Friday, September 30, 2011

Some people try to get out of nuclear exposed area in Japan

Last time, I wrote about nuclear exposure due to collapse of the nuclear power plants.
This time, I am going to write about story that some people get out of that exposed area.

I'm in California, so I'm not so familiar with recent Japan, but I'm very concerning especially my home town 200 miles far from the plants because it is close to the nuclear plants and exposed with nuclear radiation more or less. It would be dangerous to live there considering accumulation of nuclear material in human body although the Japanese government says it is safe and it does not matter immediately. I strongly sure that it does not soon, but it will matter later as increasing rate of cancer later.
 A few weeks before, I talked to my friend living in Tokyo about how this nightmare disaster affects on behavior of people living there. According to him, those who are older or do not have a child does not care about it so much, but those who have small children really concern how nuclear radiation does harmful effects on their children. Unfortunately the Japanese government does not announce and warn nothing about it while saying it does not matter immediately. However some experts who are very familiar with the Chernoby case strongly emphasis and warned to us that it is not preferable for small children to live even in Tokyo for long time if they judged by detected amount of nuclear radiation. The point we have to think about is that it takes a few years for some results to come out. But if we notice something and take action after that, it will be too late to improve and take care of something. The friend of mine are really really concerning about that, so he calculated the risk of caner and the risk of death by researching a lot of published papers and books by himself. According to his estimation, one of 100 children will die if they continue to live there for 10 years there which is based on the statistical results of Chernoby case. If calculated pessimistically, more than ten times children will die. Therefore he already decided to move to safe area in order to protect his family even though his home town is there and he likes the area very much.

According to him, a lot of people consider similarly that it is better to move somewhere it is safe, and some of them will move actually in the near future.

I have to seriously consider it because I have to go back some day.

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