Dosimeters 45km away from
Fukishima Prove its Danger
Fukushima Power Plant
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CREST the hill into the village of Iitate, and the reading
on a radiation dosimeter surges eightfold—even with the car
windows shut. “Don’t worry, I’ve been coming here for months
and I’m still alive,” chuckles Chohei Sato, chief of the
village council, as he rolls down the window and inhales
cheerfully. He pulls off the road, gets out of the car and
buries the dosimeter in the grass. The reading doubles
again.
Iitate is located 45km (28 miles) from the Fukushima Dai-ichi
nuclear power plant hit by a tsunami on March 11th this
year. In the mountains above the town, the forests are
turning the colour of autumn. But their beauty is deceptive.
Every time a gust of wind blows, Mr Sato says it shakes
invisible particles of radioactive caesium off the trees and
showers them over the village. Radiation levels in the hills
are so high that villagers dare not go near them. Mr Sato
cannot bury his father’s bones, which he keeps in an urn in
his abandoned farmhouse, because of the dangers of going up
the hill to the graveyard.
Iitate had the misfortune to be caught by a wind that
carried radioactive particles (including plutonium) much
farther than anybody initially expected after the nuclear
disaster. Almost all the 6,000 residents have been
evacuated, albeit belatedly, because it took the government
months to decide that some villages outside a 30km radius of
the plant warranted special attention. Now it offers an
extreme example of how difficult it will be to recover from
the disaster.
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