Dörte Siedentopf on Fukushima nuclear disaster: ‘They haven’t learned anything from Chernobyl’
By arevamirpal::laprimavera
7 January 2012
(UPDATE: Second part of the translation is posted, translation done by the reader Florian Zschage.) (H/T to the readers who did the translation and the summary of the original German article on TAZ. Thank you.) What struck me about the article interviewing Dr. Dörte Siedentopf, other than the negative health effects on the residents, is the following:
- Damage from the nuclear accident will increase, not decrease, over time;
- Belarus got highly contaminated because the Soviet government induced artificial rain to fall on Belarus when the radioactive plume threatened Moscow;
- It took 10 years to resettle the residents, during which time they continued to live in the contaminated areas;
- When the Soviet system collapsed and the money ran out, Belarus declared the end of the accident, Chernobyl as something to be memorialized in a museum.
Well, Japan is well ahead of Belarus and Russia. They already want to memorialize the Fukushima accident by building a museum, “lest the memory of the accident fades away”. It doesn’t matter to them if their accident is still on-going. The following is the German-to-English translation of the original article “Ärztin mit sozialer Verantwortung: Der heiße Stein” by Viola:
