Six years later, the Tokyo authorities have decided that the people closest to the tragedy of the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant have received sufficient assistance. The state is not to waste the money: the four reactors are still unable to control the radioactivity they pour, the company TEPCO on the verge of bankruptcy, the bill for the increasingly heavy accident... After March, how should people forced to evacuate Fukushima live in 2011?

The Japanese authorities have decided that the contamination of 20 miliSiervert (mS/u) per year is a sustainable thing. Incidentally, the European Union is about to accept the same barbarism with the Euratom regulations, but there are hardly any complaints from anyone in Europe. The area of Fukushima, declared as a habitable area, has no excuse for not returning home. The blog Nos Voisins Lointains 3.11 [Our Remote Neighbours], tracks his drama with Kurumi Sugitak translating to French the testimonies in Japanese published on the net by the inhabitants around Fukushima.

For example, Mrs Saki Okawara told her on her Facebook page on 16 January how she has brought Kawauchi 200 hand-made clothing points that volunteers have sent her from Tokyo with the solidarity of the people hit by the disaster. He also says that Kawauchin was removed by his mayor in 2012. As a result, some of the compulsory evacuation allowances ended in August. But the lack of legal problems did not mean that it did not exist: in a few months the president of the Association of Refugees Citizens in Koriyama, fleeing from Kawauchi, spread over the internet a serious request for help, which in order to overcome the winter of 2013 people lacked basic things like rice and clothing. This is how Mrs. Okawara met the inhabitants of Kawauchi.

“When the evacuation order is abrogated, people living in probitional huts lose the subsidies to pay them, as they live far away from the people, not forced by law, but by their will. Despite being actually evacuated, they become jishu hinansha, ‘self-evacuated’. The authorities in the Fukushima department are also responsible for the suspension of aid for probial casets.

What Atsushi Shida told on Facebook, president of the kawauchi living in the probial casets, has also been translated to Nos Voisins Lointains 3.11. Shida says that 90% of people living in probial neighborhoods want to continue living there. Why go back to the country if there is no one and nothing to stop?

After the accident when young people left, who wants the family to grow up in a contaminated area? Even from the elderly, those who could have gone to live in distant cities with their children. People over 80 and 90 years old, as a single couple, many sick or debilitated, if not by the sound of their heads, have remained in temporary slums. “Living in probial huts,” Shida says, is getting harder and harder for those of us here, but it would be even harder to have to reorganize life outside of here. Surely from April onwards we will be further reduced in terms of services. Living here is living in a nursing home, but without a professional assistant.”

Volunteers looking for atoms

There are still more than 100,000 citizens who have been affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Many of them will lose aid by the end of March. “We – the head of the evacuees from Kawauchi has written – have learned for six years that the evacuation can still be long and that environmental pollution will last for many years, which will last for centuries.”

On the other side of the coin are people who have been forced to live in an environment contaminated by radioactivity. The people of the Chernobyl area now dislike the tragedy that they are living in these 30 years: How do we survive among the amounts of radioactivity that until a few years ago seemed unacceptable?

Auzolan, again. The old scientist and antinuclear leader Pierre Fetet told in his blog Fukushima how a group of volunteers have met in Minamisoma to measure radioactivity in the air as in the ground. Although in the group there are also younger people, the majority are composed of people portrayed. Older people have taken care of the work because they are not as sensitive to radioactivity as young people.

Led by engineer Yoichi Ozawa, they measure the number of streets, houses, buildings, orchards and radiations of all possibilities, showing how to perform and document the measurements with the meters used in the laboratories: Hitachi Aloka TCS166B, Hitachi Aloka TGS146B and Canberra NaI Scintillation Detector. The area is classified into air control areas of 75x100 meters and to document the soil in areas of 375x500 meters. The measurements are carried out at a distance of 1,50 and 100 centimetres from the soil.

They have complete independence, no lobby disrupts the results and they are talking about very strict methods, following the scientific protocol that is shown publicly. Pierre Fetet, one of the world leaders in the field of radiation, states that “official bodies should take as an example the way this group works”.

Ozawa and his volunteers are full alerts, hidden by the mainstream media and by the authorities to society, which we should protect citizens from all over the world. As Fetet says, “the people there warn them with their maps: Be careful! There are contradictory laws in Japan and what the authorities say is that the consumption of 20 mSv/u does not have health consequences, it is not necessarily true. If you come home, you will have to suffer irradiations and contamination.’ France is preparing the same remedy, turning Directive 2013/59/Euratom into a national law, so here it will also be 100 mSv/u at an emergency time and in the 12 months following 20 mSv/u (and in the following years, as there is no guarantee that this level will be lowered subsequently). And those doses apply to everyone, whether they are infants, children or pregnant women!”

Nikkei, a specialist in fund measurement, has published that Fukushima has so far cost EUR 167,000 million. It doesn't count all of them.