{"id":59,"date":"2013-02-25T16:17:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2013-02-25T16:17:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:17:30","slug":"guardian-fukushima-families-on-edge-of-meltdown-nobody-trusts-the-government-any-more-officials-afraid-of-triggering-an-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/guardian-fukushima-families-on-edge-of-meltdown-nobody-trusts-the-government-any-more-officials-afraid-of-triggering-an-exodus\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian: Fukushima families on edge of meltdown \u2014 \u201cNobody trusts the government any more\u201d \u2014 Officials \u201cafraid of triggering an exodus\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>After Fukushima: families on the edge of meltdown<\/em> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Each anniversary we will be thinking, \u201cIs this the year one of our daughters will get sick?\u201d\u2019 Kenji and Aiko Nomura with Sakura, 3, and 15-month-old Koto. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath, radiation levels in Koriyama spiked at 30 to 40 times higher than legal limits, contaminating the city with caesium and other long-life radionuclides for decades to come. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody trusts the government any more,\u201d says <big>[<\/big>restaurant&#8217;s owner Katsuko] Arima. She cites recent cases of official incompetence when supplies of beef, rice and vegetables declared safe by the authorities were found to be heavily contaminated. \u201cYou can only trust yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aiko and Kenji Nomura agree. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The government decreed that the radiation risk to health was \u201cminimal\u201d beyond a 30km radius around the plant and has provided no support to help people leave independently. Kenji says it is afraid of triggering an exodus that would impoverish the disaster-hit region even more. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cited: http:\/\/enenews.com\/guardian-fukushima-families-on-edge-of-meltdown-nobody-trusts-the-government-any-more-officials-afraid-of-triggering-an-exodus<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Fukushima: families on the edge of meltdown [&#8230;] \u2018Each anniversary we will be thinking, \u201cIs this the year one of our daughters will get sick?\u201d\u2019 Kenji and Aiko Nomura with Sakura, 3, and 15-month-old Koto. [&#8230;] In the aftermath, radiation levels in Koriyama spiked at 30 to 40 times higher than legal limits, contaminating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}