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Fukushima Directly After the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

 

Would you leave your home if you heard the nearby nuclear power plant was melting down?  How would you navigate your family’s safety and obligations to work? 7 years ago this month, on March 12th residents of Eastern Japan, were faced with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, the day after a massive earthquake and tsunami impacted their region.

KBCS has the story on Kaori Suzuki’s first-hand account of what it was like to live just 20 miles away from the exploded nuclear plant within the first month after the disasters.  Kaori went on to co-found the Mothers Radiation Lab and Tarachine Iwaki, offering resources and health wellness services to the Iwaki community 

 
Producers: Yuka Honda and Yuko Kodama (Special thanks to Fumi Tagata for her help with this story)