but gradually, because of the media, because of the government, everybody is telling fukushima that fukushima is fine, and you can eat fukushima foods. you don't have to go. if you go, you can't get medical expense, or you can't join the medical tests. they have been doing. so most of them kind of like -- there are three different -- >> so if you leave the area, you don't get medical care provided by the government? >> that's right. so they have to be there. and there are basically three different kinds of groups. one group, they're very aware of all of that, the danger of the situation, so they get out of fukushima, or they are very very worried. the other group is very unvigorous. well, someone says its safe. other people say no, it's not safe. so they are very confused. and more than half of the people think that okay, it could be fine. and i love this place, so we're going to stay here, and stick with here no matter what. as a matter of fact, there was a fukushima festival in new york city a couple of weeks ago. and i went to see what it was like, and it was very successful. performers, a

most of the plaintiffs are from fukushima. many had to evacuate their homes because of radio active contamination. self-lawsuits were filed on the same day at the district courts in fukushima, tokyo. they're demanding the region be are stored to the condition before the accident. >> translator: financial compensation is at a stand still because we all suffered from the i did as it sere in different ways. it's also because of the reliability of tepco and the japanese government has been established. >> total compensation is about $55 million. >> a number of farmers are eager get back to the fields. government officials say about 20% of them still can't plant and harvest in their hometowns. >> it was part of the area. people can now visit the homes and fields during the day, but they don't know when they can return for good. we have the story. >> reporter: this man and his ancestors have grown rice in the district for about 400 years. 1200 other families farm here too. but the tsunami flooded the patties, and concerns about radi

. >> fukushima reinvigorated this discussion of how n.r.c. considers land contamination, economic consequences within its regulatory framework and also if the n.r.c. would like to do anything differently in the future. >> we're always looking for ways to improve the regulatory process and how we regulate the civilian uses of nuclear materials. >> but some experts are concerned about safety and regulations. today, u.s. nuclear power plants are aging. built to last 40 years, more than half are at least 30 years old. >> if we're going to have nuclear power, then we believe it has to be as safe and secure as possible. and we've been long concerned that neither in the united states or other countries is the regulatory infrastructure adequate to make sure nuclear plants are safe. >> i think that there is reasonable assurance that we're never going to have a catastrophic accident of the magnitude of what happened in japan. >> but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. >> you know, it can be the black swan event: low probability of occurrence but high

this is a comparison between the fukushima and the plan in taiwan. when the synonymy comes -- tsunami comes it hits the ground. that means the seawater comes from the intake. this is out without any building. they have a building to protect. after the fukushima accident, this was requested to add more for what it takes from the building. we have an emergency generator. this is what it was hereby the tsunami. another thing is the level of our plan is about 11 meters to the level. japan is only about five or seven meters. because of the sign on the height, it is now working in meters. we request this to change the watertight for the buildings. this is in addition to the generator. the fourth one as we have it on this level. we require them to have a seismic resistant building. the last one is this reservoir. i mentioned this before. we have thousands of counsel. the highest point is about 100 meters high. the reservoir was not built for this. it is built for the season. they found out this is very useful. they can supply it with out any gravity. if you

he decided to go to fukushima dai-ichi himself. he was later criticized for interfering with the emergency work at the plant, but he says he had to find out what was really going on. >> narrator: at fukushima dai-ichi, the prime minister met directly with the tepco engineers. he insisted they vent the reactors. >> (translated): kan was very angry. the government had given an order. what was tepco doing? but we were trying our best. the valves were hard to open. we were genuinely trying. we just hadn't managed it. >> narrator: the plant manager, masao yoshida, was known for being frank. he knew the radiation near the vents was at potentially fatal levels, but he told the prime minister he'd send in a suicide squad if necessary. >> narrator: the prime minister knew his orders might condemn the men who went into the reactor to death, but he felt japan's future was at stake. >> narrator: but then tepco got some news which meant the venting was delayed yet again. the evacuation of the surrounding villages was not yet complete. if the re

embark on a 10 day survey of the fukushima coast. their goal was to find out why fish retain high-levels of radiation. >> it's very mysterious thing. the radioactivity level in marine organisms should be much lower. >> reporter: the group started work at a point 40 kilometers from the nuclear plant. it then went to 20 kilometers. and to the edge of the off limit zone. we are just 5 kilometers from fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. you can see the plant there in the distance.s facility by sea since t t t t t t t t t accident. the researchers took samples of water, mud from the sea bottom, plankton and other marine organisms at 15 points aro a a n the area. this device consists of 24 cylinders. scientists sank it into the ocean and remotely controlled each cylinder individually in order to collect water samples at different depths. the company responsible for fukushima daiichi says no radioactive materials are entering the ocean from the crippled plant. the scientists say if that is the case, fish must be accumulating radioactivit

today marks two years since four nuclear reactors at japan's fukushima daiichi nuclear site were struck and nearly destroyed by a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami event tragically transformed the area into one of the most contaminated places on earth two years after the fact radiation levels at the site remain dangerously high and ongoing environmental disaster that will continue for decades and it's far from contained according to a study by the woods hole oceanographic institution the radiation from the nuclear plant that was directly released into the ocean represents the largest accidental release of radiation to the ocean and history the effects of which are vastly unknown to discuss fukushima as well as the continued use of nuclear energy around the world i was joined earlier by jim nuclear policy analyst at greenpeace i first asked him about the complicity of tepco japan's main power company in the disaster and here's what he had to say. still of the problems the g.e. reactors for quite some time in the one nine hundred seventy s. it came out that our own regulators knew

he's checking up on his wards from fukushima. >> translator: a student from fukushima waved back at me with a smile. i think he's doing all right. >> reporter: for the past year and a half, ito has kept an eye on the children. he shares his observations with parents and other teachers. ito has to work late into the day. as more than 150 of his wards are scattered around the prefecture. he also calls on children who need extra attention. this child lives with her grandmotheand sister. she had trouble adjusting to her new surroundings. then he parents went back to fukushima to work. often she didn't go to school. >> translator: great. you understand this math. >> reporter: she feels more secure because she realizes ito cares about her. now she goes to school every day. >> translator: she seemed troubled at first, so we asked mr. ito to come and see her, and that's what he did. i really appreciate his help. >> reporter: recently, ito has noticed that some youngsters are changing their behavior. they are starting to open up about their worries more than before. >> translator: the children

at fukushima. in japan and quite often when a certain construction project requires an immediate workforce in large numbers bosses make a phone call to the so was the case with fukushima the government called tepco to take a joint action tepco relayed it to subcontractors and they eventually as they had a shortage of available workers called the yacht could sell for help to the us with a. but fukushima is no ordinary construction site the workers drawn to the power plant by the young kids or mostly with gambling debts to the organization or family obligations often had absolutely no idea what they were dealing with. they were given very general info about radiation and most were not even given radiation meters they could have exposed themselves to large doses without even knowing it even the so called fukushima fifty the first group of workers sent there immediately after the disaster at least three of them were enrolled by the. suzuki published details of what he says is solid evidence but tepco o

nhk world, minamisoma, fukushima. >>> now, not all areas in fukushima required deac decontaminati decontamination. still, local officials have started a long-term monitoring program for the 2 million residents of fukushima. they're working to assess the health risks from the radiation emitted at the time of the to fukushima accident. they say they have not found cases of exposure that could cause health problems so far. but many feel they have to remain on guard. nhk world's reporter has more. >> reporter: her and her 18-year-old daughter had lived in fukushima all their lives. they're constantly worried about the radiation released from fukushima daiichi. >> translator: i'm concerned about our internal exposure. >> reporter: they're concerned because radioactive cesium has a half-life of 30 years. she took her daughter to the hospital to find out if she had been exposed. >> translator: we did not detect cesium in your body. we don't think there's any accumulation in your system. >> reporter: many people in fukushima have been getting checked. once humans ingest cesium, either by breathing, drink

more on these developments and what's next for the country in turmoil and more than two years ago the fukushima power plant disaster started now the plant manager fighting to keep it under control has died while radiation levels have increased more on the legacy of up in today's show. it's wednesday july tenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax you're watching r.t. and we begin with major news in the bradley manning trial the defense has rested its case the private first class is facing twenty one charges including aiding the enemy for his role in providing wiki leaks with internal state department and military documents and one day after attempting to have some of the most serious charges against bradley manning dismissed in only three days into their arguments the defense has now rested i spoke with our correspondent lives waller earlier from for me in maryland with the latest on the trial. did that come as a surprise sabba happened at about two point five this afternoon after some of the most compelling testimony we have heard yet in this trial and the after that bradley manning's attorn

embark on a ten-day survey of the fukushima coast. their goal was to find out why fish retain high levels of radiation. >> it's a very mysterious thing. the radio activity level should be much lower. >> the group started work at a point 40 kilometers from the nuclear plant. then they went to 20 kilometers, and then to the edge of the off limit zone. >> we're just five kilometers from fukushima daiichi power plant. you can see the plant there in the distance. this is the first time researchers outside of japan have come close to the facility by sea since the march 2011 accident. the researchers took samples of water, mud from the sea bottom, plankton, and other organisms at 15 points around the area. this device consists of 24 cylinders. they remotely sank it and controlled each cylinder by remote control. to collect water samples at different depths. the company responsible for fukushima daiichi says no new radio active materials are entering the ocean from the crippled plant. the scientists say if that is the case, fish must be accum

there are several options to reduce the environmental impact of radiation in fukushima. none of them offers a perfect solution, but the point will be to choose the option that's most effective in reducing the risks associated with radiation. >> reporter: one of the biggest challenges for tepco is to decontaminate water faster than it accumulates. the a.l.p.s. system could be the decisive factor to win that battle, but only if the utility manages to operate it at full capacity. noriko okada, nhk world. >>> the international atomic energy agency is about to lend a hand to the workers in fukushima prefecture. it's sending a team of experts to offer advice on decontaminat the plant. the international nuclear watchdog says 16 experts from inside and outside of the agency will be in japan from october 14th through the 21st. it's the second iaea team to be sent to support the cleanup in fukushima since the 2011 accident. their mission will be to check whether the decontamination work is being carried out properly. they'll also offer recommendations. the cleanup work is falling

nothing about fukushima straightforward. no one died here. is still high. sits five miles from the plant. they called this japan's chernobyl. two days after the first reactor exploded, it's 20,000 residents were told to get in their cars and leave. this was one of them. he takes me to see the house that his family lived in for 150 years. he tells me his family is scattered right across japan. inside, he shows me where he and his father used to have sauce. -- family escaped unsafe unscathed. 11, their life0 here ended. you could see that it did a lot of damage. we could have started cleaning up the next day. then came the plant explosion and we were told to flee. we are still refugees. we have no idea whether our business will ever start again. brought us a few kilometers from his house. the levels here are much much higher. the reading was about .05. , you can see it is 13.2. you put this down on the ground, the level goes up to around 154. want to stay here any more time than we have to. i think we have to go. >> it is quite easy to get panicked by such re

welcome back to the picture coming up on this half the fukushima disaster and already reeling japan into a full on crisis mode but are the worst meltdowns that's yet to come we'll find out in just a moment and like it or not the information is that your information is up for sale on the internet is the age of anonymity over could a new bill in the california legislature keep the data pirates in check. and in the best of the rest of the news the japanese aren't the only ones who are continuing to suffer from the fallout of the fukushima nuclear disaster and out appears that radiation released from the failed fukushima reactors back in march of two thousand and eleven more than two years ago have affected children born in hawaii and along the entire west coast of the united states according to the radiation in public health project children born in alaska california hawaii washington state and oregon between one week and sixteen weeks after the nuclear meltdown we're twenty eight percent more likely to suffer from congenital hypo thyroid ism than were kids born in those states during the s

this is a comparison between the fukushima and the plan in taiwan. when the synonymyy comes -- tsunami comes it hits the ground. that means the seawater comes from the intake. this is out without any building. they have building to protect. after the fukushima accident, this was requested to add more for what it takes from the building. we have an emergency generator. this is what it was hereby the tsunami. another thing is the level of our plan is about 11 meters to the level. japan is only about five or seven meters. because of the sign on the height, it is now working in meters. we request this to change the watertight for the buildings. this is in addition to the generator. the fourth one as we have it on this level. we require them to have a seismic resistant building. the last one is this reservoir. i mentioned this before. we have thousands of counsel. the highest point is about 100 meters high. the reservoir was not built for this. it is built for the season. they found out this is very useful. they can supply it with out any gravity. if you

>> there will be impacts from the fukushima incident. from people who were exposed during the early days, to those who were consuming contaminated produce and foods. we expect there will be on the order of at least a thousand cancer deaths worldwide from the accident probably more. but i think the implications for the worldwide nuclear industry is really troubling, because even after fukushima, countries like china and india continue to pursue the construction of large numbers of nuclear power plants. even in japan it's the government's plan to reopen the plants that were shut down. and we need to consider whether all of the impacts of the severe accident like fukushima are being considered in this decision. >> ian tell us what you think. >> i think there will be virtually zero impact. and that has been emphasized by the world health commission, by the un, that there should be no long-term health effects for anybody from the fukushima accident. that has been very clearly stated after a couple of years, and careful investigation. so i wou

fukushima well you know the people that made the reactor are held accountable the way the walls are set up it protects corporations rather than people so the people pay the price of getting dosed with radiation having to evacuate their land you have over one hundred sixty thousand individuals who can't go back and the area the size of the state of south carolina that's contaminated and so we think that the people who actually contributed to the accident should actually pay for some of the costs tepco has been bailed out but g.e. has not paid one cent for an accident that they helped and contribute to causing what is this legal loophole preventing genes from being accountable at all the nuclear industry never would have gotten into the game because splitting atoms is inherently dangerous activity they never would have split atoms in the first place if the government's didn't say listen you will be held accountable if something goes wrong and so all the laws with probably the exception of india and they're trying to fight you know hillary clinton letters were fighting to get india to chan

today marks two years since four nuclear reactors at japan's fukushima daiichi nuclear site were struck and nearly destroyed by a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami event tragically transform the area into one of the most contaminated places on earth two years after the fact radiation levels at the site remain dangerously high and ongoing environmental disaster that will continue for decades and it's far from contained according to a study by the woods hole oceanographic institution the radiation from the nuclear plant that was directly released into the ocean represents the largest accidental release of radiation to the ocean and history effects of which are vastly unknown to discuss fukushima as well as the continued use of nuclear energy around the world i was joined earlier by jim nuclear policy analyst at greenpeace i first asked him about the complicity of tepco japan's main power company in the disaster and here's what he had to say. are you still of the problems that g.e. reactors for quite some time in the one nine hundred seventy that our own regulators knew that if the

today marks two years since four nuclear reactors at japan's fukushima daiichi nuclear site were struck and nearly destroyed by a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami event tragically transform the area into one of the most contaminated places on earth two years after the fact radiation levels at the site remain dangerously high and ongoing environmental disaster that will continue for decades and it's far from contained according to a study by the woods hole oceanographic institution the radiation from the nuclear plant that was directly released into the ocean represents the largest accidental release of radiation to the ocean and history effects of which are vastly unknown so discussed fukushima as well as the continued use of nuclear energy around the world i was joined earlier by jim nuclear policy analyst at greenpeace i first asked him about the complicity of tepco japan's main power company in the disaster and here's what he had to say. you know one of the problems the g.e. reactors for quite some time in the one nine hundred seventy s. it came out that our own regulators k

he visited fukushima in february this year. he decided to get behind the prefecture's recovery and agreed to train a japanese chef in paris for ten days. >> translator: i want to see the people from this region recover their confidence. that's why i agreed to accept this young chef as a trainee. >> since the earthquake, he had wanted to revive interest in the foods from his prefecture. he had already experimented with making together with farmers. now he'll introduce ingredients in the home of french cuisine. >> translator: this is good. >> translator: fukushima became famous in unfortunate circumstances. i think it will eventually find the limelight for other reasons. it depends on our attitude and how we act from now on. >> the well known paris restaurant, he hoped the fukushima prefecture would impress. one ingredient is the fukushima game fowl, pride of the region with flesh ensures rich flavor as it's chewed on. dinners are assured the produce has passed radioactivity tests. the fowl is ready to be served and makes a frenc

nothing about fukushima straightforward. no one died here. is still high. sits five miles from the plant. they called this japan's chernobyl. two days after the first reactor exploded, it's 20,000 residents were told to get in their cars and leave. this was one of them. he takes me to see the house that his family lived in for 150 years. he tells me his family is scattered right across japan. inside, he shows me where he and his father used to have sauce. -- family escaped unsafe unscathed. 11, their life0 here ended. you could see that it did a lot of damage. we could have started cleaning up the next day. then came the plant explosion and we were told to flee. we are still refugees. we have no idea whether our business will ever start again. brought us a few kilometers from his house. the levels here are much much higher. the reading was about .05. , you can see it is 13.2. you put this down on the ground, the level goes up to around 154. want to stay here any more time than we have to. i think we have to go. >> it is quite easy to get panicked by such re

at fukushima. it was. in japan was a quite often when a certain construction project requires an immediate workforce in large numbers bosses make a phone call to the so was the case with fukushima the government called tepco to take a giant action tepco related to subcontractors and that eventually as they had a shortage of available workers give a call the young for help there was a reason but fukushima is no ordinary construction site the workers drawn to the power plant by the young kids or mostly with gambling debts to the organization or family obligations often had absolutely no idea what they were dealing with. they were given very general info about radiation and most were not even given radiation meters they could have exposed themselves to large doses without even knowing it even the so called fukushima fifty the first group of workers sent there immediately after the disaster at least three of them were enrolled by the. height of the wall suzuki published details of what he says is solid evidenc

at fukushima. in japan and quite often when a certain construction project requires an immediate workforce in large numbers bosses make a phone call to the so it was the case with fukushima the government called tepco to take action tepco relayed it to subcontractors and then eventually as they had a shortage of available workers called the yacht could sell for help to the us with them but fukushima is no ordinary construction site the workers drawn to the power plant by the young kids are mostly with gambling debts to the organization or family obligations often had absolutely no idea what they were dealing with. they were given very general info about radiation and most were not even given radiation meters they could have exposed themselves to large doses without even knowing it even the so called fukushima fifty the first group of workers sent there immediately after the disaster at least three of them were enrolled by the. suzuki publish details of what he says is solid evidence but tepco offic

we don't know the scale of the you know the tragedy at fukushima and we won't for some time which is why at greenpeace we're working to try to hold general electric and. high toci into sheba accountable for the harm that they've caused and you can go to our website and sign a petition to try to hold these corporations accountable because the governments aren't sure we can sign a petition but what else can we do because it really does seem helpless especially when you're talking about the total collusion. with the nuclear industry in the regulatory agencies i mean well is there anything else that we can do of course the way the way you can actually you know work against the industry in prince whatever your level of comfort is you can act like greenpeace and take it to the streets you can lobby your congressman and that can help because there are good people up there that want to see nuclear power regulated like you know ed bark you may become a senator. there are people that want to see nuclear power regulated and again we should phase out nuclear power we should replace it with clean

at fukushima. in japan and quite often when a certain construction project requires an immediate workforce in large numbers bosses make a phone call to the yeah so it was the case with fukushima the government called tepco to take an agent action tepco relayed it to subcontractors and they eventually as they had a shortage of available workers called the yeah could sell for help there was a rhythm. but fukushima is no ordinary construction site the workers drawn to the power plant by the young kids or mostly with gambling debts to the organization or family obligations often had absolutely no idea what they were dealing with. they were given very general info about radiation and most were not even given radiation meters they could have exposed themselves to large doses without even knowing it even the so called fukushima fifty the first group of workers sent there immediately after the disaster at least three of them were enrolled by the. suzuki published details of what he says is solid evidence b

then i stayed one day before i went to fukushima. my first impression was the japanese were so-called, super calm and there was no riot. that is very common. the people i visit were not surprised by this because the earthquake in japan was expected . >> it was a commonplace occurrence. lex it is quite common. they sort of predicted something like this would happen, although it was beyond their imagination. the earthquake was such a severe thing and he soon him he was really beyond expectation. >> let me ask you -- subsequent to the earthquake and soon on a, there were months in cities like tokyo that people were forced to go on electricity rationing programs. how did people respond to that? it's certainly something they did not expect in a city like tokyo. how did people who live there respond? >> you are correct. even though on april 20, i was there in the subway in tokyo. many elevators were shut down. people seemed to take it, but in the summer, a few aged people died because of heat and they became a little more panicked. again,

she decided to come here because she felt the children were stressed out by living in fukushima. after the move, the children seemed happy again. but last fall the younger boy, leo, started behaving differently. he often bursts into tears calling out for his father. the problem started after the father had to stop visiting every weekend. he was too busy working so leo only saw his father once a month. and it's time for one of those visits. the children can't seem to get enough of their dad. >> translator: previously, they didn't say daddy so much. but now they often feel the need to say it. it makes me feel sad. i blame myself when i leave and see them in tears. >> reporter: afterward, he became even more distraught. any time day or night he would burst into tears. being separated from his father was too much to bear. it was hard for her to tell which was more harmful to the boys. the risk of radiation exposure or the stress of living away from their father. for a whole week, he carries two coins that his father had given him. they're only worth about a dollar, but for rio it is