Rebuilding Life After The 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster | One Day That Changed Asia | Full Episode

Over eight years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in Japan. Today the country is in the midst of an unprecedented project - decontaminating and repopulating towns and villages polluted by radioactive elements.
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[@Gigaboojones]

How does this not have more views... great production.

[@OMGemgc]

Maybe because this is also in Netflix? So people might already recognize this one that is in Netflix. But still I agree with you, it is better if more people will watch this.

[@damienwong3250]

really good work

[@lv3184]

8:22 That map is completely wrong. It shows an evacuation zone that spreads over hundreds of kilometers way beyond Fukushima prefecture into neighbouring Miyagi and Yamagata prefecture when in reality, the evacuation zone extends for about 30 km in a northwesternly direction and is about 10 km wide. The actual evacuation zone is well over 10 times smaller than the one depicted here. Also, at 15:26 the measurement units are completely mixed up. The lady clearly said that she measured average levels of about 1.3 µSv (microsievert) per hour but the subtitles state that she measured 1.3 mSv (millisievert). 1.3 mSv would equal 1300 µSv, which would be a very high level of radiation. Keep in mind that the level of exposure at which the Japanese government deems an area to be unsafe for habitation is 20 mSv (20'000 µSv) PER YEAR.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

Actually no one should have been evacuated in the first place: medium.com/generation-atomic/for-the-first-time-world-learns-truth-about-risk-of-nuclear-6b7e97d435df

[@fitrox4921]

@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk can u please explain why no one should have been evacuated?

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

@@fitrox4921 I just did.

[@fitrox4921]

@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Well that's on me. I'm to lazy to read debunk theorys.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

@@fitrox4921 I showed you science. Good luck wallowing in your fear porn.

[@Fiona-sg9wh]

These documentaries are so important and need to be told. IT amazes me that people who built nuclear power plants couldn't foresee this. I saw it before an accident happened. I thought how stupid are people to build this for power. It is one natural disaster away from a nuclear meltdown. I am just an ICU nurse and I clearly saw it and it scared me and still does. Not for me but for the many generations of life after I leave. This is a living planet and we had no right to build such a huge potential for enormous disaster.

[@mrkipling2201]

Is this something that could be considered for somewhere like Pripyat?? And the wider area around Chernobyl?? Genuine question. I’m not an expert on the subject so I wonder if anyone with more knowledge would know if it is??

[@Ranger629]

I mean, technically had the Japanese government not tried to cover up the atomic bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at 12:00 he would have known how scary radiation is and the danger that came long with radiation poisoning, thyroid cancer and what are the necessary precaution. Then again, Chernobyl was a world-known issue I'm surprised that no one in Fukushima had researched about the devastating result of that.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

But no one died from Fukushima radiation. No increases in cancers either. And even despite Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima, the Japanese still have the longest life expectancy on the planet.

[@KlausBahnhof]

@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Lies. www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/05/japan-admits-that-fukushima-worker-died-from-radiation

[@jtr789310]

Everything under control in Fukushima just don’t pick the flowers eat the food grown in the area. Little kids won’t feel anything ,till they grow up and wanting kids of there own . It safe because government know best even though you don’t see them living there. Just get a Daruma lucky charm and everything Ok. When you start having problems years from now they say it normal and have new lies to tell you.

[@zolikoff]

About time they return and rebuild a perfectly usable area that they abandoned due to irrational fear and nothing else. There is lots of tsunami damage to repair. Area was never "dangerous" from a radiological perspective, but people tend to be idiots about topics they dont understand.

[@mangaartist1995]

zolikoff To be fair, nobody still fully understand what the radiation are (thanks to the government keeping their mouths shut) and what it can do. Better safe than sorry.

[@zolikoff]

Anyone with a $30 detector can measure the open air levels. They are not dangerous. You see journalists do it all the time, they always exclaim that it's "higher than normal" so it is implied to be dangerous, but those journalists are exposed to more radiation on their flight over to Japan. Flying isn't dangerous either (well, not radiologically, I mean). It takes very high radiation levels for actual health effects to develop. This is very well documented. Living in a higher than average radioactive background area has no health risks. Many such populated areas with naturally high radiation exist - with no health impacts. Better safe than sorry can't be applied here. The forced evacuation of this area caused around 2000 premature deaths and brought permanent life pain to tens of thousands. The needless halt of Japan's nuclear reactors since 2011 has also caused thousands of premature deaths from air pollution (because electricity was provided by coal and gas instead). These measures to be "better safe than sorry" have led to thousands of deaths - there would've been no deaths if the measures hadn't been taken.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

@@zolikoff Not only that, new studies show no one in Japan should have been evacuated in the first place: medium.com/generation-atomic/for-the-first-time-world-learns-truth-about-risk-of-nuclear-6b7e97d435df

[@avail1.]

@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk new

[@CatherinePuce]

They did not abandon it out of not reason at all. After the earthquake and the tsunami, the era was not a good place to stay. This houses must be crawling with moulds and neglect probably make them expensive to return there. It can not be from a radiological perspective but if you look at the job perspectives I would run away from this place too. More people are dying that there are birth in Japan for years now. So there is not a lack of place to leave. For all it worth I would let this place abandoned. Most people have found new jobs and new places to live.

[@jerrystaana3891]

I think the japs handled nuc energy carefully in the middle of the city still zero deaths unlike the Russians well it's just my opinion