from the damaged plant, which is now essentially a no. go zone.
The Government has a plan have?
Emergency responder fought since then have to cool the plant reactors and prevent a catastrophic meltdown. But several explosions, fires and discharged water from the plant have radiation in the air and sea in the vicinity of the plant, which released anyone who remains in the area - including the dead.
The Japanese Government has a plan for the facilities in "hot zone", has not publicly made it. The Japanese Ministry of health, labour and Social Affairs, which is the disposition of disaster victims remains, did not respond to msnbc.com queries on the subject and said very little about it.
For the first three days of April, some mounted a massive search for thousands of deaths or missing people 25,000 Japanese and American troops. But they have entered, none of the 12-mile "Exclusion zone" around the Fukushima plant of Japanese Government according to.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, which is closely related to the Japanese Government, radiation in the water and food to monitor do not work as Japanese authorities plan, deal with the victims of Fukushima.
"This is that clarification and information from Japan, who were trying to IAEA and other United Nations organizations have an area of concern," said Dana Sacchetti, a spokeswoman for the IAEA.
The losses from the quake, tsunami and evacuation due to the ongoing crisis in the work may allow safe handling of the body for cremation Japanese tradition - still yet another blow for people.
'Worst Case' scenario for survivors
"they say, is in the worst case, if you nothing to bury or burn, that is, why the survivor family members are desperate," said Kyoko Tokuno, lecturer of Asian religions at University of Washington in Seattle. "What they do want to bring back, which remains, which requires finding the body and incinerate them is."
International, there are different protocols to manage all types of materials with radiation, including that contaminated.
Two sets of msnbc.com made available - a 1000-page Protocol of the National Council on radiation safety in the United States and similar guidelines from the Centers for disease control issued - urge against cremation, ask instead deeply buried in a sealed container with radiation warning symbols marked.
One way describes the numeric character references to the decontamination of a body, which safely above all it could for a cremation, if, as the victims in Fukushima, the body was only externally contaminated.
"If it is a surface contamination, as this was likely... usually you could wash it off or wipe it and clothing that most remove the contamination", said Kathryn Higley, head of the Department of nuclear engineering and health Radiation Physics at the Oregon State University. "But the body decomposes, so it might be more complicated."
Facilities, the probably 'not intact'
After more than three weeks outside would facilities of Quake tsunami victims "not, but not intact, either, per after California forensic scientists, skeletonized are", spoke on the condition that he not be identified.
A Japanese press report said that a worker at the nuclear power plant had killed decontaminated einge?schert and was.
Other reports indicate that decontamination has already impractical or impossible in some cases.
Japan's Kyodo News Service reported that the police in Fukushima pushed collecting remains of the dead after measuring one extremely high level of radiation on the body of a man found on 27.
"Police were testing carry out where the bodies are found, decontamination" according to the report. But an other Kyodo report four days later said that "there are some difficulties to cleaning the body what to damage the already decomposing victims."
Even identification will be difficult, according to the Kyodo report:
"The victims can be used to extract nails for DNA tests for the identification, but nails need to also be decontaminated and this takes tremendous amount of work and time," it said.
Cremation believed release karmic energy
Cremation is important, Japanese Buddhists, because it is thought to release the karmic energy, that and leads to future rebirth. This belief and Japan's severe shortage of land for cemeteries, means that almost all Japanese are burned to death.
The idea of restoring the bones is perhaps even more important, so that they can be placed in the family vault, with kin.
"One of the things that is important for people that members together, buried the family are", said Tokuno, lecturer of the University of Washington. "Are scattered all over is not reassuring." Be buried together... is very comforting. "
For now the Japanese Government is engaged in the crisis on the reactor in Fukushima, but Tokuno says that there new problems will be, if this fails, to take survivors concerns into account.
"The Government and the TEPCO do not observe and delay the proper treatment of people of basic needs - including, as they treat the late tradition - it can be some serious consequences," said Tokuno. "I think, there will be an outcry."
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