Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2023

Posted: 13th March 2023

A new series of videos, “Voices of Nuclear Victims”, will deliver firsthand accounts from ordinary people. The first narrative belongs to Akiko Morimatsu, forced to give her children “poisoned water” after it was contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011. We are already seeing cancers in Japan resulting from Fukushima, yet there has never been an independent cancer study around nuclear plants in the US, the country with the most nuclear reactors. Why not?

Fukushima survivors firsthand

Akiko Morimatsu, a mother of two, heard about the Fukushima nuclear disaster from news reports. But her area was not evacuated. Still breast-feeding her youngest, she learned that drinking water in Tokyo - even further way from the disaster - was radiologically contaminated. She knew then that her breast milk and their drinking water must be, too, and that she and her children were being involuntarily exposed. READ MORE

What are they afraid of finding?

The US is eager to subsidize both old and new reactors but won’t fund a cancer study that would assess their harm, especially to children. The excuses that such studies are too expensive or premature ring hollow to Beyond Nuclear radiation and health hazard specialist, Cindy Folkers, who says it’s time to support California’s call for a full cancer investigation around nuclear plants. READ MORE

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