Five years after Fukushima – My message remains the same: Stay away from Japan!
10 Apr, 2016 By Admin 3 Comments
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JAPAN. Five years after Fukushima – the worst nuclear disaster in human history. Five years went past since Fukushima Daiichi Plant changed many people’s lives. My family was one of those people. After a couple of months from 3/11, my wife and I made the toughest life decision to leave our own country for good.
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We took the decision based on being parents. As radioactive contamination has spread, Japan was no longer safe place for the small ones. We look back today, witnessing the changes in Japan. We have no regrets. We are never going back there.
Cancer on the rise
thyroid.cancer.japan.press.2016168 children out of 370 000 in Fukushima have already been diagnosed with pediatric thyroid cancer or are strongly suspected to have the disease. Many of them had operations to take out their thyroid glands. Before the disaster, the particular cancer was very rare and the authorities said they find only one or two in one million children. Today, one in two thousands.
As the data came out from the downplaying government, we interpreted it as the tip of an iceberg. Doctors and researchers keep warning us that it is not only youth to worry for, also grown ups are also suffering as well. Fukushima is a very unique case, an event where three reactors exploded with subsequent meltdowns – including one MOX reactor – has nothing to compare with. We only can assume how bad it is going to be.