Monday
May232011
Japanese survivors of A-bombs victimized for second time, by Fukushima Daiichi's radioactivity
The Mainichi Daily News of Japan has reported, in an article entitled "Lives of A-bomb victims thrown into turmoil yet again by radiation," that scores of Hibakusha (survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945) residing in Fukushima have now been traumatized for a second time by radioactivity -- this time from a major nuclear power plant accident in their prefecture. (Note that Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps was hosted at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last August by a town councillor from Iitate, Mr. Sato, a long-time anti-nuclear activist working to shut down the Fukushima Daiichi and Daiini nuclear power plants).