Fukushima

Five years ago Japan got it's super crisis. Three times. The strongest earthquake of its history, a ten meter high Tsunami and because of this the catastrophic incident the destroy of the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi.

Five years later and things are all but done and over.

Over 2000 deads in results of the disaster till today. 

In the Fukushima City the radiation exposure is still much higher then before. 

2010 it was 0,04 mikrovisert per hour. After the breakdown it went up to 2,74 in 2011 and is today on the level of 0,20. Munich has 0,12 these days, just to have something to compare.

After all 164 200 people had to be evacuated. Still about 99 800 cannot go back and most of them will never do in their lifetime. 

The structure of families have changed as a result too. Today around that whole area are living 14% less children, but 9% more old people. 

Of course another result is that tourist stay away. Not only around the Fukushima area (-65% less tourists). In all of Japan it was felt a -35% downfall of numbers. Thought these days it is better again and tourists are coming back. 

One of the biggest problems is that the agriculture lost a lot of potential and trust and of course fishing companies got into trouble. And as we remember, Tesco the owner told us 2013 that 300 metric tons radioactive contaminated water is going down the river into the ocean, each day and still this is going on. 

Depite the closing of the last active nuclear power reactor in Japan in 2012, they decided to open them again and in 2015 three are producing again, thought the electricity price went up 34 % compared to the time before the catasthrophe happend. 

Scary it is when we think about that. But another truth is, politic has help to create this and money is still the reason for all this and more. 

The fishes in the ocean have now a higher radiation exposure as it is healthy for them and us and animlas around Japan and mostly those who live in the water have been damaged in their Genetic but we are still discovering the results of long time. 

Have we learned about this? No we haven't. Money makes the world go round and so media have not spoken much about that, especially in the United states. While in Europe we got to know about that far earlier and more the truth about the whole thing, though Tesco the owner waited quite a very long time before the official reaction took place. As always it was and is a -hide all possible things- game.

May we be remind tomorrow and after that this can happen again and be worse and we already have been near that a several time since. Do we need that risk? Is that future?

I will also send out my thoughts for those who died and those who have been left over to stay alive and find a new way to survive and get on with life. 

Love & Light