How Japan Is Responding To Fukushima Five Years Later (HBO)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced plans to clean up Fukushima, the site of a massive 2011 nuclear disaster, and move former residents back by spring 2017. But not everyone wants to go back.
“It’s not possible in my lifetime,” Katsutaka Idogawa, former mayor of Futaba Prefecture, told VICE News correspondent Isobel Yeung. “The radiation doesn’t go away that easily.”
Radioactive materials remain hazardous for hundreds of years, but just five years have passed since the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. Japan’s effort to clean up more than 600 square miles is estimated to cost the government over $180 billion.
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“It’s not possible in my lifetime,” Katsutaka Idogawa, former mayor of Futaba Prefecture, told VICE News correspondent Isobel Yeung. “The radiation doesn’t go away that easily.” Watch more Isobel Yeung on VICE News Tonight here - bit.ly/2yp3Rk2

[@j11smith]

Please let this journalist do more of your reports. This was the best one I've seen, and a big part of that was her voice and presentation.

[@bodybalancer]

That $180 Billion figure is not accurate - because they haven't factored in the medical bills of all the people they've paid BIG BUCKS to make themselves sick with cancer performing a fake move the mess around clean up job. The Russians did what has to be done- abandon the area. It's lost. It's WHY we can't have nuclear power like this. There Must be better ways. The risk is too great. It's gone into our Pacific Ocean and is affecting all life on earth. It will change the course of life on earth. It is huge. It's bigger than Chernobyl. It's irreparable. We are living in a new age. It's a toxic one.

[@user-mb2im5nv9r]

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[@Klote3241]

@@bodybalancer oh shut ur yap nuclear power is a good and safe option! safer then wind mills and solar panels more people die every year because of maintenance faults and errors on those product then nuclear power has! Only 2 out of 450 nuclear power plants have failed. thats a less then 1% failure rate!! stop spreading fear!

[@charlesharper2357]

@@bodybalancer Rubbish. You do realize that Japanese people have been living over ground zero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki for over 60 years?

[@chedsalvia6270]

the abandoned streets look cleaner than the street I live next to

[@mistypixstudios6304]

which country?

[@nyless]

omg same

[@jimmy1395]

@@mistypixstudios6304 East Europe

[@skullgamer0036]

That's japan clean !

[@skullgamer0036]

@My Thoughts Dude if you got to japan , you'll see its clean no trash or gum on the floor !

[@dkwhattouseasusername1012]

KZbin be like 2016: nah 2017: nah 2018: nah 2019: yes perfect

[@Taserth]

Anton Dereke if you actually think it is perfect right now after the show

[@dkwhattouseasusername1012]

@@Taserth what show

[@Taserth]

@@dkwhattouseasusername1012 chernobyl from HBO

[@dkwhattouseasusername1012]

@@Taserth ohhhhh

[@gspcrazy3719]

It’s in recommended because Chernobyl is becoming more popular

[@Nzombii]

That oncologist was a little too happy.

[@nyx211]

You have stage 3 rectal cancer! lololol!

[@user-li8hp6xx2i]

Ass doctor looks at assholes.

[@adamwatson5654]

It's to try cheer up the patient, to give no indication of his doubts about whether the patient will live or not.

[@aeonian_harshul]

OPTIMISM MAN, OPTIMISM

[@Krystalmyth]

"Yo, you got butt cancer. Buuuut I'm going to put you on medication. For your butt. Get it?! Lol you'll be fine."

[@robt400]

the workers cleaning that shit up should be hailed as national heroes.

[@inouelenhatduy]

well at least they were taking care by govt unlike 9/11 worker in america that dying slowy or ex soviet worker that work in chernobu cleaning + many people hailed the worker that die fighting to control the reactior when it melt down and people that work to clean this shit up + i think 2022 it will be safe to return 2017 abit to early but many zone near fukushima been clean and start moving back but the zone 10mile need more cleaning and time i think

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@inouelenhatduy ''chernobu'' Hahaha! You are so lost...

[@OrangeVision]

So basically you can clean up the leaves and stuff with enormous effort, but every time it rains, they're pretty much set back to square one?

[@Phenomiracle]

Basically.

[@rkan2]

Not really. Recovering contaminated base-soil is a big reducer in radioactivity levels.. Living around mos of this stuff is pretty safe. However much like lead, you don't want to be ingesting too much of anything from the ground though...

[@IsomerSoma]

@@low_budget_waifu "when the water evaporates into water molecules" - lowbudgetwaifu 2017

[@tsunsanqty]

Isomer Soma it should be gas right? 😂

[@IsomerSoma]

@@tsunsanqty No only thing here was that he said water turning into water molecules. Water in liquid or gas are both water molecules. Dont mind me.

[@ohnkiii]

Its like they cleaned before they evacuated

[@PolskiHetman]

C h a r l s i Japan is a clean country Idk how they enforce their laws on littering and stuff like that

[@MC-tm2uy]

I've been to Japan multiple times and see how they "enforced" it. If you stay in Japan long enough you will see tiny school children walking around with trash bag. The children are taught from very young age (as soon as they enter kindergarten) to carry bag and keep trash in there and not to litter. So it's ingrained in the culture. I have friends that live in Japan, and they told me that is very true. Their kids would be taught to keep things cleanly (the kids do weekly clean up of their school, instead of having else do it). So yes they just grow up like that

[@JustRandomPerson]

@@PolskiHetman Everyone keep trash with them they don't have trash bins on the street.

[@johnstockson2218]

Are you Abe?

[@user-ow9ct6nt8k]

I have watched many shows where Japanese students are assigned to clean school after their classes The students rotate the job

[@cg3810]

I think the prime minister and the politicians should lead by example...move in first

[@calx7168]

Politicians are pussys they would not go there

[@Itzmie]

Anarchy Wow you should say that infront of shinzo abe and a lot of Japanese will be angry at you...

[@erikodegaard2943]

C G no its 15,000

[@Sugafull27]

You say that to Abe and the police and army will arrest you 😂😂😂

[@kangaruri2157]

典型的な外国人。

[@susanb4816]

the evacuation zone should have been at least 50 miles, by international standards

[@mr.anonymous3103]

Susan B and even at 50 miles children under 15 are not safe enough, they have not developed about antibodies to protect themselves as adults. And also babies can be born sick with cancer because of it, even 100 miles it’s cutting it close, especially because of the rain and clouds carrying the radiation from city to city.

[@sidsolanki]

japan dot have that much land to spare

[@goyangi2014]

ima keep it at 69 so it’s more Japanese

[@Ash2theB]

Agreed! All of Sendai should have been evacuated periodt. I was so confused why the government needed to do this. Plain idiotic.

[@emiledin2183]

@@mr.anonymous3103 I'm sorry but antibodies? how does that protect from radiation?

[@haemin8759]

Enjoy the Olympic games there. Oh, Shinzo Abe declared that all the food served to Olympians will be prepared from the food harvested in Fukushima.

[@user-yk2es2xn5j]

Omg.....weird!!!!

[@x9lt231]

Food from Fukushima, not great but not terrible.

[@OhSoLiliana]

@@x9lt231 I think you should eat it! Along with the finest harvest from Chernobyl. Please eat all of the Chernobyl harvest as well :).

[@ruby9187]

Do you really think japanese people serve food have may affect people if they eat fukushima leave there things and abandon their home to be safe and you say this to make stupid joke

[@haemin8759]

@@ruby9187 Then why don't you go and support the Japanese government by eating those foods? Stupid jokes? Are you're that stupid to say that? Have you been living there or you live in your own world and only believe what you want to believe?

[@Ethereal18]

Chernobyl is still a quarantine zone even after 33 years, now japan government trying to move people back to Fukushima and exporting Fukushima food product overseas in just 8 years...just WTF!

[@someprick7053]

And yet chernobyl got level 6 but fukushima got level 7 on the disaster scale

[@gnomie3908]

I think it was due to the difference in radiation isotope's (think thats the right word? 😂) half life. Despite the fact that there were three reactor melt downs in Fukushima they were able to control it quicker.

[@sumsar01]

Fukushima didn't see nearly the same level of meltdown. The catastrophe is way overhyped. It is estimated that a resident of Fukushima will receive 10.000 microsieverts more in their lifetime because of it. In comparison, one ct-scan gives you 7.000 microsieverts and smoking gives you 160.000 microsieverts a year. Also, the current level of radiation in Fukushima is lower than the natural level some places. source: I'm a physicist or you can watch Veritasium's video or read a Wikipedia page.

[@theobrigham]

if you watched the video, the soviets did nothing to try and cleanup but the japanese have spent billions to fix the land. sure its not the greatest area to live but its not like they are sending them to their deaths. nobody is forced to live there are they...

[@gnomie3908]

@@theobrigham they've have tried to clean it up but they didn't admit their was a problem straight away.

[@scarletminivet743]

Decontamination workers = Unsung heroes

[@hika_tube4768]

As a Japanese, I really appreciate this video. Because I hardly see this kind of detailed documentary on Fukushiima on Japanese TV. KZbin is a lot informative than Japanese media.

[@iw2205]

The radiation level... is it 3.6 rontgen?

[@MrDai_]

Hbo xd

[@sidex15]

not great but not terrible...

[@north7764]

Just like a chest X-ray.

[@jinvermillion6314]

Ihsan Widyantono YOU DIDN’T!!!! BECAUSE ITS NOT THERE!!!!

[@Pr0ud4ng3l]

i've been told it's the equivalent of a chest x-ray

[@8bitReverie]

By mid 2020, Fukushima residents have been reported to develop super power abilities.

[@charlesharper2357]

Funny...people in Nagasaki and Hiroshima haven't...and they've been living there for over 60 years.

[@Fred_the_1996]

R/woooosh

[@MrCazador123]

Ah I see my hero academia

[@deceptivecompactmemoryseal610]

@@Fred_the_1996 who are you wooshing??

[@mathewgoquesan3322]

And hence, Boku no hero academia is born in real life.

[@Theiwillsurviveguy]

Nuclear energy is save as long as you don't build the power plants in places where tsunami's or earthquakes happen alot *cough* Japan *cough*

[@psyantologist]

It is very shortsighted to consider nuclear energy "safe", anywhere. It's an energy source that has you ending up with contaminated waste material that needs to be stored _safely_ for more than tens of thousands of years, next to fuel rods including the materials used to built the reactors and near-by facilities. It is foolish to assume that no accidents will happen, ever - yet restricting the scope for accidents on natural disasters alone is just as foolish.

[@winnielovestrash2221]

The majority of nuclear disasters happen from mismanagement. the biggest risk w/ nuclear power is human mistakes you're so wrong lol

[@winnielovestrash2221]

+Wont Tell I agree, why go nuclear when there are so many natural & genuinely safe options available to us? There is zero need for nuclear power in this day & age.

[@psyantologist]

a boy The safest option we could do today is to stop wasting energy like madmen. Every megawatt we don't use is one megawatt we don't have to produce. There are countries that heavily rely on nuclear - like France. Willful dependance. France fights wars over their supply of nuclear material because keeping the lights on at night indeed is a matter of national security for them and they cannot afford to care that the raw materials technically belong to someone else. If we as societes put a fraction of the subsidies for nuclear into research for proper energy storage and another fraction of it into research of nuclear fusion, we'd be golden. Yet while we idle around, the companies who earn most of their money with fossile fuels stash away the patents that the future of our energy depends on, to squeeze the very last dime out of a dying system with no regard to the ecological implications. We're most efficient at fucking shit up and striving to get better and better at it.

[@winnielovestrash2221]

+Wont Tell I disagree that simply using less energy is the safest option long term, but I do see how that could help short term. In Chile recently their solar energy industry boomed & they had so much energy they were giving it away. It's funny, citizens were receiving electricity for FREE & many people threw a fit because it could be seen as bad for the market & economy. (read: bad for a handful of companies & investors) the majority of the country only benefited yet people still couldn't enjoy it for such frivolous reasons The switch to renewable clean energy is necessary and putting it off for so long will cause unneeded pain & expenses. I think investments into solar, hydro, wind, biomass, & geothermal energy are our best bets. It's cheaper, it's renewable, it's clean, & it's plentiful. It would leave everyone happy & healthy... besides nonrenewable energy based companies of course. That'll be the end of an era for them. They're putting it off for as long as they can.

[@mandog1872]

this is the first documentry Ive seen with a realistic view of situation.... 'radiation doesnt go away that easily' like the mayor said its going to be hundereds of years until fukashima is clean again... they should just abandon the place and clean it as much as they can, but move somwhere else!

[@MineCrafterCity]

Omg everything in my recommended is about radiations 😂 yt what are you doing

[@justadudepassingby5716]

Ur fcking right dude

[@hazebro2044]

thank the new Chernobyl series lmao

[@jarskil8862]

What radiation? I dont see any. You are just delusional.

[@toxicity6911]

KZbin confirmed as VaultTech

[@Randomvideos-yr6cc]

Might be youtube wanted to make you an expert in radiarion topic.😂

[@eyesee1212]

Is Prime Minister Shinzo Abe going to be moving there with his family ??

[@ukheo7953]

Nop

[@parkyp8952]

If you want to eat Fukushima radioactive food, come to the 2020 Olympic Games in Japan!😫

[@kangaruri2157]

外国人バカ。

[@microRiZu]

@@kangaruri2157

[@kangaruri2157]

@@microRiZu ありがとうございました。人々が私たちの文化を楽しんでいるのはとてもうれしいですが、無礼な人はあまり歓迎されません。

[@microRiZu]

​@@kangaruri2157 In this world there are plenty of people who are rude the only thing you can do is ignore them because if you tell them what they are doing is wrong they will become much more rude towards you, in the end all you can do is ignore them. Japan's culture and their environment they've grown in makes them a good member of society but in many foreign countries people do whatever they wanna do and no one can stop them due to their culture and environment they've grown in, Hope you understand this.

[@MrNextMx]

Tasty!

[@user-xk8jf8wf1d]

2020 tokyo olympic athletes gonna eat fukushima rice and food. Abe Shinzo said that.

[@lifeinjapan2306]

gainsbourg Fukushima is one of the largest prefectures in Japan. Radioactive area is around the east coast as you've seen in the video. Damn sure the rice and food won't grow near that area though..

[@user-xk8jf8wf1d]

@@lifeinjapan2306 well i've seen the photo of people harvesting wearing protection suits next to pile of radioactive soil bag. And also the cow riping the bag of radioactive soil. Plus read the report from GreenPeace saying Fukushima is not safe enough.

[@lifeinjapan2306]

If that's the case its so fucked up then

[@lifeinjapan2306]

I live in Sendai and have experienced the 2011 Earthquake and tsunami though, been thinking about that Fukushima matter and the food that comes from there makes me worried.

[@jorteicedwardk7532]

gainsbourg That's horrible

[@ares106]

5:01 This part made me really sad :(

[@iroekyjHD]

ares106 literally nobody cares

[@ares106]

iroeky I do care and I'm not nobody.

[@iroekyjHD]

ares106 right you're just a fucking loser.

[@ares106]

iroeky well.... you are fat iroeky

[@obsoleteoptics]

iroeky That's the problem, apathy. You cared enough to comment, though.

[@vongsakra253919]

the government people should return first to stand the test of radioactives before telling people that it's safe.

[@sergeybebenin]

you'd think after 25 years since USSR death journalists would finally learn that Chernobyl is in Ukraine (used to be Ukrainian Socialist Republic) and NOT Russians but rather Soviets were dealing with initial cleanup, etc.

[@psyantologist]

No, no, no, no. It's much better to keep blaming Russia for whatever happens in Ukraine. Much better! Same for blaming Russia for whatever goes wrong in the US. Or Syria for that matter. It works! Every time!

[@sergeybebenin]

Wont Tell Of course it's Russian fault for what's happening in Ukraine. It's a fact that Russian army is occupying part of Ukraine and supplying local terrorists with weapons. Russia is also bombing Syria, it's a fact. US? It's stupid to give Russia any credit for Trump's win... He'd win regardless of leaks. So no, don't blame Russia for everything. I'm pretty sure the reporter didn't mean to play and blame games... Just made an uneducated assumption/association.

[@psyantologist]

Sergey Bebenin The situation in Ukraine is a result of a coup, facilitated by the west. The current government of Ukraine was openly hostile in rhetorics towards Russian-speaking Ukrainians. The trade treaties offered to the pre-coup Ukrainian government would have hurt Ukraine in oder to hurt the Russian economy more, so the government refusing these had to go. Cutting off Russia from it's naval ports was unacceptable for them - and the west knew that very well. It's one provocation after the other and Russia gets blamed for responding. There's no good sides there, anywhere, unless we also count the politically unrepresented civilians who just want to live in peace with all their neighbors. Five years of bombing Syria with NATO airplanes and then hardly a year of Russian bombardments, a year that marked the end of ISIS' successes, and suddenly bombs are bad because they kill the "moderate rebels" which even the west considers "terrorists" once they step over the borders of Syria into a different county - but while they're in Syria, they're considered to be fighting _the good fight_, even if they side with al Nusra front and the like and often are virtually indistinguishable from them in ideology. The hypocrisy of the media is appalling. The US, its European, Turkish and Middle Eastern/Arabic allies bombed their fair share of hospitals, bridges and civilians and it's their support of the "moderates" that keeps the suffering going. Assad is a dictator and dissidents and dissident suspects get imprisoned and tortured. But that's been the case for the better part of a century, quite a lot of the time under French supervision. Nothing new here. All that is new are plans for gas pipelines.

[@sergeybebenin]

Wont Tell​​​​ I stopped reading your nonsense about Ukraine after few sentences. You have no clue and you are just repeating Russian propaganda BS. I'm originality from Ukraine, have a ton of connections, relatives and friends there. Who said NATO/US bombings are "good"? Once again you immediately, by default, assume typical Russian propaganda position. Just because US and NATO commit horrible bombings doesn't mean it's OK for Russia to do the same. I also don't really remember an a totally destroyed city like Allepo by NATO.... But it's kinda irrelevant anyway because measuring who bombed more is silly

[@sergeybebenin]

Wont Tell LMAO! You are so clueless! You think you know facts? You are like a 5 year old child talking about quantum physics. It really is hilarious to hear someone clueless talking about my country. So clear where you get your BS propaganda. My first language is Russian and my mother's family is all in currently occupied Ukrainian East. My direct family is from Kiev. NEVER has there ever been a case where speaking Russian or being Russian was even brought up as a tension point. So please, just stop with your uneducated BS, on?

[@anonymouscommenter7689]

It's safe if everything goes as planned. And mind you, that's a big motherfuckin if.

[@expertexcavatinginc]

It's not safe. Even in the best case scenario there's tons of waste.

[@anonymouscommenter7689]

@@expertexcavatinginc That's sarcasm broheim.

[@johnwattie1786]

There using $100AUD 3M respirators and I paid $550AUD EXC FILTERS for my full face respirator. The filters also dont last long on the 3M respirators need a change over frequently. So maybe this can be a problem, workers may not realize how often the filters need changing.

[@rkan2]

I agree. Also with the respirators the workers in this video seemed to be using would be letting stuff in for sure since they are not positive pressure (pressurized, e.g air can) systems, thus allowing you to ingest the actual nasty stuff. I can imagine raking leaves would lift up a really nice dust cloud of stuff with alpha-emitters, which are not to be breathed.. I'd have no problem working close to the reactor with proper protection meaning no inhaled particles, even if a dosimeter on me would read higher than the 20mSv...

[@johnwattie1786]

Yes this is all true. But also though I don't think those filters are above P2. I most cases anything thats is P2 or lower cannot sufficiently filter radioactive particles from the air. I bought mine because I explore abandon buildings and so fourth but I've done my research. And hello from Australia

[@seandavidr]

A lot of the workers were just wearing dust masks. I wouldn't do that work without an SCBA or charcoal gas mask for sure. It's ingesting the contamination that's going to kill them.

[@jeffkardosjr.3825]

@@rkan2 The full face respirators are fine. They just need to be tight enough.

[@blazzing_fury2425]

Stories like these are why I'm subscribed

[@AintPopular]

loved the content vice keep it up.

[@richardkujur]

That's fine, but tell me how does an RBMK reactor explodes?

[@shadyk666]

It´s not possible.

[@yeetmanyeet1146]

Martin Šimák nice reference

[@richardkujur]

@@shadyk666 You are delusional comrade.

[@frankpinmtl]

I am not prepared to offer an explanation on that, right now

[@richardkujur]

It's only 3.6 rongeton

[@Reneroxy]

This is the first time a vice video made me cry...the interview with the sick ex-cleanup worker made me really emotional

[@justanotherhappyhumanist8832]

He seemed really sweet. I hope he's okay.

[@ma_kal]

@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832 he has stage 3 cancer. He is far from ok

[@LaviniaDeMortalium]

Situations like this are why I don't understand when people don't think we need robots to do some of our work. It's _wrong_ and indescribably upsetting to see people - who are volunteering their time for this work - are dying from this exposure. And not in a long-term way, but within _months_ .

[@vitalstatistix8442]

Well robots aren't advanced enough as of today to do such work. But yea i think we will see a robotic revolution soon that might possibly be bigger than the industrial revolution.

[@LaviniaDeMortalium]

I agree that we're not there yet. I wish we were, but I think the technology is fairly close.

[@LaviniaDeMortalium]

_Jesus_ . This is heartbreaking. It's takes them _two years_ to make a machine that's crippled in no time?

[@cindys9491]

Lavinia de Mortalium they tried using robots to clean off the highly radioactive material on the roof of Chernobyl reactor too. Robots all malfunctioned so USSR sent in people. They called themselves "bio-robots."

[@Skullkan6]

In japan, older people have been choosing to go so younger people don't have to, given that they've already lived their lives and would rather young people not have to deal with their generation's fuckups. (US could learn from this)

[@NoLeadsEnt]

weed is illegal but radiation is a o.k ;)

[@MACNTOSFAM]

NoLeads lol. There's also radiation in weed. If you're talking Nuclear radiation, then i hope you're not inhaling alpha particles.

[@XxCorvette1xX]

Clyde Macasero wow, someone took grade 11 physics

[@NoLeadsEnt]

Clyde Macasero if i have to differentiate which radiation im speaking of.. your having a v-8 moment

[@aha3644]

I'm pretty sure the uses of weed vastly differ from the use of nuclear radiation.

[@NoLeadsEnt]

lol you know ! if you want to break it down we can state that all atoms have a radiant measure to scale, of the nano world. so we ourselves are radiant ones lol. walter russel is someone you should look into if you like physics and perhaps a table of elements brought deeper into a wave / frequencies chart. real genius.. and hey hes only the founder of two of the elements on our current consensus charts. ;) need more and thirst for clues. i left them all in my songs lol ("dreams" is on topic for this one)

[@samgeorge4798]

five years already

[@okcurrr5573]

Sam George time flies, I remember watching the news that was reporting on this disaster

[@inouelenhatduy]

the tsunami are way wort than this so many people die from that huge tsunami ( it will be in top 5 biggest tsunami ) i remember coming back from school hearing NHK show earth quake then warning of tsunami , the reporter reading the perfecture and i still remember see read fukushima then the nuclear problem but well in 5 more year fukushima will be clean 2017 is abit to early

[@gavinbeacom3251]

@Pat C aha

[@maxi4492]

Just like it was last month, and it's been seven years.

[@notoicangi5347]

Who's gonna clean up the Pacific Ocean is another question?

[@redenginner]

Crim Sin The radioactive particles are already so diluted its a non issue. If anything you should be worried more about all the radioactive water created by all the US’s nuclear testing.

[@baihuiye]

@@redenginner Even if it is diluted, it will accumulate in animals on higher food chain, amd if we eat those animals (fishes forexample), we are basically eating poisoned food

[@susanb4816]

it doesn't take hundreds of years, it takes hundreds of thousands of years. keep reading, narrator

[@samgeorge4798]

Susan B it takes hundreds of thousands for the nuclear material to deteriorate but exposed material dose not have that long of a half life

[@EzioAuditoreDaFirenze99]

well actually the radiation emmited was way lower than say the radiation typically found in radioactive waste which would take about 10,000 years to be safe. There's something called a 'half-life' meaning that's how much time these particular molecules take to reduce their radiation output by half. So lets assume that substance a and b were both identical but i had 1,000,000 times more of substance a. It would thus take substace a 20 times longer to fall within safe levels. The radiation at fukishima was spread over a large area and very little was actually ejected in the explosions whereas radioactive waste is contained in one space in high quantities. Do you see how the fukishima radiation could potentially disperse in a few decades whereas radioactive waste would take millenia? Even if they are the same substance? Its an easy mistake to make, but I'm telling you, in 50 years, fukishima will be at safe levels of radiation.

[@KillinWithKi11Roy]

Knowledge.

[@EzioAuditoreDaFirenze99]

BobyBoudin SCIENCE!

[@arconte2100]

The truth is Fukushima is already safer than many modern cities. The small increase in cancer risk is lower than many other health risks people experience such as air pollution. www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35761136

[@BadAssBlackOverlord]

They need to make an Anime adaptation of this.

[@jonatasnogueira7525]

BadAssBlackOverlord Try the recent Godzilla movie

[@samgeorge4798]

Jonatas Nogueira plus rep

[@mariorossi9655]

There's a similar anime you might like. It's called "Tokyo Magnitude 9.0". It's quite good actually.

[@GameHEADtime]

Yes but the plot has to have radiation souls like bleach or something weird not boring like bleach though

[@mercibeau]

BadAssBlackOverlord YESSSS

[@Levi-em6ym]

If anyone can do it, the Japanese will. They are the most industrious people in the world. Cheering for their success, a vaunting task.

[@chris-id6vk]

that title goes to the Germans. the Japanese are the most skilled at mindlessly following specifications and avoiding serious issues (Fukushima, colonial past, racism).

[@justmayonnaise]

@Tatsujiro Kurogane Somewhat related, but any sort of major construction in Toronto is painfully slow. My friend works as a civil engineer overseeing some of the work from construction companies and half the time they're just sitting.

[@stfuplsok]

@Tatsujiro Kurogane *Usain

[@stfuplsok]

Levi *daunting

[@posterizedz]

@Tatsujiro Kurogane Doesn't matter if a only less than a handful of PM's apologized, if many after including Abe and the majority of his cabinet members publicly deny many wrong doings during Japanese colonial era. In fact, many actually believe colonization of WWII was a liberation effort benefitting Asia.

[@Twixas100]

It wasn't a meltdown in Chernobyl, it was an explosion.

[@lunatic_3521]

5:08 his smyle is under my top 10 Ive ever seen hes so wholesome:D

[@greenleafycabbage8715]

Please give us an update. Thank you

[@dre3k78]

Wonder what they do with all the contaminated foliage they have put in those bags? Not to mention all the soil and water as well....?

[@inouelenhatduy]

soil are keep in those bags and it will be clean by some kind of way that i forgot but nhk talk about it few month or last year but it will take time anyway they already start cleaning soil ( in the bag ) but it will take abit of time to clean all the soil ( bags )

[@chuckschenck3045]

Their was a report of chimneys popping up among.the bags from Arial photograph

[@stfuplsok]

@@chuckschenck3045 *There

[@chuckschenck3045]

Guess they lost radio contact with the Japanese whaling fleet. I don't think their hunting whales.

[@inoktube]

I don't trust 2020 tokyo olympic

[@gennarogattuso8989]

If there is someone who insist fukushima food is safe, Make them eat that food. I swear that they never intake the food that they insist safe.. food from fukushima is contaminated from radioactive

[@planetkc]

New game: *Stalker: Boku no Hentai Octopus*

[@skullgamer0036]

Dude just don't !

[@planetkc]

the japanese can never quench their fantasies

[@krieglietzkohl4750]

Sidorovich Senpai the Birth pills dealer

[@maxi4492]

That city is cleaner than my room...

[@stfuplsok]

*than

[@hazebro2044]

1:29 stay strong traffic light

[@i.gmasseystunts5627]

there also should be a part two of this on the damage to the ocean

[@ikrarramadhan2451]

Chernobyl season 2 ?

[@FSXNOOB]

I hope they are joking? You can't clean up nuce-waste like that, this is just cleaning up the bottom part of it, 5% of the problem :-/

[@Austeja608]

Only one without feeling fear can build nuclear reactor in earthquace zone

[@CatsMeowPaw]

That moss registered up to 1.6uSv/hr. Walking around Pripyat, it was no problem finding small clumps of moss growing today that returned 15uSv/hr, and that's after a full half life of cesium and strontium. As bad as Fukushima is, people must keep it in perspective.

[@Mizutorik]

Can we get an update on this story?

[@montyjayak]

Laughing oncologist, telling somebody hes gonna die smiling!!

[@MrA16R]

They really keep the positivity and optimism uh

[@trishaduhh5050]

wanted to smack his face so hard so he can rub off his smile off of his face

[@montyjayak]

Gelix Althea Daulong lol, do you want him to tell him, crying.

[@trishaduhh5050]

@@montyjayak nahh. just don't smile, i guess? maybe someone recording them is a factor too as to why he's smiling or whatever

[@Cherry-bq4oh]

If I was sick I'd want my doctor to be friendly, rather than all serious and sad.

[@darrelclark6232]

They didnt abandon chernobyl 30 years ago reactor 1 and 2 still went on till the year 2000

[@roadrage9191]

Yep, and the fallout was a bit more severe at chernobyl. Not all nuclear disasters are created equal lol. These reactors in Japan had a meltdown too, and you can argue more severe as it were 3 meltdowns, but it was not a reactor explosion hence less severe release into the open. Levels of radiations are less in Japan than they were in Pripyat.

[@normieloser6969]

@@roadrage9191 The radiation around the plant in Fukushima is less then the background radiation of many popular places. (Background radiation = normal one which comes from very many things around you, also the sun)

[@jarskil8862]

Wait what? Cherobyl was in use till 2000? How?

[@whybother4156]

Jarski l because only one reactor was effected the rest were apparently fine so they carried on using them I’m going to assume the country would of been under powered with out the use of them

[@jarskil8862]

@@whybother4156 Must been really safe working conditions 😅

[@chefboy-ar-d6312]

I'm in love with this journalist💗💗😉

[@user-hn5vr7nt9d]

Imagine how badly the ocean life was affected. I feel like the government is trying to decrease the population, but unwilling to admit anything is wrong.

[@user-hn5vr7nt9d]

@@Smurfzy >>> By saying the highly contaminated areas are safe to live in.

[@coolerking7427]

There are nuclear power plants that can be built that is a lot less deadly. But, greedy companies do not want to invest in them.

[@roydellago]

I feel so sorry for that man. Hopefully he gets better and lives a happy life.

[@obsoleteoptics]

So what about the sea water they've been pumping into Daiichi? What's that done to the ocean life nearby and in the northern Pacific as a whole?

[@chefgiovanni]

Vice news is real news. Thank you.

[@nusavandenboogaart4971]

Fact, only one person died because of radiation in Fukushima, it was an worker that measured the radiation the day after the disaster. He got sick and died 2 days later in an hospital...

[@silenceisgolden3238]

Abu Hajaar rolled through Fukushima recently and has single handedly absorbed all the radioative gamma radiation.

[@TheIndogamer]

If that happened, it would be the most unexpected Vice respondent crossover.

[@vertie2090]

Abu Hajaar for the president Just don't roast us too :D

[@RNA0ROGER]

It will take about 60 years for the radiation to go away entirely.

[@internetkumquat4542]

My teeth hit the floor when it was presumed some people will be returning to homes in sight of a recently melted down reactor. We'll just have another Pripyat at this rate.

[@Jcsimmer11]

how bout a piece on the effect fukashima has had and continues to have on the pacific ocean? what is the Japanese government doing about that?

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

Don't worry about it.

[@Twentycent911]

French power plants dome could resist to the tsunami. It is expensive but not as much as 180 billions

[@med6186]

I don't trust French

[@bored588]

so, reactor 5 was built up, off the ground, why wasnt reactor 1-4 ? if they were they might not have flooded causing the backup generators to shut down, causing the cores to overheat due to pumps not running.

[@therealbobcat]

1:10 Well... at least the coke machine is still there

[@iroekyjHD]

*"but...Japan fixed that sink hole in two weeks tho"*

[@proudamerican9045]

2020 Tokyo Olympics - No thanks!

[@Rob-vy6zx]

In the US new cancer incidence rate is 454.8 per 100,000 for men per year. This means that if you have 9,000 workers at least 4 of them would be diagnosed with cancer per year.

[@pinpoint11]

What is the name of the host of this video?

[@buddha6955]

cover the site with mushrooms...people will move in next year

[@M.T....]

Fusion is the future.

[@InfantTree]

0:15 the soviet union didnt abandon the nuclear reactor ever. there are still people working there to keep the other 3 reactors cooled

[@kokafizix7905]

i bet a nuclear melt down sounds like a excision dub step song on 20 grand speakers

[@slovokia]

VICE would do well to consult with some scientists who understand radiation and it's effects on the human body. This reporter was way out of her depth on the subject. One obvious comparison to make is with areas with high naturally occuring radiation levels e.g. Ramsar Iran etc

[@samgeorge4798]

slovokia yes but people are adapted to whare they are born

[@Sovietskikh]

Well, that's VICE for you. They don't think you need scientifically literate journalists to report on science stories.

[@tengkualiff]

@@Sovietskikh cost effective option is to send the same person to do all the interviews anyways. Its not easy to plan and produce almost 8mins of content.

[@A_D_I_D_A_S]

I’m Japanese. And I live in japan’s Kanagawa prefecture. Anyway thanks to visit and Your braveful report about Fukushima. Because i don’t believe Fukushima. But I have Born and raised in Fukushima’s friend. He said always 「My country is already safe!!You should eat fresh Fukushima’s fruits or meat!You will get healthy☺️✨」 Although he live in now Saitama prefecture near the Tokyo😨Not Fukushima. So my friends and Fukushima’s people and Japan TV program too i can’t believe. However thank you so much your report.

[@katja904]

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[@mashucha]

I got a vice ad, while watching vice

[@doreeneclose6295]

is the moss not the most effective clean up system? it is my understanding that there are many plants which are absorbing and cleaning this radiation. strip it all away so soon and we create a waste land unable to heal.

[@ZAR556]

Time to try Renewable Energy sources, i presume

[@RileyWileyTomato]

Zavid Al Rasyid renewable energy is too expensive and inefficient

[@Sr68720]

@@RileyWileyTomato you go live in Chernobyl and say that.

[@RileyWileyTomato]

Sr68720 just look up statistic

[@mariorico440]

The Japanese should have being prepared for this disaster to come a long time ego because they are sitting in the epicenter of the earthquake. Just like they improved the structure of the buildings and homes same to nuclear power plants too.

[@satriorama4118]

Who said they didn't? The plant was built to withstand 8+ sr earthquake. They also built sea walls to protect the plant from tsunami. You know how strong 2011 earthquake? 9+ sr. The biggest earthquake Japan ever see. Meteorologist even said earthquake this big only come once every thousand year. The plant survive the earthquake but the sea wall couldn't able to stop the water and flooding generator room resulting in stopping reactor cooler. If not for the tsunami, there won't be any fukushima disaster

[@uvnok]

Futaba means shinchan house was there 🤣

[@twigglykevin]

at 1:00 theyre wearing p100 filters, dont think they do much for radiation,pretty sure its the gas filter cartridges that can be used for radiation...ill have to double check the paperwork that comes with them that lists the different filters and what theyre used for.

[@pinesy9452]

This woman's s note is triggering my OCD.

[@SuperAsianboy95]

Honestly this makes me so angry and sad..... Japans Atom/Energy Lobby is one of the most influencial force and of course they will do all they can to make people believe atom power is safe. But lying to their people and making citizens suffer for their efforts to work/do something for their country is just horrible. I mean damn, first you don't take care of your damn reactors and run down power plants. Then after the disaster Tepco fist denies all the of it and the government does not making the scale of the problem known. Now they pretend it's save after clearing a few metres of soil and brushing the houses and streets that are left?! Are you kidding me?! 1 wind blow and the conaminated air takes and spreads contaminated dust and earth particles and spreads them again duh! It's just really sad to see a country and culture that has one of the biggest bonds between humans and nature do this shit.......

[@TheOwenMajor]

It is interesting that nature lovers hate the one technology that could stop the destruction of nature. Never where a logical group to begin with I guess.

[@SuperAsianboy95]

Owen Major lul yeah it could if there wasnt nuclear waste and nuclear meltdown desasters....

[@TheOwenMajor]

Sam N. Name(without googling) some major nuclear accidents.

[@ericjohnson6158]

I hope you're as critical of the United States Government (both parties and corporations included) for their handling of every disaster EVER. Your description sounds like what has happened at every U.S. Superfund Site in the country. Almost 1,000 them and counting.........tick tock....

[@vladi420]

what is the first???

[@companymen42]

Shinzo Abe: "The radiation at Fukashima is only 3.6 Rontgen, I'm told it's the equivalent of a chest xray. Perfectly safe to move in..."

[@klardfarkus3891]

How do you determine the larger of two very diferent disasters. The Chernobyl explosion spread a lot of radioactivity over a large area but was basically a short duration release. Fukushima released little airborne and onland radiation. But involves many times more radioactive material bing released into the ocean that will continue virtually forever.

[@maerdre568]

Little is mentioned about the radioactive pollutants released into the Pacific Ocean, which will affect the whole world.

[@MomoMochi]

How could it be safe to be anywhere near there only 6 years after? I don't even think Hazmats would protect you from the exposure...

[@Docstantinople]

Is it a bad idea to build nuclear reactors under large man made body of water? I mean everytime I hear about a nuclear reactor failing its due to overheating.

[@firstdrifter]

boycott Tokyo Olympic game !!!!

[@invertedv12powerhouse77]

Doesn't Japan have some old volcanoes on their land, Geothermal energy is a good thing to have

[@TrafferGaming]

Inverted V12 Powerhouse true, Japan should use geothermal energy but the peoeple are agianst this idea.

[@7yearsryugami169]

but they have regular earthquakes making it not safe for long term plan.

[@invertedv12powerhouse77]

***** Nothing is safe in the long term with all the disasters on that damn island. What's the best solution then? Solar power and windmills? Windmills will fall too. Panels will break.

[@Krystalmyth]

The existence of islands like Japan are demonstrative of geographic chaos. There's no way you can truly even imagine it being there hundreds of years from now unchanged. Its naive to even think this.

[@devonrusinek5807]

@@invertedv12powerhouse77 Tidal power

[@simonthomas5367]

Excellent report Isobelle. Comprehensive and with fascinating access to the site. Will you ever do a follow-up to the Ocean Cleanup project? I hear they're having some problems. What about companies like 4Ocean? Are they really having an impact or are we giving money for nothing? Now some Asian countries are rejecting plastic waste from the West, could be a good story... Thx for your input.

[@T.B.Y.S.]

Good ol' days Vice.

[@quantumeseboy]

Asian approach to problems seems to usually be cover up and denial :( Japanese government's handling of Fukushima disaster is disastrous itself. Korea with it's nuclear plants along its coast line is a ticking time bomb.

[@inouelenhatduy]

the more ticking bomb is north korea nuclear weapon one some one threat kịm jong un power or regime kim jong un will launch nuke + chemical weapon attack on south korea and japan

[@tengkualiff]

Pretty sure all govts do that regardless. Have you seen how controversial US and British governments are?

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

South Korea doesn't get Tsunamis or earthquakes like Japan. Be more worried about NK using shitty Soviet technology to make bombs

[@knowthings489]

I am watching this after 8 years

[@RANDOM-jpg93]

Whats the name of the reporter?

[@nosociallifeman2227]

I was there near Tokyo when the reactor in Fukushima went off. There was a large storm soon after in the air and it was raining hard and it was very windy. But since I left japan the country has been doing and trying its best to clean up this mistake. I mean these streets are cleaner then some of the city’s here in the states 😅😂.