Izumi Nakano, a social worker for 50 years, survived the biggest earthquake Friday Japan's history, then did not perish under the ten-meter tsunami which then erased the East Coast and now has had to flee from radiation escaping from the plant in Fukushima. "We will keep fighting ', promises raising his right fist in the Cultural Center of Miharu, one of the 1,350 makeshift shelters to meet part of the 210,000 evacuees in 20 miles of the nuclear plant, damaged by the powerful earthquake. Nationwide, the number of people displaced by the disaster stands at around 600,000.
Located around the central atom, the village of Izumi Nakano, Futaba, was swept by the tsunami, which destroyed 90 percent of homes in three coastal districts. Scared, hurt, hungry and, above all, exhausted, arrived at the shelter on Saturday, after the Government extended the security perimeter around the plant after the explosion in reactor number 1. As refugees
war Accompanied by her husband, daughter and dog, 'one family', left home with nothing and left behind a life that does not know when you can recover. So the harder the triple tragedy that these days the Japanese experience: those who were not home fell above or the sea swallowed them, now face the threat of a radiation leak, or at best, bad life as if they were war refugees.
"There are no showers and only feed us rice balls Red Cross," complains a woman, sitting on the carpeted mats that one of the halls of the Cultural Center. Covered with a white cloth under the sign on characters of "Do not touch," his grand piano has been properly into a corner for the duration of stay of the evacuees. Something
do not know because the technical authorities of the central Fukushima desperately trying to cool two of its six nuclear reactors whose cooling systems have failed and can even explode if the temperature continues to rise. "The Government's response has been slow and we need accurate information to know what is happening," Seiji critical Inamoto, a worker in a food business has come to the shelter with his wife, son 18 and a handful of relatives. Huddled in blankets brought from home, everyone still forward to the alarming news about the disaster that constantly spits television.
To prevent being exposed to radiation, the police are taking to the residents of coastal areas near the center of Fukushima, and Tomioka, Futaba and Okuma, and transferring the wooded interior of the prefecture, surrounded by idyllic mountains truffles Rural houses, streams and farmland. Discipline
In Miharu Japan, a town of 18,000 inhabitants 50 km from the atomic plant, have enabled eleven shelters with a capacity to house two thousand evacuees. "We have a limited space of 281 seats and we had to divert some people to the centers of other cities' municipal official acknowledges Masatomo Watanabe, who heads a team of 13 subordinates. Boasting
good organization Japan, indicates that the prefecture is meeting the emergency plan to handle the evacuees. Some of them are undergoing medical checks to see if they have been affected by radiation, which has exceeded the allowable limits of 500 micro "sieverts" per hour and reached 882. As the sole remedy against radioactivity, are not developing iodine for thyroid cancer.
in Koriyama, bearing the scars of the quake on the facades of buildings, protected health with diving suits and gas masks discussed with radiation meters to children, parents and grandparents. They do it under tents that the wind waves on the esplanade of a car park between the incessant wail of ambulances that transport affected the adjoining health center.
Like a game, the smallest jump for joy when the detector finds no radioactive particles in your body. A major find it harder to find relief. "When you call to get tested, it is normal to worry about," shrugs an evacuee from Futaba that is moving in a hurry to a shelter after having been negative. Less
fate has befallen the twenty people that, at least officially, have been contaminated, the four workers seriously injured Saturday in an explosion of the reactor and another worker who died in a crane accident at the nuclear plant. They all survived the earthquake and tsunami, but have succumbed to the new disaster that looms over Japan radioactivity.
SOURCE: http://www.abc.es/
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