Fukushima Third Anniversary the Damage Mounts
B. McPherson Three years later. Still believe those who say the atom is friendly? Fukushima Prefecture marks its third anniversary of its wreck on March 11 th . For the victims of the tsunami and nuclear disaster this is a sad occasion. Thousands of people were affected by the horrendous tsunami that roared over the Japanese coast following a massive earthquake. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station was wrecked and is still spewing radioactive materials into the air, soil and water. The treatment of the people affected by this disaster has been poor and it’s about to get worse. The Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has announced that 30 000 displaced people will be moved back to the exclusion zone and the reactors restarted within two years. In spite of heroics by the staff of the crippled reactor complex the effort to clean up the radioactive soil and stop further escape of toxic particles it remains a dangerously polluting sore. The company responsible...