Fukushima – Ende nicht in Sicht (Ganze Doku) | Quarks

In March 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck the coast of Japan. A tsunami followed. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant subsequently suffered a nuclear meltdown. The region around Fukushima was declared a restricted area. Four years after the disaster, we were able to get a firsthand look at the situation. Even years after the reactor disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the Japanese are working tirelessly to get the consequences of the accident under control. Quarks visited the people of Fukushima after the disaster and shows the medical, technical, and human challenges they continue to face in the restricted area of Fukushima and beyond. Even four years after the nuclear accident, the radioactive threat is omnipresent in the Fukushima region. One house after another is being decontaminated, food is being strictly controlled, and public radioactivity monitoring stations are located everywhere – even in playgrounds. In the Fukushima exclusion zone, which stretches 30 kilometers northwest from the destroyed power plant, radioactive levels remain very high even after four years. Nevertheless, some areas are bustling with activity: residents and workers are using machines, wire brushes, and plastic bags to remove traces of radioactivity. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is still severely damaged four years after the disaster – Quarks was the first foreign camera crew granted free access to the site after the nuclear accident. Author: Reinhart Brünning From our broadcast on March 10, 2015. --- Thanks for watching! Did you like the video? Then subscribe now to the only official Quarks channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/Quarks?sub_co... Quarks on Facebook:   / quarks.de   Also visit: https://www.quarks.de #Quarks on Instagram:   / quarks.de     / beautyquarks   Find the clip in the WDR media library here: https://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/playe... #Fukushima #NuclearPower