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Life in the shadow of a nuclear disaster

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By Eric Talmadge

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Very well written.

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Very good article and agree very well written.

JT, pls, more of that quality.

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Just like when peaple are discussing the Futenma issue, I'd like to ask-why did these people settled near nuclear plant?

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I think there should be a 10 km exclusion zone around every nuclear plant from the start. Authorities should deal with that before construction, in an orderly manner. Then, should the worst happen, you can spare all this panic. Meanwhile, the land could still be used, for agriculture and for tourism. Driving a few kilometers is no hardship.

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The closest Tadano has been is a furtive search on Google Earth.

Everyone should check the damage along "The Tsunami coast" on Google earth, just shocking. Agree with Sherman - well-written story.

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Just like when peaple are discussing the Futenma issue, I'd like to ask-why did these people settled near nuclear plant?

You don't think some families owned land there before the plant? Are they just supposed to abandon their property when the plant is built? Do you think the governemnt tried to buy them out?

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Eric Talmadge is genuinely a writer. More of his work, please. I agree that people fleeing the disaster should not be victimised by discrimination. But the government scolding people for not wanting to eat contaminated food is a crass political act. Policies to feed people foodstuffs that have been contaminated are needlessly risky.

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People know quality when they see it. As per the other comments, this is an excellently written piece. Well done JT.

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I did a search for more articles by the writer and discovered Eric Talmadge is editor of the AP Tokyo Bureau.

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Extremely talented writer. Reads like a Stephen King novel.

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It is contaminated in my mind.

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Yes, well written and enjoyable but still even this talented writer can't allow the facts to get in the way of a good, sensational story..

It was a once-in-a-millennium moment,

Pure garbage. Why is this rubbish still being perpetuated..

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Brilliantly written, this is what journalism should be. Not just the facts, the feelings, too. When nothing had ever gone wrong, why would people worry? It also shows that we should keep it all in perspective and speak out against ludicrous fears of people who just happened to come from there.

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