{"id":295,"date":"2011-08-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2024-04-24T13:49:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:49:39","slug":"cbs-60-minutes-fukushima-radiating-unspeakable-reality-will-impact-humanity-61001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/asia\/cbs-60-minutes-fukushima-radiating-unspeakable-reality-will-impact-humanity-61001\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC 60 Minutes \u2013 Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone: \u2018Unspeakable\u2019 Reality \u2018Will Impact All Of Humanity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NBC exposes the \u201cunspeakable\u201d realities of the Japanese catastrophe in its 60 Minutes program Sunday night during which leading nuclear scientist Dr. Michio Kaku said radiation from Fukushima will impact of all of humanity.<\/h3>\n

The Examiner<\/strong><\/a>
\nAugust 16, 2011<\/p>\n

NBC exposes extreme Fukushima radiation human rights violations while U.S. media remains silent.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s\u00a0 NBC <\/em>exposed the \u201cunspeakable\u201d realities of the Japanese catastrophe in its 60 Minutes<\/a><\/em> program<\/a>\u00a0Sunday night\u00a0during which leading nuclear scientist Dr. Michio Kaku said radiation from Fukushima will impact of all of humanity. The nuclear energy power industry violation of the right to health is apparent throughout the new Australian report.<\/p>\n

Watch: NBC 60 Minutes Special On The Fukushima Nuclear Fallout<\/h3>\n

\u201cIn fact the whole world will be exposed from the radiation from Fukushima,\u201d Dr. Kaku told\u00a0NBC<\/em> reporter Liz Hayes.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are already getting radiation from Fukushima,\u201d Dr. Kaku said.<\/p>\n

Just as Australia\u2019s\u00a0SBS<\/em>\u00a0exposed in depth the reality of the 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico catastrophe<\/a>\u00a0unlike any U.S. mainstream news station, Sunday, Australia\u2019s NBC has now<\/em>\u00a0exposed in depth the Fukushima catastrophe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fukushima crisis is far from over. The crippled nuclear power plant is still leaking; and, judging from Chernobyl,<\/a><\/strong> recovery will not be measured in years, more like centuries,\u201d reported the Australian presenter Liz Hayes.<\/p>\n

Best known in Australia for reporting on\u00a060 Minutes<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Hayes is also known as former co-host of Australia\u2019s Today<\/a>, <\/em>a position she\u00a0held by popular demand for a decade.<\/p>\n

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From The 60 Minutes Blog<\/h3>\n

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Liz Hayes From NBC TV Show 60 Minutes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Liz Hayes: Fallout<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chernobyl is about three-and-a-half hour\u2019s drive from Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine, a country still carrying the scars of a human and environmental catastrophe.<\/p>\n

In April, 1986, a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant exploded, ironically during a safety test. What followed affected the world. A massive plume of smoke and a cloud of radiated particles swept across Europe and around the globe.<\/p>\n

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Frank was our radiation expert, because after Chernobyl we travelled to Japan and the contaminated territory of Fukushima.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s nuclear disaster in Fukushima is ongoing. There is an exclusion zone and thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes.<\/p>\n

These are not earthquake or tsunami victims. These are radiation refugees \u2013 people who miraculously survived the horrors of that dreadful natural disaster in March, only to be made homeless by the meltdown of nuclear reactors in their region.<\/p>\n

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Much of the region is rural and deceptively peaceful. A Geiger counter the only indication radiation, the invisible enemy, is present.<\/p>\n

The human face of this dreadful situation can be seen in shelters in public buildings. It\u2019s where you\u2019ll find families, old and young, struggling to retrieve their lives \u2013 a near impossibility when all you have is a cardboard box to mark out your spot, your home.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how Japan will recover, and how these refugees will survive. Like Chernobyl, Fukushima could well become a dead zone, where no one will ever be able to return.<\/p>\n

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Read The Entire Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As Hayes traveled through now deserted areas of rubble, that were once houses, toward Fukushima, the silence was shattered by the beeping of deadly gamma radiation fallout 40 kilometers from the crippled nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n

\u201cGamma radiation is a stronger form of radiation and will go through most things apart from lead,\u201d warned Frank Jackson, refusing to to drive Hayes any further.<\/p>\n

Hayes stated after the Fukushima assignment<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cWhen I realised my only safety devices on my latest assignment were a couple of Geiger counters, some pretty flimsy pieces of protective clothing and a burly bloke named Frank, I must say I feared this was one of those times when the risks didn\u2019t add up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Introducing Dr. Kaku on the Fukushima\u00a060 Minutes <\/em>program,\u00a0<\/em>Hayes said, \u201cIf you thought nuclear power had been averted in Japan, then meet physicist Michio Kaku.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Kaku told Hayes, \u201cIf you\u2019ve been exposed to Cesium because you\u2019re a nuclear power worker, even after your long dead and buried, your grave site will be radioactive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour great grand kids can come to your grave site with a Geiger counter and see that great granddaddy still has radiation at his grave site.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unimaginable humanitarian catastrophe: Nuclear refugees<\/strong><\/p>\n

So far, over 135,000 Japanese people have been forced to evacuate according to Hayes.<\/p>\n

Riding toward Fukushima, through piles of rubble for stretches where homes once stood, documented in NBC<\/em> \u00a0program, Hayes said,\u00a0\u201cStreets and towns and villages are deserted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd locals have been told their food and water may be contaminated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stopping along the way, the Geiger showed that a head of cabbage registered as much radiation as an X-ray.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo every time you have a cabbage, you have an X-ray,\u201d said Hayes.<\/p>\n

Radiation refugees by the thousands, wearing masks, live in cardboard shelters, sleeping on the floors of public buildings, with few possessions and little to no privacy, as Hayes saw first-hand and was documented by NBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have gone to a lot of trouble to make cardboard box into their home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many Japanese people fear their country will never fully recover.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you think you\u2019ll ever be able to take food, water and air you breathe for granted again?\u201d Hayes asked Chia Maxamoto.<\/p>\n

\u201cAh, knowingly? I don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Kaku asserted about the Japanese people, \u201cThese are guinea pigs, absolute human guinea pigs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chernobyl plant and people still crippled and crippling<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hayes of NBC<\/em>\u00a0went to Chernobyl to document the scene there that is still \u201cincredibly radioactive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a terrible reminder of the horrors<\/a> those rescue workers faced of not just a fire, but an invisible enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n

With what she called her \u201ctrusty producer, Phil Goyen, and crew, Scott Morelli and David Ballment, in toe,\u201d Hayes \u201cheaded into the exclusion zone of Chernobyl, the scene of the world\u2019s worst nuclear disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hayes wrote about the Chernobyl dead zone, \u201cwhere remnants of lives once lived can be seen everywhere. Homes and schools and playgrounds frozen in time from the day workers and their families were ordered out, never to return.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe entered a hospital where the first fire fighters to attend the exploding nuclear plant were taken. Their uniforms are still in the basement, and still highly radioactive.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said that entering the radiation hospital was a moment she will never forget, furthering, \u201cFor the first time I had a sense of the fear and horror those rescue workers must have felt. A terrible death from something they couldn\u2019t see or touch or smell, but certainly felt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Children born years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster still develop cancer from it, as documented by NBC <\/em>when Hayes was\u00a0at Kievis Radiation Hospital built specifically for Chernobyl victims, some of whom Hayes interviewed.<\/p>\n

These children are \u201cbattling cancer and other illnesses believed to be caused by the contamination,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Children over 32 miles from Fukushima ground zero are already suffering<\/a>\u00a0fatigue, diarrhea, and nosebleeds<\/a>, the three\u00a0most common of eight radiation sickness signs<\/a>, the three\u00a0in the earliest stage of the disease. Five hundred Fukushima children already have radiation in their thyroids.<\/p>\n

Explaining that 5,000 tons of Boric acid, concrete and sand were used to bury Chernobyl\u2019s reactor, Dr. Kaku added,\u00a0\u201cIt took years to do this and created a sarcophagus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all have Chernobyl radiation in our bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the Chernobyl power plant in the background, Hayes said there \u201cnow a mere band aid over a molten core that is still hot and some still fear is still melting.\u201d<\/p>\n

A new sarcophagus has to built because the original one is breaking down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chernobyl nuclear disaster is still far from over,\u201d said Hayes, reporting that to this day, there is still a 30 kilometer exclusion zone around the nuclear energy plant.<\/p>\n

Since 1986, over 5 million people have been affected around Chernobyl according to scientist Iryna Lubunska, interviewed by Hayes.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things I feel I should know now is where a nuclear reactor is in any country, anywhere in the world, because it might affect me even if I don\u2019t live in that country,\u201d said Hayes.<\/p>\n

Today, people as far away as in England are still being affected by Chernobyl.<\/p>\n

Fukushima radiation is now combined in the U.S. with toxic radioactive tritium leaking from three-quarters of United States nuclear power plants<\/a>, radiation from fracking, and radiation from the 2010 BP Gulf oil catastrophe.<\/p>\n

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Although a tight lid on Fukushima fallout information is keeping Americans in harms way after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a secret pact with Japan<\/a>\u00a0to continue importing its untested food, and government agreed to downplay the fallout lethality, the nuclear energy silent killer continues devouring its victims, now and will for generations, as NBC<\/em> documented.<\/p>\n

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