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00:00:28I'll see you next time.
00:00:45How do you feel before you go there? It's your second time.
00:00:48This is the very first time.
00:00:50First time? Are you worried?
00:01:15More than two years have gone by.
00:01:22The negotiations in order to enter have been long and difficult.
00:01:29And now that we are finally here, with tickets in our hands, we all look a bit like children.
00:01:40Like those who used to come here, to admire the safety of Fukushima Daiichi's nuclear power plant.
00:01:47And this will be the 14-minute ride from J village to Fukushima Daiichi, which is 20 kilometers away from
00:01:57here.
00:02:09We'll see you next time.
00:02:09We'll see you next time.
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00:03:02We'll see you next time.
00:06:14Back at home, I realized that we have survived the largest earthquake ever recorded
00:06:19in Japan.
00:06:23Ninth degree on the Richter scale at the epicenter in the northeast of the country and felt as
00:06:29a magnitude of 7.4 in Tokyo.
00:06:35Then, the tsunami arrives.
00:06:42A tidal wave breaks over along 400 miles of the coast of Tohoku.
00:06:47In some places, it exceeds 30 meters and reaches up to six, seven kilometers inland.
00:06:54A whole region, beautiful, with its wooden, plastic, aluminum houses, gets invaded quickly
00:07:01and swallowed by water.
00:07:26It's hard to believe the first death tolls report so few known victims.
00:07:32It's hard to believe those who say that nuclear power plants are safe.
00:07:37The most serious situation is the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, one of the 19 facilities
00:07:44existing in the country, located 300 kilometers northeast of Tokyo.
00:07:49It's owned by TEPCO, one of the 10 electricity companies of its kind.
00:07:54With its six nuclear power reactors, the power plant is one of the most important nuclear facilities in the world
00:07:59and considered one of the safest nuclear stations, in spite of its 40 years.
00:08:05During the endless minutes of the earthquake, the power reactors in operation one, two, three, five, six, automatically stop
00:08:13and the operators activate the security procedures.
00:08:19The earthquake hits the plant hard, the high voltage mats fall and the power station is isolated from the national
00:08:27electric supply.
00:08:30Emergency diesel generators turn on automatically, providing electricity to the cooling systems, which have the task of reducing heat inside
00:08:38the power reactors once they have stopped working.
00:08:43Barely an hour after the earthquake, a wave of 14 meters devastates the nuclear power plant, crossing over the dam
00:08:51built for the protection of the nuclear plant against waves of six meters maximum height.
00:08:59In a few minutes, the water fills all of the technical rooms, damaging the emergency generators located in the underground
00:09:06basement.
00:09:10Two workers drown.
00:09:14Without electricity, all monitoring indicators are out of use.
00:09:19Nobody knows what is happening inside the reactors.
00:09:26The magnitude of the emergency is not clear.
00:09:30TEPCO's top managers are abroad to promote Japanese nuclear technology and the news broadcast by television is too contradictory to
00:09:37be true.
00:09:39I have to do something.
00:09:40I call the manager, but the phone and the internet aren't working anymore.
00:09:45To reactivate electricity in the control panels, the plant's director, Masao Yoshida,
00:09:50orders the workers to extract the batteries from their cars and sends others to buy batteries in the nearest supermarket.
00:09:57The workers succeed in restoring the electrical power of the panels in the control room, but the internal pressure indicators
00:10:03of the reactors reveal the situation in all its gravity.
00:10:07If they don't act immediately, three reactors may explode.
00:10:11In order to decrease pressure, you need to release the radioactive gas that has accumulated inside the reactors.
00:10:17But in order to do so, TEPCO must ask the Prime Minister for permission.
00:10:23Naoto Kan, who is also an engineer, gives the green light.
00:10:27The circuits do not have enough power to open the valves. Manual opening seems to be the only option.
00:10:33But the related procedures are not set out in the instruction manual.
00:10:51It's the first time that the Japanese government has declared a nuclear emergency, but we all remember the accident at
00:10:57the nuclear facility of Tokaimura
00:10:59in the Ibaraki Prefecture in 1999, where two workers were killed and about a hundred people were contaminated.
00:11:07Of course I remember it. Tokaimura.
00:11:12They gave the news of the accident three days later, and the death toll and injured only ten days later.
00:11:25Here in Tokyo, there have been neither significant damages nor any victims.
00:11:30People aren't panicking, and they start getting ready to spend the night in public places, offices, at friends' houses, or
00:11:38in the open air.
00:11:38Now it's 8 p.m. here.
00:11:40There's never been so many people at this time in this neighborhood.
00:11:45This is a popular neighborhood.
00:11:46Everyone is going to the gathering center with the order, the order, the basket, the food to eat.
00:11:58I don't know what to do.
00:12:01I can stay in Tokyo, where I will probably receive more news.
00:12:06No. It's better to try to get to Iwaki by car, to come close to the damaged nuclear power plant.
00:12:14Nothing. Impossible.
00:12:17The roads are blocked in the nuclear power plant's direction, and not vice versa.
00:12:22Perhaps a lot of people are trying to reach the north to obtain news of their relatives.
00:12:28Even the railway network is interrupted. The country is split in two.
00:12:33I have to go back to Tokyo and try to catch a plane to Akita.
00:12:38The only way to get to Fukushima is from the opposite side.
00:12:49Alarmed by TEPCO's long silence, Khan wants to understand clearly the gravity of the situation.
00:12:55He arrives at the nuclear disaster site.
00:12:58He takes charge, sending a team of workers to manually open the valves.
00:13:06Having evacuated the population within a radius of three kilometers, the controlled release of radioactive vapor seems to be the
00:13:13acceptable solution.
00:13:15People start to believe that the worst phase of the emergency is now over.
00:13:25But in order to understand what's happening, I needed to go back to my school days, revisit some physics, and
00:13:33the lessons on how a nuclear power plant works.
00:13:39Fukushima Daiichi's reactor type general electric model of 1978, when in operation is like an enormous pressure saucepan.
00:13:49The nucleus contains bars of fuel made of uranium.
00:13:53The fission of uranium nuclei produces radioactive atoms which continue to generate residual heat for days after the reactor's arrest.
00:14:00The heat in the reactor's core is generated by nuclear fission.
00:14:05Boiling water produces steam which goes directly to the turbines and rotates them to produce electricity.
00:14:13The condensed steam then goes back into the reactor.
00:14:17The extraction and replacement of the fuel is usually performed by means of an overhead crane acting between the reactor
00:14:24pool and the adjacent one.
00:14:26During this operation, the two pools are completely flooded.
00:14:30The transfer of fuel rods is performed underwater through a common gate that works like a valve.
00:14:39Keeping the fuel isolated from the environment and refrigerated at every stage is therefore a matter of fundamental security.
00:14:46And this is obtained through different containment barriers designed a bit like a matryoshka.
00:14:52The first barrier is the capsule of iron, the core of the reactor.
00:14:58The second barrier is the shell of reinforced concrete.
00:15:02The walls of the building are the last barrier between the reactor and the atmosphere.
00:15:13At 3.46pm on the 12th of March, cameras document a huge explosion that shatters the top of reactor building
00:15:21number one.
00:15:22And seriously injures four workers.
00:15:26Among the operators at Fukushima Daiichi and the watching world, panic escalates.
00:15:31Fortunately, the first reconnaissance shows only the top of the building has exploded.
00:15:37Not the reactor, which seems to be still intact.
00:15:43Not the reactor, which meant the air force was not as much as possible.
00:15:50The air force was not as possible.
00:15:53The air force appeared to be still in the air force.
00:15:54The air force has been reduced before the็็บ.
00:15:55The air force was the air force.
00:15:56The air force was not as possible.
00:15:59All the radio channels are playing funereal music.
00:16:03Not a good sign.
00:16:05Even when Hirohito was dying, the music was more cheerful.
00:16:11I drive without stopping until dawn, when I find myself in Kaisenona.
00:16:25The tsunami has spared only a few reinforced concrete buildings.
00:16:29The rest has been wiped out, wrung out, and regurgitated without any order or restraint.
00:16:39It has been passed three days.
00:16:42This is the situation of this area.
00:16:58Kaisenona is a city of about 60.000 inhabitants.
00:17:04It is the capital of the pesca of the tonne.
00:17:07One of the four capitales of Japan, of the pesca of the tonne.
00:17:10You see, now it is destroyed.
00:17:12Completely destroyed.
00:17:14Huh?
00:17:14The tsunami.
00:17:15The tsunami is coming.
00:17:17So please keep your attention.
00:17:22Is it coming from here?
00:17:23Yes, it is coming from here.
00:17:26But she doesn't run away.
00:17:29She stays there.
00:17:30Her husband is sick.
00:17:31He isn't able to get out of bed.
00:17:33And she has no intention of abandoning him here.
00:17:36The tsunami is fine.
00:17:39Look, that's not too.
00:17:45Here we go.
00:17:45We're in the world too.
00:17:45It's a Roman Olympics.
00:17:47Nice to meet you.
00:17:47On the Roman Olympics?
00:17:49From the recent years?
00:17:50Sorry, not 50 years ago.
00:17:51As long as you see, 60 years ago.
00:17:53Yes, 60 years ago.
00:17:55Since we had 60 years ago.
00:17:56What do you think?
00:17:59It's the captain of the Kano Tajo.
00:18:05Where was your house?
00:18:09That one.
00:18:10That's the captain of the Kano Tajo.
00:18:13The captain of the Kano Tajo are here.
00:18:27The captain of the Kano Tajo is the captain of the Kano Tajo.
00:18:43No one is screaming, nobody despairs, no one asks for help.
00:19:25The inhabitants seek to solve their problems, rather than questioning the nuclear emergency.
00:19:31Fukushima is still far away.
00:19:34In every sense.
00:19:39The pressure in the reactors increases again.
00:19:42They must be cooled and stabilised in order to avoid the worst possible outcome.
00:19:47Due to the lack of fresh water, the use of sea water seems to be the only solution.
00:19:53But it means the irreversible damage of all reactors.
00:19:57Masao Yoshida, director of the nuclear power plant, was the one to make the difficult decision.
00:20:02In direct violation of TEPCO's orders, which were in favour of saving the expensive reactors from the corrosive effects of
00:20:09salt.
00:20:13I didn't reach Fukushima.
00:20:18I came back here to Akita, and I'm afraid for the first time.
00:20:27Is it right to stay?
00:20:29I have a family in Italy.
00:20:31Five children.
00:20:32Is it right to risk it?
00:20:34I trust this government.
00:20:35I trust this government, and especially the prime minister.
00:20:37But the problem is, can this government trust TEPCO and the nuclear industry?
00:20:43Naoto is a simple and honest person who would never allow the contamination of his people.
00:20:48I decide to call him directly, taking advantage of our old friendship.
00:20:54But I can't reach him.
00:20:56When I cannot talk to him, or I have to address a delicate matter, I get in contact with his
00:21:02wife, Nabuko.
00:21:03Oh, it's PIO.
00:21:07Yes, PIO.
00:21:08Oh, PIO is a good place.
00:21:10How are you?
00:21:10Well, I'm a little tired of it.
00:21:14I'm from the company, and I'm from the wife, and I'm from the wife, and I'm from the wife.
00:21:18Go ahead and go, go.
00:21:20Everyone is here.
00:21:23Okay, okay.
00:21:24Yes, I'm sorry.
00:21:25If you don't know if you want to go back to your country,
00:21:28we don't know if you want to go back to your country.
00:21:29We don't have to go back here.
00:21:36Yes.
00:21:39We have to go back to the government and the government
00:21:44and the government and the government.
00:21:47But we don't know where to go.
00:21:53At the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant,
00:21:56they realize that the core of reactors one, two and three
00:21:59have already been damaged.
00:22:01In a desperate move, the government sends a team of specialized firemen
00:22:05in an attempt to curb the most severe situation,
00:22:08the one in the third reactor.
00:22:11The men have hardly arrived
00:22:13when a massive explosion destroys the whole upper part of the Building 3,
00:22:18also involving Building 4.
00:22:25Some of the embassies are stoking fear irresponsibly.
00:22:29Most of the foreign press exaggerates, distorts, omits, or often it invents fact.
00:22:38Americans minimize the accident.
00:22:40The French warn of an inevitable apocalypse.
00:22:44The reactors that are used in Fukushima and the rest of Japan
00:22:47are made in the United States,
00:22:49and the American industry intends to continue with their business enterprise.
00:22:54On the other hand, France would like to sell its state-of-the-art reactors,
00:22:58which they say are safe.
00:23:00The only official sources I know are the Japanese National Agency for Nuclear Safety,
00:23:06that is more similar to a censorship agency,
00:23:09and the International Agency for Atomic Energy.
00:23:13For atomic energy.
00:23:15The only thing that can help me understand is going directly to the power plant.
00:23:19The Japanese-style route is the third power plant.
00:23:21The first route is to move on.
00:23:22The actual transportation system is to move on.
00:23:27Cameras reveal a third powerful explosion in the Building of Reactor 2.
00:23:31The walls remain intact, but a part of the reactor suffers serious damage.
00:23:36TEPCO abandons all hope of saving the situation and considers the possibility of evacuating all
00:23:42its employees. Naoto Kan decides to go personally to the headquarters in Tokyo and forces the
00:23:49president Shimizu not to abandon the ship. Doing so would imply the uncontrolled meltdown of all
00:23:56reactors, thus putting the very existence of Japan at risk.
00:24:22You know it but you find it difficult to maintain a constant awareness
00:24:26that behind every broken window, every destroyed car and every upturned boat,
00:24:31there lies the story of a person, of a family, of an entire country.
00:24:48Here you have no peace if you know that a loved one was not accepted worthily in the afterworld and
00:24:54still wanders in a world which he is no longer part of.
00:25:00They watch over the bodies, wash them, dress them with care, put makeup on them.
00:25:07After choosing an auspicious day for the cremation, they get ready by placing their most prized
00:25:13possessions next to them. Finally proceeding to the right of Shikotsu, the delicate meticulous
00:25:20right of collecting the bones in the urns. It's such an intense moment.
00:25:35The Shikotsu ritual is celebrated also for pets.
00:25:57But the tsunami also caused the suspension of cremations for lack of fuel.
00:26:05It was necessary to resort to collective burials, which to the Japanese are considered as sad and
00:26:11offensive.
00:26:41The tsunami swept everything away, including the right to feel pain, to remember and to mourn the dead.
00:27:17At lunchtime, on the 16th of March, Emperor Akihito is speaking with a live broadcast.
00:27:25It's the first time that an emperor uses television to speak directly to the people.
00:27:34There are those who remember his father, Emperor Hirohito's dramatic speech on the radio announcing the end of the war.
00:27:40Now Japan is fighting for the life of its people, as it did back then.
00:27:48TEPCO, pressured by the government, takes its decision.
00:27:52About 50 men are left there to deal with the situation.
00:27:56They operate in extreme conditions.
00:28:00Separated from the rest of the world, contaminated by radiation, without any news from family members affected by the tsunami,
00:28:07they fight to cool reactors, restore electricity and security systems, often by means of luck.
00:28:19It's time to decide what to do, and in a hurry.
00:28:22The majority of my Italian and foreign colleagues have already left the country and moved to the south.
00:28:28Even if I wanted to go back.
00:28:30Tokyo airports are now closed or clogged.
00:28:32In case the situation worsened, I would feel safer here in the north.
00:28:37Protected by a mountain range rather than in Tokyo or Osaka, where the wind would propel the radioactive cloud.
00:28:45As for a possible speedy escape, from Makita, you can fly directly to Korea.
00:28:51Or by car, you can easily reach the island of Hokkaido.
00:28:54And from the capital city of Sapporo, you can get to the entire world.
00:29:01American drones during the aerial reconnaissance discover that the water in the spent fuel pool on top of reactor number
00:29:074 is evaporating.
00:29:09And the spent fuel rods, which have just been extracted, are still hot and are likely to be exposed to
00:29:14the air.
00:29:16Naoto Kan orders the army to use helicopters in order to dump water taken directly from the sea.
00:29:22A high level of water in the pool must be maintained at any cost.
00:29:29Unlike the reactor, there is no structure that can contain the fission.
00:29:34Flying over reactor number 4, the helicopters are exposed to excessive doses of radiation.
00:29:41And strong wind also prevents the drivers from performing their necessary maneuvers.
00:29:45The only alternative is the use of powerful water cannons at broad range, pointed directly at the pool.
00:29:52A maneuver which is defined by many as a desperate one.
00:29:59The third, I will say.
00:30:01In the last, the possible sea event in the first and third.
00:30:05The only alternative is the 50 Kilo terrains coming to Germany.
00:30:07I will request for many people's folks in the first place.
00:30:15In the last few years, the reason it's saying all around kiosk,
00:30:27With this brief intrusion, I don't run any risk.
00:30:31I just have to stay for a little while and not leave any part of my body uncovered.
00:31:03This is an internal road from Futaba, the last village to 4 km from the central.
00:31:10You see, there was no one yet passed from that day.
00:31:13Everything was left like that.
00:31:16People escaped.
00:31:24Earthquake, tsunami, nuclear fallout.
00:31:27This is the area that has undergone all three of them.
00:31:35The navigator is not going mad.
00:31:37It indicates roads that no longer exist.
00:31:43Here, we are reached 2 km from Fukushima central.
00:31:51That is the one that is taking care of Japan and the rest of the world.
00:32:01Here is the central.
00:32:04It is better to get away immediately, if they stop me.
00:32:07Thank you very much.
00:32:08Thank you very much.
00:32:10Thank you very much.
00:32:13Thank you very much.
00:32:19The situation seems to improve.
00:32:22The water level in the pool of reactor number 4 suddenly rises again and the level of radiation
00:32:27begins to fall.
00:32:29The reactors remain unapproachable, but the workers can go back to the control room without incurring
00:32:35any serious risks.
00:32:38At the end of March 2011, seawater is substituted with distilled water.
00:32:43However, the cooling circuit is no longer watertight.
00:32:47The use of seawater, in addition to the fresh water, stabilises the reactors, but results also
00:32:53in the release of more than 11,000 tonnes of radioactive water into the ocean, causing great concern amongst the
00:33:02international community.
00:33:04The accident is classified at the highest level of the INES scale.
00:33:09Most of the national media begin accusing the prime minister of managing the emergency irresponsibly.
00:33:22Before the accident, Naoto was in favour of nuclear energy.
00:33:28Now he has changed his point of view.
00:33:31Well, changing ideas in politics comes with a very high price.
00:33:37Not everyone wants to pay it.
00:33:46Naoto Kan tendered his resignation from his position as Japan's prime minister following the agreement with the opposition
00:33:52and after having obtained a series of incentives for the development of renewable energy.
00:33:57The director of Fukushima Daiichi's plan, Masao Yoshida, has been forced to resign from his position to be admitted to
00:34:04hospital
00:34:04and submitted to urgent medical treatments.
00:34:06The manager will be replaced with the new director, Takeshi Takahashi.
00:34:10Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda declared to the nation that the reactor would reach the cold shutdown state.
00:34:19Today, Japan closed down officially for necessary emergency maintenance, the last of its 54 still working nuclear reactors.
00:34:27The new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces the intention of going back to nuclear, the gradual reopening of the old
00:34:34power plants
00:34:34and the resuming of work on those still under construction.
00:34:37The government's decision causes various protests all over the country.
00:35:08In part two days in the schedule, where do you have no going back then?
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00:37:32As you know, on the morning of the 15th, I personally went to TEPCO's headquarters.
00:38:08The situation was tragic.
00:38:09It was at stake.
00:38:12We could not run the risk of contamination for who knows how long.
00:38:20Something had to be done, even if that meant putting our lives at risk.
00:38:26And this meant everyone.
00:38:28Us politicians, TEPCO's executives, the army, the fire brigade, the police, everyone.
00:38:49The dynamic of the meltdown was almost identical in all three damaged reactors.
00:38:56During the earthquake, the reactors shut down, but in the absence of cooling, water evaporated
00:39:02in the core.
00:39:03The fuel rods were then left exposed, quickly reaching a temperature of about 3,000 degrees
00:39:09Celsius, and thus melted, forming a kind of magma called corium, releasing large quantities
00:39:16of hydrogen, a highly explosive gas.
00:39:19The pressure in the pool and the reactor's capsule thus rocketed.
00:39:23And to prevent the reactor's explosion, the technicians were forced to expel radioactive
00:39:28gas into the atmosphere through the central chimney stack.
00:39:33But the gas seeped into the center of the building because of the many gaps caused by the earthquake.
00:39:39The hydrogen reacted violently with the oxygen in the air, and the explosion destroyed the
00:39:45top part of buildings one, three, and four, apparently without damaging the reactors.
00:39:51During the explosion, there were large releases of radioactive materials which, carried by the wind,
00:39:57settled on the sea, lands, and cities of the Fukushima district.
00:40:27So, I would like to thank you to all of you.
00:40:33Apologies play an important role in Japan's culture.
00:40:37Also, TEPCO's president, Shimetsu, has apologized.
00:40:41But the apologies have not been appreciated.
00:40:44As often is the case in Japan, it was just a formal apology and not a taking of responsibility.
00:40:51Indeed, TEPCO deemed the incident as sotagai, which means unpredictable.
00:40:56Because, in their opinion, nobody could have predicted a 14-meter-high tsunami.
00:41:48How can you live in the fear that your child might get cancer, leukemia?
00:41:53For example, because you bought an affected milk carton.
00:41:58Japanese people, left alone, organized themselves alone.
00:42:03New associations, solidarity groups, self-managed initiatives are soon born.
00:42:09Full-body screening and food analysis are carried out autonomously.
00:42:13In some private houses, domestic markets are organized at the weekend.
00:42:18Moms from that area come together to buy products from distant crops.
00:42:22From provinces that are considered to be safe.
00:42:26Also, because online commerce is dramatically growing, and with it, scams.
00:42:36In a country where citizens were used to leaving their goods unattended on the streets,
00:42:40where shoppers left money in exchange for produce, people have lost their trust.
00:42:46Especially in the authorities.
00:42:47This is the most serious and hidden collateral damage produced by Fukushima's accident.
00:42:54The disappearance of that harmony, that politeness, and that equilibrium that Japanese people call wa.
00:43:03Not to mention deaths caused by broken hearts, by depression, by stress.
00:43:08And about suicide committed in a situation of desperation or from mere calculation.
00:43:13Because in Japan, insurance pays, and also well, in cases of suicide.
00:43:18One is concerned that people of the bureaucrat are,
00:43:23and they say to me,
00:43:25let's go away from this world,
00:43:26they say to me,
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00:43:54Kimberly ๆธใใฃใ meant
00:44:00Fukushima is an entirely domestic tragedy.
00:44:03It happened in a time of peace, while Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tragedies
00:44:08caused by a foreign force which put World War Two to an end.
00:44:46The Japanese people came out of the tragedy defeated, but strengthened in their spirit.
00:44:55Traditionally, the Japanese respect winners, and do not seek revenge if victory was obtained honestly.
00:45:03Whether they are forces of nature, such as tsunamis or earthquakes,
00:45:08or whether they are valiant men like General Douglas MacArthur,
00:45:11they try to imitate them, and then, if possible, to overcome them.
00:45:21But radiation has no form, has no smell, does not make any sound.
00:45:27It's an invisible, sneaky enemy.
00:45:31And to fight it will take at least 40 years.
00:45:34Yes, there are a lot of problems.
00:45:37Yes, there are a lot of problems that are already made.
00:45:38So, the leftover waste of power is nedenism.
00:45:41It is a big deal the debris under the debris.
00:45:42This is particularly, the most part of the other people,
00:45:47it has been damaged now.
00:45:51On the other hand, the windmills were blocked.
00:45:56If we have a plan, today, with the want of death.
00:46:01My question is,
00:46:04This is a problem with the water that has a large amount of water.
00:46:12As you can see, there is a lot of tanks.
00:46:17However, there is still a lot of water that has increased.
00:46:20so we are working on this building.
00:46:26This is actually the for example of the Euh
00:46:28This is the first one of the materials we use.
00:46:30However, there are about 1500mph of electricity.
00:46:37This is the one that is located in the top of the building.
00:46:40The material is used to use the tool to put in a big tank.
00:46:50The structure is a big thing that we need to put into the material material.
00:46:55The structure is a big thing that we put in the top of the top of the top.
00:47:01This is a base of the base material material.
00:47:06It's here to keep the right way to move to the top of the top.
00:47:13The base material material is used to keep the base material material.
00:47:30and an eternity to dispose. They were talking about this in Onkalo in Finland. The Finnish
00:47:38government has decided to bury 4,500 tons of nuclear waste which comes from its nuclear plants
00:47:44in a complex system of underground catacombs designed to last at least 100,000 years.
00:48:26There is another kind of repository linked to nuclear energy and it is an outdoor repository.
00:48:37It is the one for the hinansha, the nuclear power refugees.
00:48:50There were supposed to be a few hundred people, then thousands of people, then hundreds of
00:48:57thousands of people. There are people that have had to abandon their homes, their land,
00:49:07their roots, maybe forever, and are forced to live in these temporary houses,
00:49:12a nightmare almost worse than radiation.
00:49:22This is what happened to my friend Yoshida and to his family.
00:49:36I want to go back to the hospital, but I haven't been able to go back to the hospital.
00:49:44I don't know if I can't understand the results of the treatment after the treatment.
00:49:51I think that's what I think.
00:50:53Asami is a young and brave freelance journalist who from the very first days strived to understand
00:51:00how the situation really was.
00:51:02She is the one who accompanied us more than once in the no-go zone and she is the one
00:51:07who
00:51:07introduces us to Matsumoto, a local boss who provides workforce for TEPCO and has agreed
00:51:13to hide us in his car to pass through the ever-increasing controls.
00:51:38If during the first days of the emergency entering the forbidden zone was discouraged, now entering
00:51:45the exclusion zone is severely prohibited.
00:51:49But we can't stop.
00:51:50We decide altogether to violate the ban.
00:51:53We are convinced that in such cases, the journalists not only have a right to, but must do so.
00:52:01Also, because the forbidden zone exerts a special, almost perverse attraction.
00:52:07There is still the presence of life, but a life that smells of death.
00:52:26In the first days of May, after two months of guilty forgetfulness, the government has issued
00:52:32its cruel verdict.
00:52:34For first-class domestic animals, cats, dogs, rabbits, hamsters, the owners can now decide
00:52:41to go and get them.
00:52:43And if they have survived, take them to specialized centers where they will be checked before being
00:52:49given back, who knows when, to their rightful owners.
00:53:20For all the other animals, pigs, cows,
00:53:22cows, poultry, sheep, horses.
00:53:25There is what Japanese media call, inaccurately, sweet death.
00:53:32The government has decided that they should be given lethal injections.
00:53:36But before someone decides who will perform this task, these poor animals, by now abandoned,
00:53:43die one after the other of starvation amidst excruciating suffering.
00:53:48And they become useless compost for a now useless land.
00:53:53Look, this is the museum of horrors, practically.
00:53:57These are all the carcasses of the mucca, still here for 2-3 months.
00:54:02And in the background, this group, who is trying to survive disperatively,
00:54:07the mucca, still here for the mucca, still here for the mucca.
00:54:08And they are eating, I don't know what they are eating.
00:54:15They are also eating the mucca, the mucca.
00:54:20The mucca that is eating among them.
00:54:33The government has decided that places which show values above one micro sievert per hour
00:54:38are unfit for habitation.
00:54:41This is the limit that sets the boundary of the no-go zone,
00:54:44which previously corresponded to an area of a 20 kilometer radius from the nuclear plant.
00:54:50In a second moment, the boundaries were reset based on contamination levels.
00:54:57But without taking hot spots into account.
00:55:01They are spread all over, even beyond the limit of 20 kilometers.
00:55:06And they often mark very high values, which are incompatible with human life.
00:55:123, 2, 1, 0.
00:55:16Over.
00:55:27Over.
00:55:30Punk.
00:55:30igioul Xander
00:55:30Dukes 2,
00:55:330. T 2,
00:55:47Metro
00:55:48By
00:55:48Can
00:55:49U
00:55:49O
00:55:55Go
00:55:55I don't know.
00:56:05The bus is on the way, but the bus is not to be in the way.
00:56:24They've got a bus to go.
00:56:26There's a bus to go.
00:56:49They are some of the displaced persons, the house owners.
00:56:53The government has granted them one hour in which they are allowed to
00:56:57enter their house and fetch their most important treasured possessions
00:57:01which they have left behind in the emergency escape.
00:57:11Also the hospital in Futaba was quickly abandoned.
00:57:27They were sent to the hospital and sent them to the hospital.
00:57:34However, in the report, many people died in the hospital.
00:57:42If I remember, 14 people died.
00:57:54Not everyone has obeyed the order to abandon the forbidden zone.
00:57:58Some, like Naoko Takahara and his family, have decided to stay in their home in Naraba.
00:58:05His mother is 94 years old.
00:58:07She is very fragile and has not left her bed.
00:58:15She is a person.
00:58:18Hello.
00:58:19She is Pio-san.
00:58:21Hello.
00:58:22She is from Italy.
00:58:24She is from Italy.
00:58:26She is from Italy.
00:58:28Yes.
00:58:30Transporting her to another place would probably have caused her to die from a broken heart.
00:58:35This happens too often among the displaced.
00:58:41Unfortunately, the situation is precipitating within the interdelt zone.
00:58:46It is not like the first days when we talked about the Japanese honestness.
00:58:50Unfortunately, in the last few times, the situation is precipitated.
00:58:54In addition to the fires in the house, even all the bankers begin to be damaged.
00:58:59Here we are in one of these open supermarkets that were always open.
00:59:04This is the machine of the bankers.
00:59:10This is completely broken.
00:59:23It is not like the regime.
00:59:24One of these open supermarkets.
00:59:24This is the machine of the bankers.
00:59:25One of them cheeses to the bankers.
00:59:25We are in a place where we come from here.
00:59:26The adults are in a place where they are all.
00:59:27The children are in the house.
00:59:27Not enough.
00:59:27No, no.
00:59:28Yes, not enough.
00:59:33One of them were looking at the unknown.
00:59:33In the last few years of the bankers, there were a five-year-old house in thegili house?
00:59:34The mother- converted house in the house where they put their own home in the house.
00:59:36It was a little child.
00:59:37It's 27 years old.
00:59:40It's the beginning of the season.
00:59:43It's the beginning of the season.
00:59:50It's the beginning of the season.
01:00:21Maza Yoshida, Fukushima's nuclear power plant's brave director, dies worn out by an incurable illness.
01:00:29With his decision to disobey Tetko by injecting seawater into the reactor,
01:00:35he has de facto saved the country.
01:01:32The End
01:01:34Union was becoming increasingly strong and the world was divided into two blocks, the United
01:01:40States Department of Defense secretly carried out an experiment, its code name being Castle Bravo.
01:01:47This experiment was a nuclear test, consisting in the explosion of a hydrogen bomb.
01:01:56American scientists made a mistake in their calculations, underestimating the power of the
01:02:02explosion, which was three times stronger than expected. The Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryumaru
01:02:08was in the surrounding waters and was hit by the radioactive fallout.
01:02:17The 23 fishermen had to be hospitalized immediately. Kuboyama Aikichi, the Marconi
01:02:24operator aboard the vessel, died a few months later from acute radiation syndrome. Radio and television
01:02:31interrupted their broadcast to spread the news. Traces of radioactivity were found in tuna fished in the
01:02:38Pacific Ocean, and this forced the culprits to come out in the open and confess the truth.
01:02:45In little time, because of fear of radiation, panic spread. From that moment on, the people of Japan
01:02:51have been totally forthright in rejecting nuclear energy. The American government, concerned about
01:02:57the spread of anti-American and anti-nuclear sentiment in Japan, a country it considered a military and
01:03:03economic base of great importance, took appropriate measures by involving all Japanese communications
01:03:09media using words such as peace, justice and security for the promotion of nuclear energy.
01:03:20Shoriki Matsutaro, a war criminal suddenly reinstated by the Americans, and who in the meantime had become
01:03:26a powerful lobbyist and media tycoon, played a very important role. He was a great admirer of American
01:03:34culture, and he was convinced that the nation's economic prosperity depended on the friendship with
01:03:40the US. From the columns of the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, and from his own private TV channel,
01:03:47Nippon Television, he launched a powerful and effective pro-nuclear campaign. In a few years,
01:03:53he succeeded in defeating the anti-nuclear movement in his country, and in persuading the majority of
01:03:59citizens that embracing nuclear power was not only a wise, but rather an indispensable choice.
01:04:05In 1954, US President Eisenhower carried out the program Atoms for Peace to sweep away the memory
01:04:12of the bombing of Japan, and after only two years following the Daigo Fukuryumaru incident, a symposium
01:04:19on nuclear energy for civil purposes was organized and took place symbolically in Hiroshima. Matsutaro was
01:04:26chosen as the president of the new commission for atomic energy. The construction of the country's first
01:04:33nuclear power plant was soon announced. Thus it was that the country which would probably have been
01:04:41the last in the world to espouse nuclear energy became one of its main and most convinced supporters.
01:04:48the ื
01:05:16The nuclear gypsies, the nuclear
01:05:20power plant's seasonal workers number in the thousands, and they are immediately recognizable.
01:05:25They seem distracted, almost absent, but in reality they are looking at you.
01:05:30They make you perceive that they have something to say.
01:05:33And they do, if you go to visit them in small taverns in the neighborhood of the nuclear power plant.
01:05:39They are paid three or four hundred dollars a day to be contaminated.
01:05:44Although, after the agency and the contractors get their part, very little ends up in their own pockets.
01:05:49In Fukushima, they represent almost 90% of the workforce, and they withstand most of the radiation.
01:05:57There are those who, in order to earn more, fake the dosimeters, or take up double shifts using different names.
01:06:05A sacrifice prompted by despair, by necessity of making ends meet at any cost.
01:06:11Apparently, it's a tradition.
01:06:13I was told about it by Kenji Eguchi, a photographer who became famous in the 70s for his reportages inside
01:06:21Japanese nuclear power plants.
01:06:23So, yes, it was ugly.
01:06:23Four o'clock in the morning, it was a matter of ten times.
01:06:30It was the first time.
01:06:31To be smart, it was a big deal, and then, it took the picture of the crime in the future.
01:06:35Because the nuclear power plant is using the air-of-paste-ness.
01:06:46And so, it was a big deal, if you had no space for the Nered quan.
01:06:49It's a situation that we can't create.
01:06:51So, what do we do?
01:06:53It's going to be on the outside.
01:06:55This is no responsibility.
01:06:57It's not just energy.
01:07:02It's not just energy.
01:07:03It's not money.
01:07:19We cannot support the continued operation of these plants.
01:07:23And my boss said to me,
01:07:25well, it can't be that bad, Dale.
01:07:30And keep in mind that if we have to shut down all of these Mark I plants,
01:07:36it will probably mean the end of GE's nuclear business forever.
01:07:45Please never open the windows.
01:07:48Please do not take any photographs of the video film.
01:07:54This building, almost all the window glasses were shattered
01:08:00by the hydrogen explosion of the unit number one.
01:08:04And the wrecked building is heavily damaged.
01:08:08So, it has a covering over the building.
01:08:25I am convinced that the experts, the real insiders knew it.
01:08:33But no one, especially Tetko, wanted to use the word meltdown.
01:08:42Damage to the reactors.
01:08:43Well, they played with words.
01:08:47Played for two months.
01:08:51Then, finally, in May, they used the right one.
01:08:58Reactor two's building is the only one still in one piece.
01:09:02But it's the source of the most dangerous radioactive leakage.
01:09:09The explosion that happened inside the building damaged the base of the reactor,
01:09:13causing the flood of various rooms and underground conduits.
01:09:18Every day, hundreds of tons of radioactive water spill into the ocean.
01:09:23Now, there are no ideas.
01:09:29How many people can do this now?
01:09:31We can't find anything.
01:09:32We can't find anything like that.
01:09:36We can't find anything else.
01:09:41We can't find anything else.
01:09:52We now know for sure that the core made a hole in the metallic base of the cylinder
01:10:00and came out completely.
01:10:05Everything is written here in the report from the Government Investigation Committee.
01:10:12Because of the radiation, no one, not even the robots, can approach close enough to understand
01:10:18how much concrete separates the corium from the ground and the aquifers.
01:10:43The cisterns that collect the hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive liquids are no longer
01:10:48sufficient.
01:10:52Leaks everywhere infiltrate the ground.
01:10:56Some argue that it would be best to throw everything overboard because fishing in the area has already
01:11:01been compromised and the Pacific Ocean is so big.
01:11:08But nobody really knows what the real long-term effects will be.
01:11:13The radioactive substances infiltrate the food chain and polarize on the top, where we stand
01:11:21with our debates and our fears.
01:11:25The machines and the vehicles and the tanks that are washed away are still left in this
01:11:33area.
01:11:33And at the time of the disaster, the tsunami height hit this area of the 15 meter high.
01:11:43The building on the right-hand side was heavily damaged by the tsunami.
01:11:49And when the earthquake occurred, we did not have that temporary cycle, so this area had a direct
01:11:57hit by the tsunami.
01:12:20That information later supplied by workers confessed by the executives, and then confirmed through concrete
01:12:27examples in the 641 pages of the Kurokawa report, talks about a man-caused catastrophe.
01:12:35Everything but Sotagai.
01:13:03He was a member.
01:13:07Stay on the left side, the car is coming!
01:13:21Now we are going to see the new structure near the reactor number 4.
01:13:28We were able to convince them that they didn't want to go down and we are going to see it.
01:13:34Stay on the left side of the street, they do not move to the right.
01:13:44The Kurakawa report shows that the direct causes of the accident were all foreseeable prior to March 11, 2011.
01:13:54Tevko was too quick to cite the tsunami as the cause of the nuclear accident and deny that the earthquake
01:13:59caused any damage.
01:14:01The direct intervention by the Kante, including Prime Minister Kahn's visit to the Fukushima Daiichi plant,
01:14:08disrupted the chain of command and brought disorder to an already dire situation at the site.
01:14:16The accident was the result of collusion between the government, the regulators and TEPCO, and the lack of governance by
01:14:23said parties.
01:14:27With their behavior, they have betrayed the right of Japan to be safe from nuclear risks.
01:14:34.
01:14:35.
01:14:38.
01:14:38I'm going to get you!
01:14:41I'm going to get you!
01:14:42You're not doing anything!
01:14:44I'm not doing anything!
01:14:46I'm going to get you!
01:14:48Are you going to get me?
01:14:51Don't you!
01:14:52We're going to get you!
01:15:08I'm going to get you!
01:15:13There are some differences in your office!
01:15:15It became an appointment,
01:15:17this is the fourth time that the Japanese of Tokyo
01:15:20Who Weston is here
01:15:21to call them,
01:15:23before the Prime Minister
01:15:26to see it in a very pacific way
01:15:29and more creative in their opposition
01:15:32to nuclear, especially their opposition to the reopening,
01:15:36to the re-activation of nuclear nuclear centrales
01:15:40already decided by the Japanese government,
01:15:42but not yet, in fact, acted.
01:16:02We shall no longer prosecute.
01:16:05Everybody is guilty, no one is guilty, as in war.
01:16:09If there is no guilt, there is no responsibility,
01:16:13and there is no sin if there is no repentance.
01:16:17So, this place should be good enough.
01:16:20So, please stay closer to each other.
01:16:22Now we are in front of the reactor number 4.
01:16:27The radiation is still very high,
01:16:29more than 1.500 micron-sieverts.
01:16:33If something happened, it would be like an apocalypse.
01:16:37I will leave it in the middle.
01:16:40Meanwhile, the real risk is to leave these rods
01:16:44where they are now, on the roof of a building.
01:16:47Right before the incident, a routine maintenance
01:16:50which consists of the replacement of the spent fuel
01:16:55was taking place at reactor 4.
01:16:58To perform this maintenance,
01:16:59you have to flood the room above the reactor
01:17:03so that the water level is even
01:17:06with that of the pool that contains the new fuel.
01:17:11When the cooling system stopped working,
01:17:13in the room above the reactor 4,
01:17:16there was only water.
01:17:17while in the beside pool,
01:17:20there were all the fuel rods incandescent,
01:17:23which made the water in the pool boil.
01:17:27If the fuel had been left uncovered,
01:17:30there would be yet another meltdown occurring,
01:17:34but this time, outdoors.
01:17:37Had it happened,
01:17:38the consequences would have been devastating.
01:17:41Tokyo would have been totally destroyed.
01:18:24The reason why this meltdown didn't actually happen
01:18:29has remained a mystery for a long time.
01:18:31It was only after several months that we got to understand it,
01:18:36thanks to the work of the Commission of Inquiry.
01:18:40Due to pressure increase in the reactor pool,
01:18:44the gate bulb that separates the reactor pool
01:18:47from the fuel storage pool broke down,
01:18:51causing the water to pour out into the adjacent fuel storage pool.
01:18:56Had the gate not broken,
01:18:59the pool water would have continued to evaporate,
01:19:03thereby causing the meltdown within a very short time.
01:19:08Tokyo is safe by chance.
01:19:36You realized that the hospital came out
01:19:39for a long time and stopped working in a global war.
01:19:40The Entrevalley
01:19:40Thank you very much.
01:20:18The myth of nuclear energy, of it being economic, safe, and clean, has been swept away.
01:20:27This disaster has forced Japan to face up to a question that many other countries have already dealt with.
01:20:38Nobuko was right.
01:20:40In the face of Fukushima, we are all Japanese.
01:21:00The increasing global energy demand is saying that the path to renewable energies is important.
01:21:06But it is not enough in itself.
01:21:15While the dream of nuclear fusion, of an infinite energy, clean energy for all, is still there waiting for us,
01:21:22at the other side of history, Fukushima's heroes were not enough.
01:21:29A bigger disaster has been avoided because a gate valve broke.
01:21:36We have been spared because, miraculously, something in the country of technology did not work.
01:21:59A bigger disaster has been avoided.
01:22:01It has been a very nice project in the world, but it is still there waiting for us.
01:22:02It is still there waiting for us, and it is still there waiting for us.
01:22:05It is still there waiting for us to be able to take us to take us to take us to
01:22:12take us to take us to take us.
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