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(回答先: 福島原発事故：3年が経ち、住民は危険区域に帰る(France24 English) 投稿者 無段活用 日時 2014 年 6 月 21 日 11:34:41)
(Fukushima nuclear accident: Three years on, residents move back to danger area: France24 English)
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Fukushima nuclear accident: Three years on, residents move back to danger area
JAPAN - Fukushima nuclear accident: Three years... 投稿者 france24english
Three years after the Fukushima disaster, residents have been allowed to return to live within what was previously a no-go area near the nuclear plant. It's the first time that residents have been able to move back to areas less than 20 kilometres from the accident site. Our correspondents went to meet the residents of Tamura, who face an incredible challenge to rebuild their lives.
Report by Marie Linton, Justin McCurry, Guillaume Bression and Kiwa Wakabayashi
Programme prepared by Phoebe Lanzer Wood, Narimène Laouadi and Elise Duffau.
By Marie Linton
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(Presenter)
... of their home, then three years later coming back to start over, and imagine doing that in an area with high levels of radiation. That's the situation for people returning to a formally no-go area around the Fukushima nuclear plant less than 20 kilometres from the site. Our correspondents Marie Linton and Justin McCurry went to meet the residents of the town of Tamura facing incredible challenge of rebuild their lives.
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(Narration)
Three years after the Fukushima disaster, Yasuko Munakata is coming back to her home, located in 17 kilometres from the nuclear power plant.
(Yasuko Munakata, former evacuee from Tamura city)
Even though when this is harsh mountainous environment, if you're good to be back home. I've been living here for a long time.
(Narration)
This grandmother is one of 353 people who were now able to return to homes in the area of which their home was until recently part of the nuclear no-go zone around Fukushima Dai-ichi. This is the first time that residents have been allowed to be back to areas that are less than 20 kms from the plant.
（Fusao Yoshida, carpenter）
Because of the earthquake the tiles cracked into ruins. The floor have to be renovated. This is the kitchen, but its room isn't well because no one have lived for years.
(Narration)
Aged 80, Munakata has to start over. The family's crops were abandoned, their cows had to put down by the authorities, as has much of the livestock inside the nuclear evacuation zone.
(Yasuko Munakata, former evacuee from Tamura city)
My blood pressure went up, and I couldn't sleep, but I plan to start farming again, because the authorities have given us permission to raise cattle again.
(Narration)
Returned evacuees still have to confront radiation caused by the triple meltdown. Despite the decontamination work, levels here are still higher than the eventual goal of one millisievert a year. Munakata is concerned about her own health, but she is worried about her granddaughter, who plans to return to Tamura this coming autumn.
(Yasuko Munakata, former evacuee from Tamura city)
I'm concerned about Misaki coming back. Children don't like to stay inside, they want to spend time outdoors.
(Narration)
According to the Tamura authorities, so far only 27 of the 353 people able to return have done so. But the mayor believes in his town's revival. To prove its safe, he holds up bottles of local mineral water that's guaranteed radiation-free.
(Yokei Tomitsuka, Tamura mayor)
It was very important to re-open Tamura. People living in the same area were divided by the boundary of the 20 kilometre evacuation zone. On one side, people carried on living as normal, but on the other, people had to leave their homes.
(Narration)
Re-open of Furumichi primary school is key to Tamura's revival. Located to 22 kilometres from Fukushima Dai-ichi, this is the closest school to the nuclear plant.
(Kiyoshige Konnai, Furumichi school Principal)
The reopening of the school, we'll encourage people of the region as we'll show them that children are back. They will be able to hear their happy voices again.
(Narration)
66 pupiles started the academic year at the beginning of April, down from 99 before the nuclear accident. It looks like an ordinary school, apart from a monitoring post in the playground, showing that the radiation is below the target level.
(Kiyoshige Konnai, Furumichi school Principal)
There's no restrictions on playing outside. No restrictions on anything at all.
(Narration)
Not everyone from Tamura shares his optimism. Residents are refused to return to still living temporary housing complex in another part of town where is no evacuation order.
(Kitaro Saito, Nuclear evacuee)
The authorities promised 900,000 yen to each person who returns, to using money to downplay safety concerns.
(Narration)
With other municipalities set to join Tamura in lifting their evacuation orders, about 30,000 people are expected to move back to areas that will once off limits over next two years.
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(Presenter)
And from now some more we're joined from Canada by Mycle Schneider, an independent nuclear energy consultant. Hello, thank you very much to being with us. Now since the radiation levels are still high around Fukushima, isn't it too soon to allow people back?
(Mycle Schneider, Independent nuclear energy policy analyst)
Well, it looks very much like that. I think that the biggest problem here is really that the government, the Japanese government and TEPCO, the former operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, they try to give the illusion that this will be possible to make everything as it was before the events in 2011. And I think that it is the most dangerous thing to do because it is very clear that it will never be as it was before. And the government is taken the extraordinary measure to allow radiation exposure which would go up to a level of 20 millisieverts per year which is equivalent to the workers --- nuclear workers could get in nuclear facilities. That is now the limit existing for children that are much more radiation-sensitive than grown-up adults. So there is all kinds of concerns here with that decision to move people back.
(Presenter)
Now in our report, a woman talks about children wanting to play outside, but there are no restrictions on children at the nearest school. Outside/inside, does it really make a difference?
(Mycle Schneider)
Yes, it does make a difference. You'll see the problem is that a lot of these places have been what they called "decontaminated", which basically only means that you reduce radiation levels. You cannot clean up entirely. But the problem is that with climatic conditions --- rains, storms, etcetera, radiation from non-contaminated areas re-pollute the so-called "decontaminated" areas. So this is not static situation. It's not because it's low exposure at one point that it will outstay like that. Obviously the places outside, more subject to climatic changes than inside the homes or inside buildings.
(Presenter)
What do you suggest the governments do?
(Mycle Schneider)
Well, I think what is the most crucial decision that should be taken is to put everything into stabilising the site --- the Fukushima site itself, because as long as it is still possible to have scenarios that the situation actually worsens beyond what we have seen so far. There should not be any hope given to people, any illusion that they could move back. So that should be really the highest priority. The decisions that have been taken don't look at all, like only that direction.
Look at the so called "ice wall" that has been talked about so much which would mean like freezing the ground wall that there is now pushing into the basements and needs to huge problem of contaminated water management. This ice wall is another step in a direction that is not going to fix the problem permanently. And it's very hazardous because it has never been done on that scale at all before. It used to be done for some metres in tunnel construction or well construction, but never over of 1.5 kilometre distance. And it needs electricity, a lot of electricity in a stable supply, nothing is stable as we know. We have another piece of information today that the decontamination planned at the site has technical problems that be shut down.
That should be the highest priority.
(Presenter)
Now on that standpoint you want to advise the governor of Fukushima to what degree with your authorities were of the risks posed by having a nuclear plant in a particular area?
(Mycle Schneider)
Well I think that when I met first former governor of Fukushima around 2004-2005, it became very clear to the governor that there is hazardous potential, in particular by the way concerning the irradiated fuel, spent fuel. People understood for the first time with the Fukushima accident that danger is not over once you shut down a plant, once the actual chain reactions are not happening any more, but you'll have to cool the irradiated fuel for decades and decades, and that there's huge potential for that danger. And I think it was a time it had become clear to the governor that trust into TEPCO as an operator guaranteeing safety was not enough and he wanted to have additional advice, additional insurances that nothing can happen.
(Presenter)
One more quick question before we go, and to what degree would you say that all of this is being traumatic for people of Japan, not just those in the Fukushima area, are you imaging?
(Mycle Schneider)
I think that there has been very profound collect of trauma through this accident and events after. It's like losing entire belief system of the Japanese population --- belief in technology, belief in authorities, belief in companies --- those are fundamental values of Japanese society and they basically all blew up with the nuclear plant. So it's a collective very deep problem and I think that one has to keep that in mind. Look at reactions of the people on one hand. It's very clear that the Japanese population's stabled society does not want restart of any of the reactors in that country. I remind of you that all of them are shut down at this point. And on the other hand you have the banks, you have the owners of the plants and the utilities and the government that want to restart and want to downplay actually the follow of this accident ...
(Presenter)
Mycle Schneider, I'm very sorry to interrupt, but I'm afraid we've run out of time. I really appreciate you're joining us for Focus. Thank you very much.
(Mycle Schneider)
Thanks ....
(Presenter)
That's it brought from our Live from Paris show. I'll be back in a few minutes there with the full news round-up. Stay tuned.
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