Returning to Fukushima after the disaster (2016) | Foreign Correspondent

Mark Willacy travels to radiation-poisoned Fukushima to uncover startling new evidence about the dangers that still lurk there and the near insurmountable task of cleaning it up.
It’s like a postcard of rural Japan... lush forests, waterfalls and bubbling streams; quaint villages where pink cherry blossoms festoon the streets.
But there’s a grotesqueness here. Houses which rang with the sounds of life and laughter are being swallowed by weeds and vines; inside they are choked by cobwebs and dust.
This is the countryside of Fukushima. Five years after the nuclear meltdown, it remains full of radiation, and virtually empty of people.
In the beginning I felt extremely lonely. But now I’m used to it - Naoto Matsumura, A farmer who stayed put to care for abandoned animals - and who is described as Japan’s most contaminated person.
In contrast the stricken Fukushima plant is thronging with activity. About 6500 courageous workers toil to contain the radiation but, as former Japan Correspondent Mark Willacy reports, it could scarcely be said that they are winning.
Willacy was one of the first journalists on the scene after the double headed tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011, and has reported on it extensively since. Now he has been invited on a tour of the plant courtesy of the operator TEPCO.
What Willacy discovers is truly unsettling.
The task of neutralising and retrieving hundreds of tonnes of melted nuclear fuel turns out to be far greater than previously thought. So too might be the eventual cost, as well as the time that will be required to remedy the site -that is, if it can ever be fully remedied.
There’s no playbook - they’re making it up as they go along - former US chief nuclear watchdog Gregory Jaczko
Mark Willacy interviews Naoto Kan, Japan’s Prime Minister at the time of the crisis. He is a convert to the anti-nuclear cause and - along with Gregory Jaczko - a sceptic about whether the clean-up will succeed.
There was a risk that half or all of Japan could have been destroyed. So in a way the accident took us to the brink of destruction - Naoto Kan
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[@leiay6463]

It would be nice to have an updated documentary about this. A lot must have changed in these years.

[@MoparAdventure]

IT HAS ONLY GOTTEN WORSE THEY'RE BURNING CONTAMINATED LAND IN OPEN AIR FOR US TO INHALE THE JET STREAM WILL BRING IT TO US. I FEAR FOR MY CHILDREN.

[@airsickspace9272]

T HEAT the thing is is that the contaminated air has to go over the ocean and deal with many conditions that make it harder to reach the US. Plus the jet stream is not the only current of air there’s all sorts of pressure changes creating wind, so it’s very complicated

[@MoparAdventure]

@@airsickspace9272 not very complicated we know chernobyl circled the globe 7 times and Fukushima was worse. We really arent that far away. Why else did exposure baselines get reset across the USA acceptable limits increased all radnet monitors went down and obama went to the southern hemisphere.

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

@@MoparAdventure The entire west coast - from Mexico to Canada - is contaminated from Fukushima. Hawai'i is completely irradiated.

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

Nothing has changed; the situation only gets worse...

[@TheCornellJunkie]

A Tsunami and a Nuclear Fallout.... due to a major earthquake....FYI for those wondering what happened in Fukushima 7 years ago.... my heart goes out to the Father that lost his whole family... just 1 of the various heartbreaking stories.....

[@theflip650]

CornellJunkie no offense, but I think people watching are aware, I hope anyway

[@RejectedInch]

@@theflip650 i doubt such awareness. Go check the 5G corona conspirators and see how deep is the abyss of human idiotic ignorance. 3 major incidents involving nuclear power and yet people keep rambling that is a safe and CLEAN energy source. Neither safe or clean.

[@Bob31415]

@@RejectedInch You are absolutely correct.

[@Bob31415]

Your post is a year old and you reference what happened in Fukushima "7 years ago". The disaster happened in 2011, nine years before your comment.

[@TheCornellJunkie]

@@Bob31415 Thank you 🙏🏻 Apologies for the error

[@30xi84]

Deeply disturbed how yesterday the Japanese Minister for Environment admitted that it will be inevitable that they will need to release huge quantities of contaminated water into the ocean. This is ridiculous and sketchy considering Tokyo 2020 Olympics are just around the corner....

[@theflip650]

Ged H yeah , “ sketchy” is a word you could use. Insanity is another one

[@camshaftshaft2711]

They have been dumping during every big storm they have for years if they didn’t dump it there would be no space in Japan due to radioactive water tanks ! So sad

[@emorrow6441]

The water they're dumping has been treated. The only radiation in it is tritium which is in sea water anyways and there is no known lethal dose of tritium in humans. It's also an incredibly weak particle that has a tremendously small half life in fish and sea living creatures. Educate yourself before you post things please.

[@yumiwatanabe440]

there will be no olimpics in 2020! how would they do it of half of countries already in stop list because of chinese wuhan flu ?

[@zolikoff]

The tritium concentration in the water to be released is several times lower than the acceptable drinking water standards for tritium in Japan. A Japanese official was actually challenged to drink some of it not long after the accident and he did drink a glass during a public forum. No idea why they even stockpiled the water in the first place, should've just discharged it on the go all along. Nuclear industry regulations are just too damn crazy.

[@mannnameloser9029]

The sentence "Fukushima is totally safe and under control" is not really logical. Since more than 33 years have passed after the Chernobyl accident, it still remains as a dangerous place. Also it will remain as a dangerous place for more than a hundred year. But in case of Fukushima, it is just 8 years and it is even less than 25% of time pass comparing to Chernobyl. It is totally unlogical.

[@fatherandie]

Bomber Explosive I mean, fukushima had much better “aftercare” than chernobyl by far. so it wouldn’t be false to say they’re doing better at this stage

[@VividReads]

What happened in Chernobyl was so much worse because the reactor exploded. There was a massive whole that was emitting radiation. For three days people were trying to fill it up to diminish the amount of radiation that was released into the world. Every person who went to help died a week later because of how much radiation they were exposed to. Chernobyl shows how people should pay more attention. It was a human mistake that could have been easily prevented if there was better communication. Fukushima was also due to human error. The lesson is not to build the cooling system on a tsunami prone coast.

[@VividReads]

@James Davis you're making sound as if hundreds of kilometres of land wasn't made inhabitable in Ukraine and Belarus. That land was also of agricultural importance. Also so many people there have died and continue dying. All the children in cities that are remotely close to the radiation zone suffer from thyroidism and a bunch of other genetic complications. So many people there continue to die from cancer due to radiation from Chernobyl. Both accidents were terrible. But the radiotion at Fukushima will clear out sooner than the one at Chernobyl simply because of the amounts that were emitted. Some villages close to Fukushima are open for visitors and can be inhabited 9 years later. With Chernobyl it took 30 years for people to be allowed to enter.

[@aleksifrmdao]

You know only the actual powerplant is dangerous and some of the dirt but its not even that dangerous and also fukushima was a smaller accident than chernobyl also SOME PEOPLE LIVE IN THE ZONE IN UKRAINE OR BELRUS

[@TheEarthHistorysConfusing]

Danni Ginkova : Chernobyl goes deep as the us government knew a woop pecking sound was being admitted from this area and knew it was a secret soviets base that was sending/receiving messages from all over the world. Some say the workers were paid off to shut down the power plant so they could find the base. They did a similar test before, but there wasn’t as much fuel rods in the core .

[@autofabb752]

Hope he finds his daughter one day, so he may have peace ❤️🕊

[@suncica83]

On his fb someone wrote this. It's from 2016. :'( 人生は何があるか分らないし、生と死はいつも隣り合わせであることを実感することがある。私は9.11の時、ニューヨークから一日ちがいで一時帰国していて、3.11の時はニューヨークに旅立とうとしていて、成田空港で被災した。そんなことがあって、福島の松村さんを取材することになったのも不思議な縁だと思っていた。私の取材後、日本在住のベルギー人の監督が松村さんの取材に来られているのは聞いていた。その彼がたまたま編集で帰国していたベルギーでテロにあって亡くなったことを聞いて、ショックを受けた。本当に生と死は表裏一体であることを感じた。自分もその間近にいた経験を何度かしたので、尚更そう思った。人の生は儚く、そして尊いものであることを実感した。その彼の作品が遺族の手によって完成したと聞き、本当によかった。 Life is full of unexpected turn of events, and you realize that life and death are two sides of the same coin. I experienced that first hand during 9.11 when I happened to come back to Japan a day before the tragic event. On the day of 3.11, I was on my way to NYC and stranded at Narita Airport. So I felt strange connection to 松村 直登 (Naoto Matsumura) when I started to make a film about him. I heard about the Belgian filmmaker based in Japan, making a film about Naoto few years after mine. I was really shocked to hear that he died in the terrorist attack in Belgium during his temporary visit. I felt that it could have happened to me or anyone, if timing coincided. I truly felt the fragility and preciousness of our lives. So I am very relieved to hear that his film is finally completed by his friends and family.

[@karmaduq]

Checking whether the decontamination efforts have "reached into the mountains"? One does not simply "decontaminate the mountains".

[@ffflyer2266]

Good for that guy God bless him protect them

[@suewills7099]

My prayers go out to you all. Deepest sympathy to you all.god bless you I will never forget your heart ache.

[@daveb5041]

11:30 *burning doesnt get rid of the radiation it just vaporizes it. Which is actually worse. How do they stop the particles from going into the air*

[@simflyr1957]

Only one comment comes to mind ... WOW! I live 35 miles downwind of a nuke power plant built in the mid 70s. All the spent fuel remains on-site... I think of it often.

[@shananigans08ify]

Do yourself a favor and move.

[@Wutzmename]

Really great reporting. So tragic.

[@blackhawks81H]

Japanese Popeye jumping on his boat and heading out to meet the tsunami head on is an absolute badass. He had the right idea. I always thought that's exactly what I would do when I lived in Hawaiʻi and ran a fishing boat, if a big tsunami was coming. At the time I always told myself that it was a ridiculous idea, and that it wouldn't work, etc... So it's cool to see someone who actually did it and succeeded. Proof of concept.

[@kiapanthistledown9453]

Long ago, I know, but in fact, this is what boat owners do in Hawaii when a tsunami is inbound.

[@diegoespinosa7527]

Against all odds, may Yuna be found and may his Father find peace at last.

[@cryptearth]

one has to take into account the half-life time - chernobyl happened back in 1986 - this is about 34 years ago today - fukushima is only 9 years ago - so chernobyl already had 3 times longer already than fukushima - so radiation levels already had some time to get down a bit - and even now it's still way too high - so, sure the radiation levels at fukushima are way higher than chernobyl so anything already tried at chernobyl fails at fukushima it will take many generations for the radiation levels to lower enough so anyone may can start to dismantle the reactors - in a far future we all and even our grand-children will not see

[@MuchoJimbocho]

Meanwhile the political incumbents in Australia have recommended in a House of Reps Standing Committee on Environment and Energy Report (Dec 2019) into Nuclear Energy that "the Australian Government consider the prospect of nuclear energy technology as part of its future energy mix " whilst "Putting the community at the centre of efforts to progress consideration of nuclear energy in Australia". This report was opposed by other political parties. The majority report is selective in its treatment of evidence provided and turns a blind eye to the questions of liability for accidents, insurance, bankruptcy, and allocation of responsibility for the costs of decommissioning. Search for the words 'Liability', 'Insurance' and 'Bankruptcy' in the main report and they are nowhere to be found.

[@mysteryeye3781]

as an Australian when i heard that i was deeply concerned when i heard that nuclear energy is not ok personal i think that no more power plants should be created

[@WebmsJU]

@@mysteryeye3781 why ? Nuclear reactors are our safest/cleanest way of making electricity for the moment.

[@LizyIsLost]

I have never heard of this... and that scares me

what? really??

[@joshjarrett8896]

Yea what really you've never heard of Fukushima? Or did u mean something else and where is the rock you reside under?

[@usernate5995]

Next you should look up the ghost town of Chernobyl

[@gt4666master]

@@usernate5995 the town is called "Pripyat"

[@TheGarudaINA]

Please, turn on th CC

[@patricknguyen2680]

All the best wishes, from Australia with love

[@MothKeeper]

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@NealB123]

There will still be cleanup going on at Fukushima Daiichi a thousand years from now. All because TEPCO ignored many years of warnings about the diesel generators being vulnerable to flooding.

[@idk_nkname]

What matters about Fukushima is not nature. It's radiation that people must focus on. Abe forced(?) people who fled from disaster to return to their previous homes in Fukushima some times ago (I don't know the exact date). What a shame.

[@airsickspace9272]

Well radiation is very natural. And has been around longer than the earth has. But the amount of radiation is what is important

[@dennistafeltennis1190]

I have the greatest respect for the Japanese people. Such a beautiful country and culture. And they have endured so much pain. Now and in the past.

[@jcb6436]

Weeeeeeeeelll let's not forget Nanking shall we.

[@pierremh1979]

@@jcb6436 this people are born after the ww2, don't blame to everyone.

[@jcb6436]

@@pierremh1979 Well the original post refer to their culture, Nanking is kind in the middle of it.

[@desheng0506]

then you should work more hard to learn more about the histories of China, Tailand Vietnam during 1800-1950

[@mobius8407]

People think of the nuclear power as a negative thing because of Chernobyl and Fukushima because of the contamination, yet people are fine wil solar panels that have short lifespan and a lot of toxic waste during making and decomissioning, wind generators that kill birds and are really noisy, Hydroelectric plants that ruin fish migration and submerge nearby land with dams, and most of all, fossil fuels that ruin the air we breathe worldwide. I am not saying that nuclear disasters are negligent in their severity, I am saying that the benefits are worth the risk more than any 'green energy' has ever been or is EDIT: this documentary says that there was a nuclear explosion, when in fact it's been proven that at least 2 of those 3 reactors had nuclear fuel meltdowns and the only reason radioactive waste got out is because of poor damage control that breaches all the water cooling system valves and flooded the core

[@aleksifrmdao]

People should do their research

[@anitarai792]

In Fukushima we got a job and it is good place for foreign Student ?

[@community1949]

Personally I don't think they will ever be able to completely clean up that land, air, or water!!!!

[@angelaweedon3193]

I feel desperately sorry for all the lost vats and digs

[@MrDoso2001]

I really expect more form the ABC to be a little less emotional and bit more balanced in it's reporting, the only people they interviewed were strongly anti-nuclear without an opposing view given.... I guess thats what journalism in the 21'st century has become

[@robinsea]

I feel like that's not the most appropriate thing to focus on when talking about a nuclear disaster, especially on this scale. There's certainly a very complex discussion to be had about the merits and risks of nuclear energy, but when focusing on the site if a meltdown, going there and saying things (however true or well meaning) about how nuclear power is good actually, would be insensitive.

[@janmcelvain8370]

I can't help but wonder how many of those bags are leaking radiation contaminates....

[@MothKeeper]

3

[@benfellows7469]

Why don't they just fill in the building with concrete? Then im can't fill up with water anymore and then you won't have to worry about removing the fuel because it'll be incased in concrete.

[@hellominions1604]

This is the real cost of nuclear power, yet mankind is still hell bent on pursuing nuclear power. As Einstein said, its a hell of a way to boil water.

[@zolikoff]

It's a better way to produce electricity than any other so far in history, of course mankind is interested in pursuing it. Not enough so far, but this should change in the next century or so, mankind will slowly grow out of this ridiculous religious radiophobia it has today.

[@WebmsJU]

Just don't forget that those accidents are human errors (Chernobyl) or caused by nature (Tsunami + earthquake)

[@dogyouare]

Mk3 golf just sitting... I bet it will start with a jump

[@btwest6530]

It's be nice if the reporter could add a little more inflection in ev-ree-thing he says.

[@muhammadjawadaslam9020]

"They don't know where nuclear fuel is" *How about it getting into ground water* *They should have taken the same or similar steps of massive task force formed to deal with the fallout like they did at Chenobly*

[@stormdancer25]

In Chernobyl nuclear power plant, there were 50,000 volunteers who sacrificed themselves to save the world. Fukushima is a private company plant, no volunteers to sacrifice for the better cause.

[@sebastianc09]

and now the water is being released...

[@pyschointellectual]

Why cant the water be evaporated, please forgive my stupidity and give me a simple answer

[@Romax420]

Glad I live in New Zealand 🖤

[@TheEarthHistorysConfusing]

Roma x : glad I live in Australia.

[@blkdiamond7227]

we are our worst enemies. creating dangerous stuff but not knowing how to diffuse them in an emergency.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

But no one died from Fukushima radiation.

[@keleidoscope]

Better than the 60 minutes one because they actually named the towns we are looking at instead of calling it all 'fukushima', but I do wish someone had taught Mark how to pronounce the name correctly instead of fookushima.

[@MothKeeper]

😳🙄😴😴😴

[@valcrist7428]

Wow! I can live there.. I don't mind the slight radiation. The body can handle it..

[@leshenderson5137]

A trillion dollar price tag more like it and that is conservative . Most likely every individual on this planet has absorbed radiation from this disaster and will continue to absorb (supposedly) small amounts of radiation that won’t hurt us for the rest of our lives . Thanks TEPCO

[@richardkelly5409]

Les Henderson , I won’t buy fish caught in the Pacific .

[@MothKeeper]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🙄

[@MICKEYISLOWD]

Half of Japan nearly lost forever yet nuclear power stations are still there. 450 more worldwide and so ow many moreare in zones that are susceptible to natural catastrophe..? Now with highly unpredictable climate change and unknown unknowns what are the actual risks. I believe nuclear can be safe but now we have abrupt climate change and sustainability issues along with a growing terrorist threat It appears its just not an option we can have and this is too much to take in when we know fossil fuels must now stay in the ground sequestered by nature. We are already through our fossil fuel budget so only the hope of fusion power is remaining to power the next generation and I don't believe in 'hope'.

[@benfellows7469]

The actors in the new show look exactly like the actual people!

[@m333pm333p]

Hundreds of years after they are all passed away, the rest of the world will still be suffering sickness from their negligence. There is no price tag on sickness.

[@DaeisArc]

yeah dude lets just predict a huge tsunami caused by a huge earthquake no biggie

[@m333pm333p]

@@DaeisArc sure. The thing that started the disaster might have been unforeseeable. But the fact the standard mechanisms to shut down the reactor or even maintain it is hard to forgive. If they were at all concerned with the possibility of a failure they should have started shutting it down years in advance but instead they stayed silent and the impact is almost incalculable. If they asked the world to help it could have made a big difference but they didn't. Sad the world has been so abused. And I'm sick. I don't know why. The hospital didn't know. And they are overwhelmed. We don't even have many cases of corona virus in the whole country. But if we can't even treat basic illness if the pandemic hits us it's going to be chaos. But the thing is that they failed to have basic emergency procedures in place and they are just dumping it in the ocean. Sorry if it seems like I am having a rant but it seems to have been swept under the rug.

[@DaeisArc]

@@m333pm333p get well soon.

[@m333pm333p]

@@DaeisArc thank you for your kind words. May good fortune be in your future.

[@m333pm333p]

@Leopold I don't think I did but if I can I will. I don't think I was asked but if I can push past my weakness and poor health I would like to help. Any advice what I can do?

[@sarahbraun3788]

Last Man on Earth Vibes at 3:00

[@bpm990d]

Gregory B. Jaczko is not someone that I trust to give good information. He was forced to resign from his job as NRC chairman and there was widespread criticism of him from Democrats and Republicans on the commission for his failures following the US response as well as his bullying of female staff of the commission.

[@ChiefsFanInSC]

Ironically, those cows will get to die happy and of old age. A far more dignified death that other cows endure.

[@bestthealan]

Stop the madness! put all rods in a safe place.

[@airsickspace9272]

I don’t think the main issue is fuel rods. And it’s almost impossible to get them out of the power plant if they’re all melted.

[@eugeneosborn9551]

Whats a "safe place"?

[@josh-fr3hr]

they cant fix it

[@ForbiddTV]

They are fixing it.

[@ffflyer2266]

Poison to landscape Chernobyl jelly looks like nothing

[@sufletmik]

Well that was the first, this is the second.. Same results!.... Nice well done humans! 🙆‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@voodoodolly]

Awe man. We cant safly use nuclear energy....as Chernobyl guys said, we have had our final warning.

[@WebmsJU]

Yes we can. Chernobyl disaster was caused by a human error.

[@ffflyer2266]

I Am Legend

[@yumiwatanabe440]

and chords of chinese flu infested zombies fighting for toilet paper when night comes

[@ffflyer2266]

Job where's your dog

[@angelaweedon3193]

C as TS!

[@billgoose5768]

Well in case of War I promise I won't use nukes if you do 😁😁😁 is this place not strongly guarded? Or do people who try to get and sell what's worth something MAYBE 😳🙄😳 end up dying???

[@peace77777]

Is it safe to eat Japanese nuclear waste? Use it as general agricultural mineral water! ~Make a swimming pool and swim~

[@rachelklein2319]

Why did anyone think we could run nuclear reactors when we never had ANY plan for the waste except to pour it in the ocean or dump it on the earth where it would eventually run into our drinking water?

[@angelaweedon3193]

It will be like tschernobyl. Won't it. So wild life will be there and thrive. Without man. Except got the radiation. Maybe wild life, nature, will win. In the end.

[@ffflyer2266]

Jet stream ocean current cable TV

[@thewiseperson8748]

... The tsunami protection wall outside Fukushima Dai'icxhi facility was built too low => USA and Japan are responsible for this oversight and causing huge radioactive contamination of the Pacific Ocean. The Fukushima Dai'ichi facility should have been buil n higher ground up the nearby hill with longer cooling water intake pipes; that would have protected the nuclear faciliy from the tsunami. The AP-1000 reactor design was completely unsuitable for deployment in tsunami-prone areas, with the temporary spent fuel pool at the top of the nuclear reactor stack. A CANDU type reactor configuration should have been used. Conclusion: US and Japanese stupidity is completely to blame for the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Dai'ichi. Now Tokyo is irreparably damaged by nuclear radioactive dust ("hot particles"). 30 million black bags of nuclear waste collected some years ago and stacked up and now disintegrating, causing their contents to recontaminate the Japanese environment.

[@mikelaw9872]

besides the natural disaster, we human being did a lot of stupid things to harm the world.

[@jaywalker6928]

now get the groundwater out and get ahh big drink of that,,buddy,,,,

[@o0junglist0o93]

Yep nuclear is very clean indeed

[@ffflyer2266]

Fukushima burning restart bright burn burn burn glow glow glow

[@girlvid]

how in the world did anyone ever allow plants like this to ever open with no solutions to the accident possibilities. shame on you greedy bast%^*rd society!! still this continues!!!

[@gladiluchina]

a clean power is a joke! no way! a invisible danger! how human being is so stupid! when things go wrong, almost nothing is done! thats so sad!! many say japanese people is very serious with all things, but they cant handle with this own problem that they got it.

[@cappywa]

What about the Nuclear fall out that spewed into the ocean, and still is.... Love how we don't even mention that.

[@666bishopTPRpro]

What's worse than the tragedy is these Horrid commentators.

[@kananaskiscountry8191]

why could they not have done this with Chernobyl??? = instead they haven't cleaned up nothing there like they have here 🤔🦅

[@robinsea]

Maybe the scale of the effected area and the extent of the contamination is too much?

[@kananaskiscountry8191]

@Alberto Murillo ok

[@shanelocke13]

@@kananaskiscountry8191 Chernobyl Is Too Dangerous To Clean Up And Will Probably Take 1000's Of Years To Get Safe Enough To Clean Up The Mess Caused

[@gt4666master]

The irradiated zone is 30km in diameter ++

[@kananaskiscountry8191]

@@gt4666master ok ty

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

A recycled old piece. What it fails to mention is there were no radiation deaths and no increases in cancers. The containment structures have done their job unlike Chernobyl where they did have to entomb it.

[@travisgraham6083]

The sweet sponge prospectively stitch because cuticle globally love unto a disgusted otter. hollow, sick dry

[@ryanm0w]

They need to start using AI Robots more rather than humans

[@deezirkel5995]

They're all gonners.

[@ForbiddTV]

No one died from Fukushima radiation.

[@tommorris3688]

Fukushima Dai'ichi: it is an extinction level event - very sad - with whales, dolphins, birds, fish like salmon - all being decimated along the West coast of USA and Canada - the die-off temporally correlates with events at Fukushima Dai'ichi. The die-off is hardly mysterious - it is very clear. There has been the biggest media coverup of the accident in history - Japanese political and industry leaders are in denial - hoping that forgetting about the accident will make the accident disappear - such attitude is sheer madness and delusional. Such is the impact of technology that Albert Einstein described as "... one hell of a way to boil water !"

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

Show something that has gone extinct due to Fukushima radiation. Show any whales, dolphins, birds, fish like salmon that have died from Fukushima radiation. Your nonsense is not impressive.

[@Brendan-jy6yb]

We should build a nuclear reactor on every faultline on earth