Victims of Fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster

Five Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Survivors Share Their Stories – National Geographic Blog. (n.d.). Retrieved June 14, 2018, from https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2016/03/08/five-years-after-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-survivors-share-their-stories/


This is the interview article from National Geographic.




Yoshiko Amano, Nihonmatsu.
“My children are living and working in Iwaki nearby Namie, our hometown. They work for the Dai Ichi Nuclear Power Plant. They screen people that go in and out of the nuclear reactor to see how much radiation the workers have been exposed to. They do not go in themselves, they work in an area with low levels of radiation, but they are exposed to the people who come from there and I worry about them. It’s been five years since the disaster, but we are willing to go back home. We just want to see the radiation problem solved, but it takes time, and there is nothing to do but wait. We are suffering from stress more than anything. We can’t go home. We can’t go anywhere new. We are stuck in limbo and it has traumatized us. Now it is Winter. Winters here are much colder than Namie. It doesn’t snow there, we could walk around outside in a T-shirt and jacket, but here in Nihonmatsu it starts getting cold after 3 p.m. and I have to wear many layers, but you know, we are used to it now that we’ve been here for so long.”


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