Erinnerung

[matrixmann]

Originally posted by matrixmann at Erinnerung

2011: An earthquake with the magnitude of 9.0 appears under water not far from the coast of Japan.
First the quake itself devastates the area, but more importantly it triggers a tsunami wave which adds on top of this.
A nearby nuclear power plant in Fukushima was affected heavily by both and, due to human arrogance and greed that made it be constructed suitable to economical needs, but not apropriate to the needs of a facility that stands on a cliff coast of a volcanic island, a meltdown appeared during the following days.
400.000 people in estimated numbers had to leave their homes and be evacuated in the zone set by the state around the power plant.
The state of Japan, being located where it is, hung on a thing thread depending on the outcome of the acute actions made to meet this disaster.

Still until this very day, the consequences out of this event keep the authorities busy.

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

I feel that they do not give much info about it in mass media. From time to time I see though some tiny article about contamination and the effects still there being devastating. But everyone seems to forget about it and pretend that now everything is great meanwhile the half-life of some radioactive elements that got into the ocean maybe up to 100 years.

[matrixmann]

It's right, news about the topic have ceased to small side-note-like stuff.
Although even these small side-notes don't speak like they got any plan what to do with all the radiocative water and material from the power plant.

Meanwhile, here or there, already appeared photo series about now abandoned places within the evacuation zone. People went there like when they visit abandoned areas normally, but only that it's not single buildings they find, it's whole villages and towns.
Pripyat surely didn't look much different a few years after the fallout... It's only now like a whole ghost town and rotten because of all the time it already stood unmaintained in all seasons.

Mentioning that, actually it's a thing they also slowly admitted through the backdoor that the event in Japan also had been a nuclear meltdown. Media really did their best efforts too to put a cover on this. - While still continuing the mantra of "the Soviets were too stupid to handle a meltdown - and in the end they even were cruel, sending all that people in there who didn't even know what they were doing!".
Nothing much better happened there in Japan, only difference was: In Ukraine, one reactor went up. In Fukushima, it was 3 of six.