Fukushima Revisited: As Nuclear Crisis Worsens Citizen Radiation Monitors Call for Evacuation
Channel: onthewaytoextinction
Date: 2013-02-25

Source video by democracynow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4vrBPKAgJ4

Uploaded on Jun 10, 2011 

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Robert Alvarez, former senior policy adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Energy
Democracy Now! interviews two experts about the Japanese nuclear crisis including Aileen Mioko Smith of Green Action and Robert Alvarez, former senior policy adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Energy. Almost three months after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster in Japan, new radiation "hot spots" may require the evacuation of more areas further from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility. Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency recently admitted for the first time that full nuclear meltdowns occurred at three of the plant's reactors, and more than doubled its estimate for the amount of radiation that leaked from the plant in the first week of the disaster in March.

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"What they failed to mention is that they discharged and equally large amount into the ocean," says Alvarez. "As [the radiation] goes up the food chain, it accumulates. By the time it reaches people who consume the food, the levels are higher than originally when they entered the environment." Smith says citizens leading their own monitoring efforts and are calling for additional evacuations, especially for young children and pregnant women.

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