Ex-Fukushima Worker: Evacuation zone should be 80km — “Almost as though they are living inside a nuclear power plant” (VIDEO)

Published: December 15th, 2011 at 9:43 am ET
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Title: Ex-Fukushima Plant Worker Press Conference
Uploaded by: MrJapanjp
Uploaded: Dec 14, 2011
Speaker: Tomohiko Suzuki, Ex-Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Worker, Press Conference

At 6:00 in

  • Absolutely correct that humans should not be living within 80 km of Fukushima plant
  • So many large cities in Fukushima Prefecture, the government decided it was too impossible to evacuate large cities (Iwaki, Fukushima, Koriyama)
  • All of the experts I have spoken with have said people in the 80 km area are exposed to a great deal of radiation
  • Some people have said it is “almost as though they are living inside a nuclear power plant”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rzLTS7mZkKY#t=335s

Published: December 15th, 2011 at 9:43 am ET
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20 comments to Ex-Fukushima Worker: Evacuation zone should be 80km — “Almost as though they are living inside a nuclear power plant” (VIDEO)

  • Captain Quark Captain Quark

    It begins….


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  • oscar419

    mud… It B slinging time.


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose

    This is what I meant about Jaczko’s call for ..a 50 km evacuation being insufficient..
    …80 km..is probably insufficient..
    …The NRC recommendation of 12 km…criminal.


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  • 250 – 5000 km… cough.

    Mind you this is in all directions, Mainly east


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    • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose

      more coughing… small clearing of the throat…


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    • Johnny Blade Johnny Blade

      add a few thousand more to that “eastern” boundary if the cesium deposition maps from France,etc. are accurate and when the MANY more release events after March & April are taken into account including seasonal jetstream pattern changes & ocean currents,precipitation,temperature inversions,Earth-directed CME’s with atmospheric I-131,133,etc. “spallation” related to solar-event interactions previously not seen or known of,throw in a “baker’s dozen” or so “lesser”known events of unknown volume & types of releases with whatever is expected to be “set free” during normal refueling & maintenance outages & “venting” processes??!! What region will be “honestly” worthy of NOT having reached Post-Chernobyl,Pre-3/11 radiation levels that would’ve been considered harmful enough to require evacuation as mandatory or optional response criteria even now,much less by the time the “slim to no chance” that anyone with enough “juice” to put the brakes on the Nuclear Age could or would “wake up”??!! I can’t think of anywhere that won’t be “hot & dirty” and I’m not talking temperature-wise either. ~Good Luck All~


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  • Fact: US govt said anyone living within 80km should be evacuated.

    Fact: Japan and TEPCO refused to do this.

    Fact: People living within this ‘hot’ zone are now being exposed to high levels of radiation, because the government thought it would be too ‘difficult’ and expensive to relocate all of these people.

    How many people live within 80KM?


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    • James2

      I remember the number of 2 million – I think that was within 40Km and that’s why they would only go 20Km.

      The issue is not whether people should move or not – it’s money. Relocating 2 million families would cost what? $100Billion. They don’t have it, and their money supply is dwindling by the day.

      Now the right thing to do would be to say – if you are within this range, you should evacuate – and not provide any means to do it, and see how many can and help the ones who can’t.

      But that would mean admitting the truth on a couple of things: First the disaster is not anywhere close to cold shutdown, and more importantly that the Japanese economy is teetering on collapse as a result of this.

      As soon as other countries see that one nuke disaster bankrupts the third largest economy in the world, then that will finally put the spotlight where it belongs: on the risks associated with nuclear power.


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      • maaa

        Get rid of the money system. We humans have come a long way. How can we let money restrict us in things we do.


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        • NoVictimNoFraudNoCrime

          Look it’s simple. Sure, the Government should relocate everyone. But they don’t have the money. Then don’t have a Government relocation project. Have a PEOPLE based relocation project. There is no reason why the government couldn’t provide the truth…and let the PEOPLE decide. If the government can’t move the people, why should it naturally follow that the government must cover up the truth? TELL THE DAMN TRUTH and let the people find the means to decide for themselves. There are always friends, families, charitable organizations that could help people who want to get more than 80 km away. But if the Government won’t tell the truth because the Government doesn’t want to or can’t take the responsibility for everyone, then free the people to make their own arrangements and free other people to help. Voluntarily. The TRUTH and FREEDOM are the only things that can help at this point.


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  • maaa

    Long Video. Absolutely no progress and Yakuza.


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    • Caveat Emptor

      On the Yakuza

      Approximately 10% of workers at the plant involve subcontractors with a Yakuza connection.

      The Yakuza were originally part of the local and regional nuclear power plant community before the accident and the Yakuza have increased their influence in the local and regional community and in the resolution of the crisis.

      Work is completed. The “liability” is transferred to partner companies.

      Yakuza are not involved in working on-site.

      Yakuza that are involved are involved in collecting people to work on-site.

      Most workers that are brought there may not be aware that it was a Yakuza partner company.

      The official directive is if one works and is involved with a counterparty that is Yakuza it is illegal.

      Yakuza contractor layers can involve 6-7 layers up to a 10th subcontractor.

      Territorial rights for regions for Yakuza organizations are very complex.


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  • goathead goathead

    I don’t think it matters now because the radiation has been found to be practically everywhere! and in some cases it’s higher further away from Fukushima! Yes, they should have have a huge evacuation zone at the time and it’s criminal why they didn’t but now all of Japan is that evacuation zone, slowly spreading out across the globe and effecting the rest of us! Now, I’m not for the death penalty in any way whatsoever but there could be some cathartic benefit in watching Tepco & co, one by one, being tossed into these reactors on state television!!! Why not!!


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  • Actually, the same kind of scenario played out in Russia and TMI as well.

    The government and pro nukes seemed to be the ones saying everything is safe, no need to evacuate, or making artificially low boundaries for this.

    Around Chernobyl, there are many hot zones outside of the exclusion zone, with just as much radiation as inside the exclusion zone, but people living there have not been evacuated.

    With the FUKU crisis, many hot zones with high radiation spread north for quite a ways, way past the 80 km mark. As others have pointed out, there are also hot zones going east and south.

    Somehow, no one is moved away from these, and no one even seems interested in finding out where these hot spots are.

    I just finished reading a report about Hiroshima and Nagasaki… US troops were stationed in both cities, right after the bombing. They mapped the radiation, but from what I understand, that did not stop development of high plutonium and radiation containing soil contaminated areas right in the heart of both cities. Plutonium takes 25,000 years to decay, so I KNOW that these areas did not become ‘safe’ or non toxic since 1945.

    The problem with radiation is that it is invisible. No one sees it, smells it or hears it, so it ‘disappears’, as soon as the news stops talking about it, despite it still being there.


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  • I would call for evacuation of all areas, ACCORDING TO DANGEROUS AREAS ON THE MAP…plus a circle of 50 miles all around FUKU.

    This would probably mean moving 3 million people, maybe more.

    This is precisely why this was NOT done.

    Now instead of paying to move people.. the government and people involved will be paying for MANY, MANY generations to come, in the form of health costs, lost work days, reduced productivity, genetic problems, and the list just goes on and on and on…

    So sad, so tragic… I hope the world can and will learn something from this tragedy.


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  • Johnny Blade Johnny Blade

    So “what’s done is done”-”too bad”-”smile away” the fatal particle(s)chasing each & every one of us around the globe & move on with your shortened lives???!!! WTF do they think they’re doing!!?? If they feel comfortable with the fact that less than 1% of the population realizes wtf is going on & wtf has been done to us-they’d better keep in mind that a small percentage of that “enlightened”(irradiated)& exremely pissed off public sector might have something unpleasant in mind for them with a flexible start date for their own very personal & very carefully considered selective extermination agenda based on the day they lose someone they care deeply for,or confirm that they’re terminally ill themselves with a greater than 50% certainty that their affliction was most likely due to radioactive contaminants released into the environment with Fukushima & it’s operator’s & co-conspirator’s in govt. & agencies charged with protecting the public health & well-being,but consciously chose not to even alert anyone outside of their own about the hazards & measures that could’ve & should’ve at least been offered as optiional,or good “advice”!! I wouldn’t want to elaborate since anyone who wasn’t “programmed” through subliminal messaging or not “smiling” away & repelling the radiation is likely deemed an enemy subversive & domestic terrorist and probably even moved from the “shitlist” to the “hitlist” if they were to sign off “in blood” on the above described “suggestion” as an actual “vendetta” that is actively harbored by any of their victims still displaying this mindset when the programming & brainwashing operation is taken to the “full speed ahead” phase that would be implemented to counter the effects they’d see from the public response to people everywhere unexplainably “dropping like flies” as the delayed reaction to exposure becomes realized & those complicit in “High Crimes & Treason” are “exposed” as well!!~PEACE~


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  • Caveat Emptor

    incredible and alarming presentation

    -In regards to “Cold Shutdown”

    They have maintained temperature less than 100 degrees.
    The question is can they maintain this for year after year while maintaining workers.

    - In at 28:53:
    At Fukushima Daichii Unit One there is absolutely no progress being made in a closure to this crisis.

    We are just now beginning “the main event” in regards to the aftermath of this accident.

    -Closing: The situation is quite dire.


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