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Monday, March 13, 2017
The prospects for Abe, Edano, Tepco and the "mainstream media" frauds that covered-up this catastrophe are prosecution and prison - if they are lucky
GLOBAL RESEARCH
By Michael Welch and Helen Caldicott
GLOBAL RESEARCH
By Michael Welch and Helen Caldicott
03/12/2017
Six years ago this week, a tsunami, triggered by a category 9.0 earthquake, slammed into the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility on the north east coast of the Japanese island of Honshu.
The natural disaster resulted in the failure of systems keeping the reactor cores and spent fuel rods cool, leading to core meltdowns in three of the plant’s reactors, as well as damage from consequent hydrogen explosions.[2]
Enormous quantities of radioactive particles were released into the atmosphere and the water table leading to the Pacific Ocean. Approximately 170,000 people in the vicinity of the plant were immediately evacuated.
The World Health Organization downplayed the health risks from the catastrophe, concluding in their 2013 Health Risk Assessment from the nuclear accident that the risks of contracting certain cancers in certain sex and age groups were only “somewhat elevated.” The report also concluded “no discernable increase in health risks from the Fukushima event is expected outside Japan.” [3]
Nevertheless, a health management survey examining 38,000 children in Fukushima found three children diagnosed with thyroid cancer. The natural incidence is one in one million. [4] Further, a December 2011 peer-reviewed report in the International Journal of Health Sciences found that in the 14 weeks immediately following the event, there were 14,000 excess deaths in the United States connected with radio-active fall-out from the Fukushima meltdowns. [5]
The Japanese government has been so successful in its efforts to assuage the concerns of the wider public that Prime Minister Abe was able to secure Tokyo as the site for the 2020 Olympic Summer Games.
As of this month, the Abe government ends its housing subsidies to people evacuated from the area proximate to the nuclear facility, forcing those fearful of the lingering radiation to fend for themselves abroad. [6][7]
The nuclear accident may have profound consequences for all humanity, and possibly all life on Earth, yet the severity of the situation doesn’t seem to merit major headlines.
On this, the sixth anniversary of the start of the Fukushima crisis, we spend the hour with world renowned nuclear watchdog, Dr. Helen Caldicott.
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Length (59:09)
Notes:
2) ibid
3) “Health Risk Assessment from the nuclear accident after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami” (World Health Organization 2013) p. 9; http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/78218/1/9789241505130_eng.pdf
4) Hisako Sakiyama (2013) from the Symposium at the New York Academy of Medicine March 11-12, 2013; quoted in Crisis Without End: The MEdical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe, p.40, edited by Helen Caldicott
5) Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman, “14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout,” International Journal of Health Services, December 19, 2011,
6) “Abe claims Fukushima radioactive water woes are ‘under control’ ” The Japan Times, October 16, 2013; http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/16/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-claims-fukushima-radioactive-water-woes-are-under-control/#.WMN7VNQrLs1
7) Satoshi Iizuka (March 7, 2017), “Financial crunch time looms for Fukushima’s ‘voluntary evacuees’”, The Japan Times; http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/07/national/social-issues/financial-crunch-time-looms-fukushimas-voluntary-evacuees/#.WMN9ZtQrLs1
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