2011年4月22日星期五

Japanese again nuclear zone, while you can

While they were welcomed by the buckling analysis roads and reduced houses are familiar to many Japanese in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami, which here confronted such destruction wrought iron, on 11 March they mean the additional burden that dangerous levels of emissions from the plant of Daiichi could, that they said farewell to their houses for months or years. They would never back some worry.

In Okuma, and close to those who returned a ghost town where traffic lights didn't work abandoned dogs lolled in the empty and cities within the 12-mile zone around the plant from the Government declared off limits streets found.

At a family farm in nearby Tomioka, had the run of the place, eating cows lettuce in the garden and roaming through the garden. The scene was grisly on a farm in Namie: about 40 cows, chained to their post was dead, side by side, in two neighbouring barns. An another dead cow was blood is stretched across the road from the mouth of oozing. A few live cows sat quietly nearby, as if nothing had happened.

In Futaba, a town next to the plant, several characters in the empty streets praised the virtues of nuclear energy. "Nuclear power is energy for a better future," read one. Another said: "The correct understanding of nuclear power leads to a better life."

And at the gate of the Fukushima Daiichi plant itself, a non-authorized car while shooting averted workers in white suits and masks his license plate. On a Board behind the workers, which someone had written, "do not enter."

That verkrüppelten reactors itself, and certainly frenzied work were Los, hills, covers some with cherry trees in full bloom.

While the Government an evacuation of the area ordered shortly after the nuclear emergency, has not enforced the edict it so far, and people have to get things back in the zone, their slip was.

Radiation levels around the plant are from the days just after the accident, clearing-greatly diminished the way for returnees. A reporter who roamed through different parts of the evacuation zone for five hours on Thursday had a total exposure of about 50 Microsieverts, about the same as on a round trip flight between New York and Los Angeles would occur.

With the Government now the evacuation order force, is the question whether those who have ignored it left so far. The Government says that within the 12-mile radius of the plant before the earthquake 78,200 people lived. A police spokesman in Fukushima Prefecture, where the plant is located, said spot checks on 3, 378-addresses in the past three weeks found people at 63 of them.

More than 62,400 people live 12 to 18 miles from the plant. You were told to evacuate or stay indoors.

Tadanori and Eiko Watanabe, the life in the outer zone, about 17 km from the power plant, have not done. While she worried their 16 beef denied on radiation giving up cows. "Our cows are like our family, and we can't they leave here," said Mrs Watanabe, moved as she and her husband away fertiliser in wheelbarrows.

Most of its neighbours have long since left, and their homes are dark. "Especially during the night, it's scary," said Mrs. Watanabe, adding that she and her husband pass the time watching TV. Ms. Watanabe said, when they were ordered to evacuate, rather than only they do obey to would asked. "We are looking for a place, we can go with the cows," she said.

Kiyoshi Abe, a farmer in Minamisoma lives about five miles from the nuclear plants, said he was the only one in his neighborhood not to evacuate. "I am surprised the Japanese are so obedient," he said by telephone.

But Mr Abe, who is 83, said that at his age, "I a little bit of radiation no matter." He has cancer, which he could worsen said if he had to move.

Ken Ijichi contributed reporting from Okuma, Japan, and Yasuko Kamiizumi from Tokyo.


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