Fukushima mothers record radiation for future generations

Its easy to forget things that happened a few years ago, ... unless you were directly impacted.

@Yabaru,

I usually read and move on, But your comments have me logging in and saddened.

I can't believe the cold heartedness with which you summed up the work these mother's are doing.

We may as well all quit our beliefs, work and aspirations with people such as yourself so willing to shoot people down.

I wish the mother's all the best in their work and hope more people will support them in the future.

zichi: "We are both guilty of using nuclear power."

Yes, but there is a difference between using nuclear power because you have no choice and while leading dissemination of information that cites the dangers of it, and also voting against such plants and their restarts, etc., than not. And what's more, in many of these towns the people agree to such plants because it provides jobs, and local government because it gets them money and puts them on the map. Had these women been drawing awareness BEFORE, and maybe they were in which case I take it back, and were against the plant, then I'd say that's different than simply doing this to an empty theatre because it happened to them.

Yubaru: "Fukushima will happen again, as long as TEPCO and other utilities are allowed to get by with sloppy management, AND the government allows them to remain in operation while knowing they sit on fault lines."

Yup. I was actually surprised Amazon was allowed to show Chernobyl in Japan, because the bungling of the whole situation was very much like Fukushima in terms of politics and cover up. And you're right, what these women do won't mean diddly squat to the government or the people, until it happens to them, same as these women were equally complacent until it came to their neck of the woods.

I’ve been there three times with my Geiger counter. It is very strange than my reading we’re almost always different to “official” readings.

"But when I joined the lab and started taking measurements, I was stunned that some showed high levels of radioactive contamination," the 40-year-old said. "I was depressed. What have I done to my children because of my ignorance?...I think there are many mothers (who blame themselves) like me."

The Japanese government in 2011, were actively promoting the safety and wholesomeness of Fukushima produce in spite of the lack of testing.

Citizens were castigated for holding ‘fears’ and hospitals refused to treat people for ailments related to radiation exposure.

There are millions of tons of radioactively contaminated soil dumped on mountains in Fukushima still not secured.

It was a complete coverup and still is....

Fukushima mothers record radiation for future generations

Got their hearts in the right place, but wasted effort! These mother's and all the other victims of the tsunami and earthquake wouldn't need to have done any of this, if they had heeded the warnings of, probably mother's, who centuries ago, placed stone markers on the slopes to warn following generations of people not to build lower than that line.

Fukushima will happen again, as long as TEPCO and other utilities are allowed to get by with sloppy management, AND the government allows them to remain in operation while knowing they sit on fault lines.

Sorry Mom's, nice effort, but it isnt going to matter one bit, and will end up as an anecdote in history!