Fukushima : « On s'est laissé acheter par Tepco », raconte un maire | Rue89 Planète. Janick Magne, candidate Europe Ecologie - Les Verts aux législatives 2012 pour les Français d’ex-URSS, d’Asie et d’Océanie, est allée à la rencontre des réfugiés de Fukushima. Katsutaka Idogawa ne décolère pas. Le maire de la petite ville de Futaba, commune de la zone interdite qui se trouve tout près de la centrale nucléaire accidentée, reçoit les visiteurs dans sa mairie provisoire. Il est installé dans une salle au rez-de-chaussée d’un lycée désaffecté, à Kazo, dans le banlieue nord de Tokyo, à 200 kilomètres de Fukushima. C’est là qu’il s’est réfugié il y a près d’un an déjà avec 1 300 de ses administrés, soit 20% des habitants de sa commune.
Ceux qui en avaient l’énergie et la possibilité ont cherché travail et logement ailleurs. Mais le maire assure qu’il garde le contact avec tous les évacués, où qu’ils soient. Tepco a changé le paysage et les mentalités Monsieur le maire se souvient de l’achat de leurs terres à prix d’or. . « On s’est laissé acheter », dit le maire.
Media Silent on Fukushima Radiation Impact in US. Sometimes big news stories can only be seen by the shadows they cast. You would think that it should be easy to find detailed updates on the Fukushima disaster's impact on our fishing industry, milk production, global radiation distribution patterns, etc. You would be mistaken. The massive media coverage following the initial disaster has fallen nearly silent. Some frustrated environmental advocates have suggested that there is a media blackout. Probably not, but media follow-up stories are few and far between these days. In July of last year there were major stories about Fukushima and the plum of radiation reaching across the Pacific Ocean towards North America. On July 16, 2012, Deborah Dupre of the Examiner reported the following: The article was accompanied by this scary graphic: Radioactive Seawater Impact Map by Radioactive Seawater Impact Map Credits: US Department of State Geographer, TerraMetrics, Google (One recent article can be found here: click here)
The interview of Idogawa Mayor of Futaba Town after his resignation.
Fukushima town mayor resigns over post-disaster frustrations. Fukushima Update | Nuclear News from Japan. Cancer risk 70% higher for females in Fukushima area, says WHO. Cancer Risk From Fukushima Found in Japanese Infants. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy Infants who were in the Japanese region most affected by radiation after the 2011 tsunami have a slightly elevated lifetime risk of some cancers, according to the World Health Organization. Baby girls in the region have the greatest relative risk increase – 70 percent for thyroid cancer – the agency said in a 168-page health risk assessment. But the agency cautioned that's on top a small baseline lifetime risk of 0.75 percent, so that the absolute increase in cases of thyroid cancer is expected to be small. Read this story on www.medpagetoday.com.
The assessment also says that male infants exposed at the highest level – between 12 and 25 millisieverts – have about a 7 percent relative risk increase in the lifetime risk of leukemia and that female infants have about a 6 percent increase in the lifetime risk of breast cancer. Report: Fukushima's radiation damaged more souls than bodies. March 11 is the second anniversary of the great quake and tsunamiThe cancer risk rose only slightly in very small areas near the reactors, the WHO saysYoung men, who battled the plant disaster, may see a rise in thyroid cancerPeople exposed as children have a slightly elevated risk of certain cancers in their lifetimes (CNN) -- Two years ago, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake generated a tsunami of historic proportions that waylaid Japan's northeast coastline, including a nuclear power plant.
As Fukushima Daiichi unraveled in global public view with fire, explosions and radioactive emissions for weeks, people living nearby were exposed to radiation and trauma. The trauma was worse, the World Health Organization said in a report released Thursday on the health effects of the "Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. " New video shows Japan nuclear disaster How to prevent another Fukushima What caused the Fukushima disaster The woman powering Japan's nuclear hopes post-Fukushima Stories of hardship.
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