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Letter from a Fukushima motherQuoteWhen Tomoko-san, a mother of two in Fukushima City, heard from an NGO worker that I was going to be in Fukushima to report on a story about radiation levels at local schools, she was kind enough to volunteer her time to speak to me – and handed me this letter. I promised to translate it and share it with you. So here it is:
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To people in the United States and around the world,
I am so sorry for the uranium and plutonium that Japan has released into the environment.
The fallout from Fukushima has already circled the world many times, reaching Hawaii, Alaska, and even New York.
We live 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the plant and our homes have been contaminated beyond levels seen at Chernobyl.
The cesium-137 they are finding in the soil will be here for 30 years. But the government will not help us. They tell us to stay put.
They tell our kids to put on masks and hats and keep going to school.This summer, our children won't be able to go swimming.
They won't be able to play outside.
They can't eat Fukushima's delicious peaches. They can't go visit Fukushima's beautiful rivers, mountains and lakes.
They can't even eat the rice that the Fukushima farmers are making. This makes me sad. This fills me with so much regret.
Instead, our children will spend the summer in their classrooms, with no air conditioning, sweating as they try to concentrate on their lessons.
We don't even know how much radiation they've already been exposed to.I was eight years old when the Fukushima Daiichi plant opened. If I had understood what they were building, I would have fought against it.
I didn't realize that it contained dangers that would threaten my children, my children's children and their children.I am grateful for all the aid all the world has sent us.
Now, what we ask is for you to speak out against the Japanese government.
Pressure them into taking action.
Tell them to make protecting children their top priority.Thank you so much,
Tomoko Hatsuzawa
Fukushima City
May 25, 2011
[Translated by Hiroko Tabuchi]
I cry for Humanity. I despise the choices made by few that so adversely affect to many. All for greed and control.
May the evil be vanquished and the planet healed.
Why is this crap being allowed to happen. >:( We face the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever seen and yet we sit idly by and wait for the Japanese govt. and Tepco to "FIX" it. If this is such a horrible disaster where the hell is the support and logistics from the UN and the world community? Every day we should be hearing about some new attempt to stop it yet the only reports are of business as usual. It is utterly disgusting and someone deserves to burn in hell over it in my opinion. >:(
Japan neither's had money nor techs to deal with such a trouble, so civilians can protest as long as they want to w/ no any positive results. no big secret, whole magic of economics in the USA, Europe & Japan been based upon cheap kW*h's & petroleum, also no big secret that the cheapness rather no's been product of really advanced techs, but mostly it's pure cutting corners. Magic like that can't continue very long & always has too sad aftermath.