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No other country was hit so hard. 70 percent of the radioactive fallout landed there, and one in five residents suddenly found themselves on poisoned land. Entire villages were buried in the ground to prevent people from returning. The disaster destroyed an entire rural culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-4ANi-oL-DIg\/Vx-xnCdkfyI\/AAAAAAAADaA\/vb1hvfoPkmgMS-f8p6gLnGXVgfSBT1udwCLcB\/s1600\/Chernobyl%2BRadiation%2BWarning%2BSign%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Chernobyl Radiation Warning Sign\" border=\"0\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-4ANi-oL-DIg\/Vx-xnCdkfyI\/AAAAAAAADaA\/vb1hvfoPkmgMS-f8p6gLnGXVgfSBT1udwCLcB\/s640\/Chernobyl%2BRadiation%2BWarning%2BSign%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Chernobyl Radiation Warning Sign\" width=\"840\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EChernobyl Radiation Warning Sign - Photo by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-hT3UzGgcu1w\/Vx-x6odMugI\/AAAAAAAADaE\/te-VeNpzRnAw5sbtmt75KB2sTQV3DXYjQCLcB\/s1600\/Text%2Band%2BPhoto%2Bby%2BAnna-Lena%2BLaur%25C3%25A9n%2Band%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Anna-Lena Laurén and Beatrice Lundborg\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-hT3UzGgcu1w\/Vx-x6odMugI\/AAAAAAAADaE\/te-VeNpzRnAw5sbtmt75KB2sTQV3DXYjQCLcB\/s400\/Text%2Band%2BPhoto%2Bby%2BAnna-Lena%2BLaur%25C3%25A9n%2Band%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Anna-Lena Laurén and Beatrice Lundborg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EText and Photo by Anna-Lena Laurén and Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EThe following text originally written by Journalist Anna-Lena Laurén have been translated from Swedish to English.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EIt is important to look for the apple trees. Where there's apple trees, there have once been a home.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBuried under the soil, overgrown with hazel bushes and newly planted pines.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only thing that stands upright in this former village is a silver statue of a Soviet soldier, he stands at attention at the entrance as a kind of absurd symbol of a past buried under last year's dry leaves and pine plantations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6huJMxuDbYU\/Vx-ylMwI-SI\/AAAAAAAADaM\/NJ-yucShg7Ycz1aTuiu3FBr36L6zOMUUACLcB\/s1600\/Chernobyl%2BDead%2BTrees%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Chernobyl Apple Trees\" border=\"0\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6huJMxuDbYU\/Vx-ylMwI-SI\/AAAAAAAADaM\/NJ-yucShg7Ycz1aTuiu3FBr36L6zOMUUACLcB\/s640\/Chernobyl%2BDead%2BTrees%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Chernobyl Apple Trees\" width=\"840\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EChernobyl Apple Trees - Photo by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003ESometimes you find small hills in the countryside. There lies the demolished remains of a house. Or \"chutar\", as they say in these parts - a Belarus peasant cottage with spacious porch, worn stairs and ornate window frames.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI try to imagine how it once was out here. The cottages, barns, sheds. The sandy village road, which continues to the cemetery a short distance away. The graves are still there and every year villagers from Starinka gather there in early May to celebrate radunitsa, the Orthodox Church holiday when honoring their dead by eating and drinking on the grave yard. Sometimes even dance and sing to. Fistfights also occur. This is a region where the relationship with the ancestors and family's land is concrete and tangible, the ground and the trees are considered to be inspired, to leave them is like leaving a man. Not to speak of burying them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\"I'll tell you how our grandmother said goodbye to our house. She bowed to the barn. She went around and bowed to every apple tree. And when we left our home our grandfather took off his hat.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFrom: \"Pray for Chernobyl\" By Svetlana Aleksijevitj\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn hundreds of Belarusian villages the farming community survived and remained well into the 1980s, despite the forced collectivization. Many had never left their home and among the elderly, it was still not unusual to not be able to read and write. April 26, 1986 catapulted this archaic society into the atomic age when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded two hundred kilometers to the south.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe wind was blowing to the north and \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E70 per cent of the radioactive fallout ended up in Belarus\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, a country with more than ten million inhabitants. Over two million people were exposed to radioactive fallout, \u003Cb\u003Eover twenty percent of the country's territory were soiled. There was no other country than Belarus that was proportionally hit so hard by the Chernobyl disaster.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the buried village of Starenka where we now are the measuring instruments, known as a dosimeters,  are showing that the dose is 3.2 microsieverts per hour. As a comparison, the Japanese authorities after the Fukushima accident evacuated residents from areas with a radiation higher than 3.8 microsieverts per hour. In Sweden it is considered 0.1 to 0.3 microsieverts per hour to be normal background radiation. In Belarus levels seen at 0.2-0.4 are now normal, according to our local guide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStarenka located in the so-called \"zone\", 600-kilometer-wide area affected by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster. \u003Cb\u003EHere on the Belarusian side, where most of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is located a total of 70 villages have been buried.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe area is in turn subdivided into several zones. On the map it looks like a patchwork quilt. In the deep red zone, nothing appear at all, the radiation level is too high. In the red zone the levels are so high that no one is recommended stay there, but many have returned. In a third zone, the authorities have declared safe even when the radioactivity is elevated. The authorities say they monitor the situation. The fourth zone is located at the tip and have slightly elevated radioactivity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-wRNCo9McAvA\/Vx-y2w7ZxiI\/AAAAAAAADaU\/V_qKNT9xuNkU0P-GC_BcPAxTZnhtl4mlgCLcB\/s1600\/South%2BBelarus%2BTowns%2BDeserted%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"South Belarus Towns Deserted\" border=\"0\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-wRNCo9McAvA\/Vx-y2w7ZxiI\/AAAAAAAADaU\/V_qKNT9xuNkU0P-GC_BcPAxTZnhtl4mlgCLcB\/s640\/South%2BBelarus%2BTowns%2BDeserted%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"South Belarus Towns Deserted\" width=\"840\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ESouth Belarus Towns Deserted - Photo by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\"During the war, every fourth Belarusian died, today every fifth now live on contaminated land.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFrom: \"Pray for Chernobyl\" By Svetlana Aleksijevitj\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShortly after the disaster, thousands of evacuated people chose to move back to the zone. They simply could not stand to not live in their own homes and villages. One of those who from the beginning refused to move is 63-year-old Nina Perevalova that we found in the abandoned village of Dubna. Like many other older people who have chosen to stay in the empty villages, she believes that the evacuation was unnecessary.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-2SuW5ASmUPE\/Vx-zEdmePzI\/AAAAAAAADaY\/9FTVNKwB1VQ7I1z_r2QWvepddZtqsw4tQCLcB\/s1600\/Nina%2BPerevalova%2B63%2B-%2BTown%2Bof%2BDubna%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Nina Perevalova\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-2SuW5ASmUPE\/Vx-zEdmePzI\/AAAAAAAADaY\/9FTVNKwB1VQ7I1z_r2QWvepddZtqsw4tQCLcB\/s640\/Nina%2BPerevalova%2B63%2B-%2BTown%2Bof%2BDubna%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Nina Perevalova\" width=\"426\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ENina Perevalova - Photo by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EEveryone that left these parts have died. They were promised compensation and went away. They saw it as an opportunity to make money.\u003C\/b\u003E But they were not happy in their new home and now most of them are dead. We who stayed are still alive on the other hand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENina Perevalova goes back and forth between the cabin and the hen house, cattle shed and pigsty. She's practically wearing galoshes, woolen sweater and a green jacket. Red plaid skirt, purple scarf on the head. Actually, she has no time to talk to us, she has chores to attend to and sticks hear head into the cabin and commands  her husband to come outside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-LC8xaHIB_Y4\/Vx-zMzRhvAI\/AAAAAAAADag\/Q84iMJBF69k6ASkn90ZZG2wiYKfRufFBwCLcB\/s1600\/Nina%2BPerevalova%2B63%2BContinue%2Bto%2BLive%2Bin%2BChernobyl%2BRed%2BZone%2BTown%2Bof%2BDubna%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Nina Perevalova\" border=\"0\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-LC8xaHIB_Y4\/Vx-zMzRhvAI\/AAAAAAAADag\/Q84iMJBF69k6ASkn90ZZG2wiYKfRufFBwCLcB\/s640\/Nina%2BPerevalova%2B63%2BContinue%2Bto%2BLive%2Bin%2BChernobyl%2BRed%2BZone%2BTown%2Bof%2BDubna%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Nina Perevalova\" width=\"840\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ENina Perevalova Photo by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKolja! Come out, we've got guests!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMykola Nikitenko, 58, an unemployed tractor driver. Sometimes he works as a day laborer on construction sites, otherwise he lives off the garden, his pets and his wife's pension. He does not regret the decision to stay, even though they have been left alone in the village.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere lived some fifty families before the disaster. We had a private shop and nearby there was a collective farm where a large part of the inhabitants worked. Over there was a road... and that's where one of his neighbors had his garden,  Nikitenko said, pointing to an overgrown field.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vHc5COAlia0\/Vx-zcGKg5rI\/AAAAAAAADak\/ikmG5l3NKawlxXFefH7GlH5-WlisjAv8gCLcB\/s1600\/Mykola%2BNikitenko%2BChernobyl%2BRed%2BZone%2BTown%2Bof%2BDubna%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Mykola Nikitenko\" border=\"0\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vHc5COAlia0\/Vx-zcGKg5rI\/AAAAAAAADak\/ikmG5l3NKawlxXFefH7GlH5-WlisjAv8gCLcB\/s640\/Mykola%2BNikitenko%2BChernobyl%2BRed%2BZone%2BTown%2Bof%2BDubna%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Mykola Nikitenko\" width=\"840\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EMykola Nikitenko - Photo by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EOf fifty households there remains only three. Four, five buildings remain, the rest ageing slowly but surely. Houses leaning and gray are the remains on both sides of the village road, they resemble old people who rely on a cane. The logs are gray with age, many houses have no roofs. Others have already fallen over and lies helpless on the ground, eventually becoming the piles of boards where people provide themselves with firewood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe remaining houses have tin roofs that often goes almost to the ground. They look ancient, part of the landscape, brown and gray with beautiful, ornate window frames painted in bright green or sky blue. Nina Perevalovas and Mykola Nikitenkos house is simple, run-down and poor but impeccably well maintained - from the house to the roost to the pigsty and the sheep house is neat and tidy, everything has its place.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBirdsong sounds everywhere and hazel thicket have small green leaves. Up in a telephone pole there are birds. It is now spring, intense spring. Around one of the fallen houses small white and gray kids are leaping up and down of what is left of the timber wall. Nina Perevalova speak with them. She talks constantly with all their animals and calling them by name - pig named Vaska, the fearless gray hen Sivka and favorite price Gorka.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-__1Vi4sRYgA\/Vx-zpdK160I\/AAAAAAAADas\/i4_erOYtchcV8yeEvFqhNEU1L_9Qk05GQCLcB\/s1600\/Animals%2BChernobyl%2BRed%2BZone%2BTown%2Bof%2BDubna%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Fallen Houses\" border=\"0\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-__1Vi4sRYgA\/Vx-zpdK160I\/AAAAAAAADas\/i4_erOYtchcV8yeEvFqhNEU1L_9Qk05GQCLcB\/s640\/Animals%2BChernobyl%2BRed%2BZone%2BTown%2Bof%2BDubna%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Fallen Houses\" width=\"840\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EFallen Houses - Photo by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is my baby. Gorka, my little man .... Gorka my golden boy, says Nina Perevalova and scratches a kid area behind the ear.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen she looks up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003EI drink goat milk, gathering berries and mushrooms in the forest, growing in the kitchen garden. We have pigs and chickens. We are doing well. Only sore legs. Maybe it has to do with Chernobyl, what do I know? Everything was better and everyone was happier when we did not know anything about this radiation!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe invites us in the hall and pours fresh goat milk in a tin mug. I drink a sip, it tastes good. Then I set the cup back on the table. Our instruments have shown the normal radiation levels in this village, but I can not bring myself to drink up. \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAfter reading about how tired these villagers are and other precautions I feel ashamed before Nina Perevalova, but she says nothing. By all accounts, she is accustomed.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWhen they last came here and measured how much radiation we have in the body, I had exceeded the norm. My husband had however completely normal levels. He drinks horilka (moonshine). It is said to be good against radiation.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Mz3cLC6cMyA\/Vx-z3IaH82I\/AAAAAAAADa0\/RKonoyXvIN8HnX44Ejkyq2eV8vLwJwzfgCLcB\/s1600\/Natalja%2BKrivosjejevas%2BChernobyl%2BRed%2BZone%2BTown%2Bof%2BSytjyn%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Natalia Krivosjejeva\" border=\"0\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Mz3cLC6cMyA\/Vx-z3IaH82I\/AAAAAAAADa0\/RKonoyXvIN8HnX44Ejkyq2eV8vLwJwzfgCLcB\/s640\/Natalja%2BKrivosjejevas%2BChernobyl%2BRed%2BZone%2BTown%2Bof%2BSytjyn%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Natalia Krivosjejeva\" width=\"840\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ENatalia Krivosjejeva - Photo by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\"I want us to move. But my husband a lumberjack refuses.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA dozen kilometers further away is Sytjyn, another village which was evacuated after the disaster. A few years later, people began to move back and for two years life started to return and the village was rebuilt. But then it was emptied for the second time when unemployment drove people to move away. Today, all the houses are deserted - all but one with intense cobalt blue paint and a handrail made of birch trunks. It houses the unemployed postman Krivosjejeva Natalya, 40 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was ten years old when they evacuated us to a neighboring village, Maksimovskij. But it never felt like home there. \u003Cb\u003EThe worst thing was not even the horrible, crude damp apartments, but we were shunned by locals. They called us \"Chernobyltsi\" and felt that we were a health risk. They did not talk to us.\u003C\/b\u003E We had a serious food shortage in Belarus and they were furious at having to share the bread shipments with newcomers. Their disdain I will never forget, says Natalia Krivosjejeva and wipes away a tear.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEight years after the evacuation, she returned as a newlywed to Sytjyn. The only thing which by then remained of the family's house was a bare stone base.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- The house had been newly built, it was valuable and was simply stolen, dismantled piece by piece. We moved into the empty library instead and I got a job as a postman in the neighboring village. But now my employment have been revoked and we are the last family who still live in this village. It's very sad to be a young person that does not have someone to talk to! I want us to move. But my husband is a lumberjack and refuses, Natalia regrets.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OmZX4UQra_o\/Vx-0Iyt8PvI\/AAAAAAAADa8\/BNOm9mAvDRYiHclz2q5fs2-PpsVYIlEuQCLcB\/s1600\/Natalja%2BKrivosjejevas%2BOnly%2BFamily%2BLeft%2Bin%2BTown%2Bof%2BSytjyn%2BChernobyl%2BRed%2BZone%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Natalia Krivosjejeva\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OmZX4UQra_o\/Vx-0Iyt8PvI\/AAAAAAAADa8\/BNOm9mAvDRYiHclz2q5fs2-PpsVYIlEuQCLcB\/s640\/Natalja%2BKrivosjejevas%2BOnly%2BFamily%2BLeft%2Bin%2BTown%2Bof%2BSytjyn%2BChernobyl%2BRed%2BZone%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Natalia Krivosjejeva\" width=\"426\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ENatalia Krivosjejeva - Photo by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EShe is angry with herself because she and her husband have been waiting too long with the decision to leave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll the other returnees have left our village. There are no buses here anymore, the line has been completely unprofitable. We can not afford a car, we can not even afford to have a pig for it needs food! We have no electricity or water, I wash clothes by hand. Look at my hands! says Natalia Krivosjejeva and holds out her rough hands.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENatalia does not think very much about the radiation. She and her husband live of their garden and self-catering, like most others in the zone. According to the dosimeters the radiation is at a normal level next to the house, but if you drive a few kilometers away then the radiation is significantly higher. Also, if you live in an area that is permitted in the zone, then some contaminated areas can lie next to you because the zones merge into one another.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-II6TutihvwM\/Vx-0S70m6fI\/AAAAAAAADbA\/pQePcy0aTMI8156lGunGCzx8l49r2ZlJwCLcB\/s1600\/Chernobyl%2BDead%2BTowns%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Dead towns\" border=\"0\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-II6TutihvwM\/Vx-0S70m6fI\/AAAAAAAADbA\/pQePcy0aTMI8156lGunGCzx8l49r2ZlJwCLcB\/s640\/Chernobyl%2BDead%2BTowns%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Dead towns\" width=\"840\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EDead towns - Photo by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\"They told us that we could drink the milk of our cows and eat vegetables that we grew. We did this for three years. \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003EThen they announced suddenly that we could not eat or drink anything.\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003E\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome seventy kilometers further away is a small community with the optimistic name Majsk. The houses there do not resemble the old Belarusian peasant cottages. They are white, modern two-story-straight rows, surrounded by square, fence enclosed gardens. Majsk is one of the villages that was rebuilt on a so-called safe area, which residents themselves scoff at.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELook how it's burning over there on the other side of the field. That area is radioactive, there we can not go. But every spring and summer fires occurs and the radioactivity spread. We must not go into the woods and pick berries and mushrooms. Everything is dangerous. We are completely surrounded by radioactive areas, we are like on an island. What life is that? exclaimed Olga, a thirty year old art teacher who is about to rake the yard.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHer mother glares angrily at us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWe have received orders not to speak to journalists!\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E We are just to keep our mouths shut. I worked at the collective farm in the four years after the disaster. \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EI stood in the field and sowed and breathed in the dust, breathing in all that came out of the earth. Then it turned out that the area was one of the worst polluted by radiation\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E and we moved here. Have we received any compensation? No. Because now we all live in a safe area!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe stops to rake and goes off furiously toward the potato patch behind the house.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll residents of Majsk originally came from a village named Tjudjany, an area the Soviet authorities first considered as safe. Therefore, the inhabitants were sent back home after the first evacuation, just four years later they were evacuated again to the newly built city Majsk - which turned out to be completely surrounded by radioactive soil.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey told us that we could drink the milk of our cows and eat vegetables that we grew. We did this for three years. But then they announced suddenly that we can't  eat or drink anything. Clearly many are furious, but what good did it do? Now we live in an ill-chosen location, but what should we do? Where are we moving? Chernobyl has destroyed our lives, says Olga in the same tone as stated by many others I encounter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeople here often don't even regret it happened. They simply state it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOlga say they have health problems, particularly pain in the joints. It's one symptom that is common among people who live in or near the radioactive zone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut you can not prove that it has to do with Chernobyl. My children go to school here, they get iodine tablets, and free trips to a sanatorium twice a year. It's the only compensation we get to live next door to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, says Olga, who do not want to be photographed or say his real name.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn the other side of the field is a memorial with a small plaque:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\"Here stood the village Tjudjany, with 137 families and 323 inhabitants. Buried in 1999. \"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-REXU2q7xKCw\/Vx-0f8Hyl4I\/AAAAAAAADbI\/qLEmjE4J9l4Uk89drSa9mEFTL0alScLKACLcB\/s1600\/Pavel%2BMoisejev%2BBelaruse%2BCenter%2Bfor%2BCancer%2BResearch%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Pavel Moisejev\" border=\"0\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-REXU2q7xKCw\/Vx-0f8Hyl4I\/AAAAAAAADbI\/qLEmjE4J9l4Uk89drSa9mEFTL0alScLKACLcB\/s640\/Pavel%2BMoisejev%2BBelaruse%2BCenter%2Bfor%2BCancer%2BResearch%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Pavel Moisejev\" width=\"840\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EPavel Moisejev - Photo by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EOur institute has absolutely no interest in concealing the presence of cancer, the opposite. We need all the resources we can get.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThyroid cancer has soared in Belarus since the Chernobyl disaster. According to Pavel Moisejev leading the State Institute for Cancer Control in Belarus, the figures are quite clear. In 1990, the number of thyroid cancer cases in Belarus was 1.2 per 100 000 inhabitants, in 2014 it was 18.3. It is mainly children who are affected - and especially girls.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELarge amounts of radioactive iodine was released into the atmosphere after the disaster. It affects the thyroid. For some reason, girls and women are more susceptible to radioactive contamination. We have not found an explanation for this. Luckily thyroid cancer is usually curable if detected in time, says Pavel Moisejev.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe receives us at the State Belarusian Center for Cancer Research located in Lesnoj, a leafy suburb of Minsk. Here is the \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Ecountry's largest cancer hospital with 832 hospital beds, all of which are occupied\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E when we visit the center. It is not only thyroid cancer that is increasing in Belarus - all forms of cancer has become more common. But according to Pavel Moisejev there is no scientific evidence of a Chernobyl connection, except in the specific case of thyroid cancer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMoisejev is aware that many belarusians have stopped believing the authorities regarding Chernobyl. He raises his hands.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGuess if I constantly hear that ... I'm just saying what we on a scientific basis can establish! Our institute has absolutely no interest in concealing the presence of cancer, the opposite. We need all the resources we can get. Belarus is undergoing an economic crisis, but we have just built two new research centers and is building a new clinic. The construction will be completed, despite the fact that the state has much less money now. Today we have the resources in a completely different way than before. Our research is the best among all former Soviet countries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Moisejev notes that all diseases from Chernobyl's wake are still not known. As for metals like cesium and strontium with thirty years half life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERadioactive iodine, cesium and strontium were released in large quantities. We do not yet know what consequences it can have - perhaps we'll know in 20, 30 or 50 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EOnly time will tell.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EA person who has devoted his life to researching the consequences of the Chernobyl are Juryj Bandazjeŭski. He founded the country's first Chernobyl Institute in Gomel in 1989, one of the largest cities next to the so-called zone. Bandazeŭvski criticized the authorities for not taking the implications seriously and was jailed in 2001, accused of taking bribes from students. Amnesty International considered that the charges were fabricated and appointed Bandazjeŭski a prisoner of conscience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFour years later he was released and Bandazjeŭski received temporary asylum in France. Today he is researching in Ukraine and I interview him on skype.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince 2014, we examine children in two regions outside Kiev where there was radioactive fallout, Ivanovskij and Poleskij. \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EEvery year we have investigated 4000 children aged between 3 and 17 years. Their general health is poor, 80 percent have various types of heart problems. The mortality in both heart disease and cancer is very high in this area\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, especially among young working-age people, says Bandazjeŭvski.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe would not comment on the situation in Belarus, because he can no longer work there. What he does want to make clear is that the EU - which admittedly is funding his research - have not taken the consequences of the Chernobyl seriously. Ukraine does not have the resources to invest in research and Belarus is a dictatorship, critical researchers run into major problems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch funding should be earmarked for each region and are not be given as lump sums to various authorities. Actually, there should in general not live any children in these areas. We can only imagine the long term effects on their health, and we need much more research. This requires, in turn, more resources to investigate each child individually and accurately determine which factors are interrelated, says Juryj Bandazjeŭski.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccurate knowledge of how things fit together is something that Chernobyl disaster victims have pondered much over the past thirty years. At first they believed the authorities - which then turned out to lie systematically. Then they started to draw their own conclusions, which in turn led to hysterical rumors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToday many victims fell a strong sense of still being deceived. They still do not know exactly how polluted the land is, or how sick they are. One only guess and wonder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-4ANj1AOHhCs\/Vx-1DNcv8RI\/AAAAAAAADbQ\/kM3tme7Mltoe35YDU-YbaiMzqTGwufiRQCLcB\/s1600\/Mykola%2BRasiuk%2Bsaw%2BChernobyl%2BReactor%2BBurn%2BTold%2BHe%2Band%2BHis%2BWife%2BValentina%2BOnly%2BHad%2B5%2BYears%2BLeft%2Bto%2BLive%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Mykola Rasiuk and wife Valentina\" border=\"0\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-4ANj1AOHhCs\/Vx-1DNcv8RI\/AAAAAAAADbQ\/kM3tme7Mltoe35YDU-YbaiMzqTGwufiRQCLcB\/s640\/Mykola%2BRasiuk%2Bsaw%2BChernobyl%2BReactor%2BBurn%2BTold%2BHe%2Band%2BHis%2BWife%2BValentina%2BOnly%2BHad%2B5%2BYears%2BLeft%2Bto%2BLive%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Mykola Rasiuk and wife Valentina\" width=\"840\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EMykola Rasiuk and wife Valentina - Photo by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMykola Rasiuk was thirty years old when he drove along the road that is still called \"Road of Death\" - the road that led out from Pripyat, a model Soviet town next to Chernobyl in the current Ukraine.\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EHe drove past the nuclear power plant that was in flames. Above it hovered raspberry-colored clouds. People opened the windows, watched and admired.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWhen we arrived at the ferry a lot of fish had lost their ability to swim and floated up on the beach. People were fishing with their bare hands...\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cb\u003Eno one understood how dangerous it was. We drove on to dacha and suddenly I was hit by a terrible headache. I stepped out of the car and vomited, and when we arrived, I drank a liter of vodka. Since then I have been living. But many of my friends and relatives are sick or dead, says Mykola Rasiuk.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis wife Valentina Rasiuk worked in a factory that made radios in Pripyat, Mykola worked as an electrician. Pripyat was founded next to the brand new Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It had been built in 1977 and was considered to be the safest in the world. When the accident occurred, very few understood that the whole area had become dangerous to live in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was worried for my relatives and friends who worked at the nuclear plant, that they had been injured during the accident. Not for one second I thought of the radiation. It was only when we came to the relatives of Kiev we understood what it was about. They said we would take iodine - something that we had not even heard of. \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe authorities did not even tell us that the children should not play outside!\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E said Valentina Rasiuk.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-km8ObaYwMZ4\/Vx-1OIE-kpI\/AAAAAAAADbU\/AwKJ7huWOLwv9Puzcp2qOa6miIZ_gG2aQCLcB\/s1600\/Mykola%2BRasiuk%2BWants%2BPeople%2Bto%2BKnow%2BThe%2BReal%2BTruth%2BAbout%2BChernobyl%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Mykola Rasiuk\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-km8ObaYwMZ4\/Vx-1OIE-kpI\/AAAAAAAADbU\/AwKJ7huWOLwv9Puzcp2qOa6miIZ_gG2aQCLcB\/s640\/Mykola%2BRasiuk%2BWants%2BPeople%2Bto%2BKnow%2BThe%2BReal%2BTruth%2BAbout%2BChernobyl%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Mykola Rasiuk\" width=\"426\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EMykola Rasiuk - Photo by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom Ukraine the Rasiku family decided to move back to their home country Belarus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWhen we got to Mogiljev people said to us that we had five years to live.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E How would you take it? I thought mostly about the children, I wished that the kids could grow up and become adults, says Valentina Rasiuk.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe children survived. By now the couple have lived in Mogiljev for over twenty years. Both their parents were however left in the so-called zone and died early.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEach anniversary of Chernobyl the city authorities make a speech. It's always about the same thing - the heroes who saved us from danger. Never about how many people got sick and died or had their lives ruined. I have requested the floor several times, \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EI have tried to share Svetlana Aleksijevitjs \"Prayer for Chernobyl\" - but they throw me out by force and now they won't even let me in at the memorial, said Mykola Rasiuk.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe State Institute for Cancer Research in Minsk says that it is not possible to establish any link between the Chernobyl disaster and any other cancer than thyroid cancer. Rasiuk just scoff when I say it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWe who have our roots in the zone have our own statistics.\u003C\/b\u003E Every spring we go back to our home village to honor our dead on radunitsa. We meet, eat, drink and remember. We count how many are there and how many people have died. We look for ourselves what's really is going on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBefore the interview ends Rasiku pours Belarus balm, traditional herb liqueur in small crystal glasses. He raises his glass.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECheers we are alive anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-5IOkZTg6JIo\/Vx-1WzwZJaI\/AAAAAAAADbc\/1dmwnYL7mug-a7f0zX98tH0Ur2zpTBeDACLcB\/s1600\/Mykola%2BRasiuk%2BDon%2527t%2BAgree%2Bwith%2BOfficial%2BReports%2BBecause%2BThe%2BPeople%2Bin%2Bthe%2BRed%2BZone%2BHave%2BTheir%2BOwn%2BStatistics%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-5IOkZTg6JIo\/Vx-1WzwZJaI\/AAAAAAAADbc\/1dmwnYL7mug-a7f0zX98tH0Ur2zpTBeDACLcB\/s640\/Mykola%2BRasiuk%2BDon%2527t%2BAgree%2Bwith%2BOfficial%2BReports%2BBecause%2BThe%2BPeople%2Bin%2Bthe%2BRed%2BZone%2BHave%2BTheir%2BOwn%2BStatistics%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BBeatrice%2BLundborg%2Bwww.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" width=\"840\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EPhoto by Beatrice Lundborg\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ASxAvxYCeAM\/Vx_B-6qBzVI\/AAAAAAAADbw\/eJj4o340FHcOtOGI2IviJm_rQPoard_SACLcB\/s1600\/Chernobyl-Radiation-Map-1996-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Chernobyl radiation map 1996\" border=\"0\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ASxAvxYCeAM\/Vx_B-6qBzVI\/AAAAAAAADbw\/eJj4o340FHcOtOGI2IviJm_rQPoard_SACLcB\/s640\/Chernobyl-Radiation-Map-1996-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.jpg\" title=\"Chernobyl radiation map 1996\" width=\"806\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EChernobyl radiation map 1996\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 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\/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ojl835FlAAY\/VuwXmMTcbJI\/AAAAAAAADYw\/Wir8Vot_Swk5P3DacJ6FknSwc4_YbpFWg\/s1600\/CIA-Video-Briefing-for-President-Reagan-on-the-Chernobyl-Nuclear-Disaster-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"1986 CIA Historical Chernobyl Briefing for Ronald Reagan\" border=\"0\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ojl835FlAAY\/VuwXmMTcbJI\/AAAAAAAADYw\/Wir8Vot_Swk5P3DacJ6FknSwc4_YbpFWg\/s320\/CIA-Video-Briefing-for-President-Reagan-on-the-Chernobyl-Nuclear-Disaster-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"1986 CIA Historical Chernobyl Briefing for Ronald Reagan\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003EDeclassified CIA Historical Chernobyl Briefing\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003ESomehow all this sounds strangely familiar, it's almost a mirror of a current ongoing disaster...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHowever the actual cause and events described in this briefing was far from the truth at the time to what was really going on at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe video was declassified and released 2  Nov 2011 at the \"Ronald Reagan, Intelligence, and the End of the Cold  War\" symposium at the Reagan Presidential Library.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003EFrom symposium notes:\u003C\/u\u003E \"This was the first time the \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003EAgency used videos on a regular basis to  deliver intelligence to the policymaker\u003C\/span\u003E, and this collection marks the  first substantial release of such material in one of the CIA's  historical collections.\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sFevQANQjOI\" width=\"640\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sFevQANQjOI\"\u003EYoutube Link: CIA video briefing for Reagan: Chernobyl Disaster\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe 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30.094573600000032"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585124575966792017.post-1970849250706743875"},"published":{"$t":"2016-03-14T10:04:00.002-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-14T10:06:31.590-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"2020"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Contaminated Food"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fallout"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FUKUSHIMA"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fukushima Disaster"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nuclear Fallout"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Olympics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Radioactive Water"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Residents"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Toshiaki Endo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Video"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"☢ [Video] Fukushima 2020 Olympics ☢"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EJapan's minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Toshiaki Endo wants qualifiers to be held in Fukushima Japan.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; text-align: right;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-SAe7RCPoKzw\/VubtkmKb5uI\/AAAAAAAADX8\/B2Z6WcDz2Joddnb40dxpZkfDagbO_qpAQ\/s1600\/Toshiaki-Endo-Fukushima-2020-Olympics-Minister-Events-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Japans 2020 Olympic Minister Toshiaki Endo\" border=\"0\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-SAe7RCPoKzw\/VubtkmKb5uI\/AAAAAAAADX8\/B2Z6WcDz2Joddnb40dxpZkfDagbO_qpAQ\/s320\/Toshiaki-Endo-Fukushima-2020-Olympics-Minister-Events-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Japans 2020 Olympic Minister Toshiaki Endo\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EJapans 2020 Olympic Minister Toshiaki Endo\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThe proposal is for Fukushima to host 5 new Olympic sports including Baseball and Softball.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToshiaki Endo says \"I think disaster hit regions can host a number of qalifiers, these could be based in Fukushima.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"If qualifiers can be held in other regional areas as well, the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics will be an event for all of Japan.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VwhB2yjrNLA\" width=\"640\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EAlso in the video\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EI'm going to bring to light the Monju Fast Breeder Reactor Troubles  before I give you the normal Fukushima update tonight. Today's Headline  News from NHK .\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EFukushima Radioactive Headines Sep 30th 2015 Dana Durnford Radioactive Heartless Monster I mean IAEA hates Japanese.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EUp  To 100% of No. 2 Reactor Fuel May Have Melted A group of researchers  says it is highly likely that 70 to 100 percent of fuel has melted at  one of the Fukushima Nuclear Reactors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d7159.6098932657005!2d139.94418116214226!3d36.93234429484045!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x601f86b186ca8807%3A0xa15906e45bae86a8!2sNasunogahara+Park!5e0!3m2!1ssv!2sfi!4v1457974921008\" style=\"border: 0;\" width=\"600\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/radioactivechat.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1970849250706743875\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/radioactivechat.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/Video-Fukushima-2020-Olympics.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1585124575966792017\/posts\/default\/1970849250706743875"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1585124575966792017\/posts\/default\/1970849250706743875"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/radioactivechat.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/Video-Fukushima-2020-Olympics.html","title":"☢ [Video] Fukushima 2020 Olympics ☢"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"JD"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17735949883966509795"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_eYNXA0gKwI0\/TO7PGUn92oI\/AAAAAAAAAAU\/q9qrJpujpqM\/S220\/Redballononmymailbox.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-SAe7RCPoKzw\/VubtkmKb5uI\/AAAAAAAADX8\/B2Z6WcDz2Joddnb40dxpZkfDagbO_qpAQ\/s72-c\/Toshiaki-Endo-Fukushima-2020-Olympics-Minister-Events-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"},"georss$featurename":{"$t":"Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan"},"georss$point":{"$t":"36.961698 140.046066"},"georss$box":{"$t":"36.555878 139.400619 37.367518 140.691513"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585124575966792017.post-4653378910398544138"},"published":{"$t":"2016-03-10T20:03:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-11T08:36:20.469-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Anniversary"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Contaminated Food"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fallout"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FUKUSHIMA"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fukushima Disaster"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nuclear Fallout"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pacific Ocean"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Radioactive Water"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Robot"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"☢ Fukushima No Place for Man or Robot ☢"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003EThe robots sent into the nuclear power plants to find highly radioactive fuel at Fukushima's nuclear reactors have all “died”. The subterranean \"ice wall\" around the crippled plant meant to stop groundwater from becoming contaminated has yet to be finished with some experts saying they have little hope in it ever being finished.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd authorities still don’t even know how to dispose of the highly radioactive water stored in an ever mounting number of tanks around the site that are now starting to leak more and more. The authorities ongoing solution to the radioactive water problem to try and cool the reactors have so far been to \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Edump it all into the Pacific Ocean.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-yy3em9kR9mE\/VuJCm-tfyII\/AAAAAAAADXo\/eHtrRc9jXwQWtbWfLvjD3-P6i1qtS-alw\/s1600\/Fukushima-No-Place-for-Man-or-Robot-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Fukushima No Place for Man or Robot\" border=\"0\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-yy3em9kR9mE\/VuJCm-tfyII\/AAAAAAAADXo\/eHtrRc9jXwQWtbWfLvjD3-P6i1qtS-alw\/s640\/Fukushima-No-Place-for-Man-or-Robot-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg\" title=\"Fukushima No Place for Man or Robot\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EFukushima No Place for Man or Robot\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFive years ago, one of the worst earthquakes in history triggered a 10-metre high tsunami that crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station causing multiple meltdowns. Nearly 19,000 people were killed or left missing and 160,000 lost their homes and livelihoods.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToday, the radiation at the Fukushima plant is still so powerful it has proven impossible to get into its bowels to find and remove the extremely dangerous blobs of melted fuel rods. The radiation is so powerful that experts \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Ecan only guess at what depth the melted corium fuel now is located.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo far the official reports are that the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), has made some progress, such as removing hundreds of spent fuel roads in one damaged building. But the technology needed to establish the location of the melted fuel rods in the other three reactors at the plant has not been developed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It is extremely difficult to access the inside of the nuclear plant,\" Naohero Masuda, Tepco's head of decommissioning said in one interview. \"The biggest obstacle is the radiation.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fuel rods melted through their containment vessels in the reactors, and no one knows exactly where they are now. This part of the plant is so dangerous to humans, Tepco has been developing robots, which can swim under water and negotiate obstacles in damaged tunnels and piping to search for the melted fuel rods.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut as soon as they get close to the reactors, the radiation destroys their wiring and renders them useless, causing long delays, Masuda said.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEach robot has to be custom-built for each building.“It takes two years to develop a single-function robot,” Masuda said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EIrradiated Water\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETepco, which was fiercely criticized and still is for its handling of the disaster, says conditions at the Fukushima power station have improved dramatically. Radiation levels in many places at the site are now as low as those in Tokyo. But words like those do not speak much comfort for a disaster site know as being one of the worst nuclear disasters since Chernobyl in Ukraine 30 years ago,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore than 8,000 workers are at the plant at any one time, according to officials on a recent tour. Traffic is constant as they spread across the site, removing debris, building storage tanks, laying piping and preparing to dismantle parts of the plant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch of the work involves pumping a steady torrent of water into the wrecked and highly radiated reactors to cool them down. Afterward, some of the radiated water is then pumped out of the plant and stored in tanks that are proliferating around the site \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Ewhile the rest of the radioactive water is flushed out into the Pacific Ocean.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat to do with the nearly million tonnes of radioactive water is one of the biggest challenges, said Akiro Ono, the site manager. Ono said he is “deeply worried” the storage tanks will leak even more radioactive water into the sea - as they have done several times before - prompting strong criticism for the government. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe utility has so far failed to get the backing of local fishermen to release water it has treated into the ocean.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOno estimates that Tepco has completed around 10 percent of the work to clear the site up - the decommissioning process could take 30 to 40 years. But until the company locates the fuel, it won’t be able to assess progress and final costs, experts say.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe much touted use of X-ray like muon rays has yielded little information about the location of the melted fuel and the last robot inserted into one of the reactors sent only grainy images before breaking down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Great Ice Wall\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETepco is building the world’s biggest ice wall to keep groundwater from flowing into the basements of the damaged reactors and getting contaminated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst suggested in 2013 and strongly backed by the government, the wall was completed in February, after months of delays and questions surrounding its effectiveness. Later this year, Tepco plans to pump water into the wall - which looks a bit like the piping behind a refrigerator - to start the freezing process.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStopping the ground water intrusion into the plant is critical, said Artie Gunderson, a former nuclear engineer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E“The reactors continue to bleed radiation into the ground water and thence into the Pacific Ocean,”\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E Gunderson said. \"When Tepco finally stops the groundwater, that will be the end of the beginning.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile he would not rule out the possibility that small amounts of radiation are reaching the ocean, Masuda, the head of decommissioning, said the leaks have ended after the company built a wall along the shoreline near the reactors whose depth goes to below the seabed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I am not about to say that it is absolutely zero, but because of this wall the amount of release has dramatically dropped,” he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3168.6776895679022!2d141.0306037509973!3d37.4210924401026!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6020dd48057a6a21%3A0x5c6983a9a9082bf8!2sFukushima+Daiichi+Nuclear+Power+Station!5e0!3m2!1ssv!2sfi!4v1457668852075\" style=\"border: 0;\" width=\"600\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EJapan faces 200-year wait for Fukushima clean-up\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/world\/asia\/article4394978.ece\"\u003EThe Times of London\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003EMar. 27, \u003Cu\u003E2015\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThe chief of the Fukushima nuclear power station has \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Eadmitted that the technology needed to decommission three melted-down reactors does not exist\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, and he has no idea how it will be developed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EIn a stark reminder of the challenge facing the Japanese authorities, Akira Ono conceded that the stated goal of \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Edecommissioning the plant by 2051 may be impossible without a giant technological leap.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“There are so many uncertainties involved. We need to develop many, many technologies,” Mr Ono said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“Forremoval of the debris, we don’t have accurate information (about the state of the reactors) or any viable methodology…\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJapan may be obsessed with robots\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/japan\/11495762\/British-robots-glimpse-inside-the-Fukushima-nuclear-plant.html\"\u003EThe Telegraph\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E(UK), \u003Cb\u003EMar 26, \u003Cu\u003E2015\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EBut it is a British company that has solved the “impossible” problem of visualising the radiation leaks inside the crippled reactor buildings at Fukushima.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EState-of-the-art British imaging technology has been deployed at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to overcome problems that Japanese engineers declared to be insurmountable…\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThe system is able to create a real-time, three-dimensional image of the area being surveyed and identify “hot-spots” of radioactivity. More than four years after… radiation levels within the structures remain too high for humans to enter.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThat has severely hampered efforts to clean up the site. Experts have already estimated that process will take three decades but progress to date has been slow. \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETEPCO was only able to confirm on \u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003EThursday\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003E(Mar 2015)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E previous suspicions that nearly all the fuel from the No. 1 reactor at the plant has melted and fallen into the containment vessel.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/radioactivechat.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4653378910398544138\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/radioactivechat.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/Fukushima-No-Place-for-Man-or-Robot.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1585124575966792017\/posts\/default\/4653378910398544138"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1585124575966792017\/posts\/default\/4653378910398544138"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/radioactivechat.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/Fukushima-No-Place-for-Man-or-Robot.html","title":"☢ Fukushima No Place for Man or Robot ☢"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"JD"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17735949883966509795"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_eYNXA0gKwI0\/TO7PGUn92oI\/AAAAAAAAAAU\/q9qrJpujpqM\/S220\/Redballononmymailbox.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-yy3em9kR9mE\/VuJCm-tfyII\/AAAAAAAADXo\/eHtrRc9jXwQWtbWfLvjD3-P6i1qtS-alw\/s72-c\/Fukushima-No-Place-for-Man-or-Robot-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.com.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"},"georss$featurename":{"$t":"Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan"},"georss$point":{"$t":"37.7608337 140.47472819999996"},"georss$box":{"$t":"37.3593462 139.82928119999997 38.1623212 141.12017519999995"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585124575966792017.post-1153975750523197234"},"published":{"$t":"2016-03-02T10:16:00.002-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-02T10:16:31.645-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Anniversary"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Contaminated Food"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fallout"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fukushima Disaster"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fukushima Survivor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nahara"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nuclear Fallout"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pacific Ocean"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Radioactive Water"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Residents"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Video"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"☢ [Video] Ahead of Fukushima Anniversary Residents Worry About Future of Affected Areas ☢"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003EBags full of radioactive dirt and debris are still visible 5 years after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAhead of the anniversary on March 11th reporters visited a town 20 kilometers away. The first in the area to fully re-open.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-mhDxUElf46w\/Vtcsf8z6y0I\/AAAAAAAADW8\/zNxz1pkdoSA\/s1600\/Ahead-of-Fukushima-anniversary-residents-worry-about-future-of-affected-areas-2016-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-mhDxUElf46w\/Vtcsf8z6y0I\/AAAAAAAADW8\/zNxz1pkdoSA\/s640\/Ahead-of-Fukushima-anniversary-residents-worry-about-future-of-affected-areas-2016-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EBags full of Radioactive Dirt and Debris - Fukushima 2016\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EBut for some of the few residence who have returned to Nahara there's little hope for the future of the town. This Buddhist priest says after coming back I knew I would see the end of this region, this town. It became an environment where people could not live safely and comfortably ever again he says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-7TZTxvTpr2w\/VtcsyC4At2I\/AAAAAAAADXA\/X97pM32qFFM\/s1600\/Ahead-of-Fukushima-anniversary-residents-worry-about-future-of-affected-areas-2016-2-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-7TZTxvTpr2w\/VtcsyC4At2I\/AAAAAAAADXA\/X97pM32qFFM\/s640\/Ahead-of-Fukushima-anniversary-residents-worry-about-future-of-affected-areas-2016-2-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EBuddhist priest Tokuo Hayakawa living in Nahara, Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EIt's reported less than six percent of residents have returned. Locals say the future will depend on young people returning and so far there is only a handful amid lingering fares about radioactivity. However authorities maintain the presence of radiation has now dropped to levels below what's considered safe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F-rT9TSu25Q\" width=\"640\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWatch the video on Youtube\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/ll_embed?f=54336d15aa37\" width=\"640\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWatch video on Liveleak \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=d70_1456932602\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=d70_1456932602\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d50789.247196079494!2d140.91774893285458!3d37.2873606303125!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6020e1a0fa1e7f83%3A0x86bccb38071b8f1e!2sNaraha%2C+Futaba+District%2C+Fukushima+Prefecture%2C+Japan!5e0!3m2!1ssv!2sus!4v1456942107536\" style=\"border: 0;\" width=\"600\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/radioactivechat.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1153975750523197234\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/radioactivechat.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/Video-Ahead-of-Fukushima-Anniversary-Residents-Worry.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1585124575966792017\/posts\/default\/1153975750523197234"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1585124575966792017\/posts\/default\/1153975750523197234"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/radioactivechat.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/Video-Ahead-of-Fukushima-Anniversary-Residents-Worry.html","title":"☢ [Video] Ahead of Fukushima Anniversary Residents Worry About Future of Affected Areas ☢"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"JD"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17735949883966509795"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_eYNXA0gKwI0\/TO7PGUn92oI\/AAAAAAAAAAU\/q9qrJpujpqM\/S220\/Redballononmymailbox.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-mhDxUElf46w\/Vtcsf8z6y0I\/AAAAAAAADW8\/zNxz1pkdoSA\/s72-c\/Ahead-of-Fukushima-anniversary-residents-worry-about-future-of-affected-areas-2016-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"},"georss$featurename":{"$t":"Naraha, Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan"},"georss$point":{"$t":"37.2825 140.993611"},"georss$box":{"$t":"37.1814345 140.8322495 37.383565499999996 141.15497249999999"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585124575966792017.post-7803317410913181562"},"published":{"$t":"2015-08-21T08:34:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-08-21T08:34:48.877-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fallout"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fukushima Disaster"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Marine Biologist"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Oarfish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Radiation Sickness"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Radioactive Fish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Radioactive Water"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Santa Catalina Island"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sea Monsters"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"☢ When Sea Monsters Wash Ashore ☢"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003EThe beast likely weighed 150 - 200 pounds and around 24 feet long when it was alive, said Annie MacAulay, a marine biologist and president of Mountain and Sea Educational Adventures, who dissected it Monday.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe one found Monday had an empty pocket in its stomach, which MacAulay said could mean it recently stopped eating, a potential sign of distress or sickness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-jPuzo6BSzdM\/Vdc-9IQdobI\/AAAAAAAADL4\/JRKu8GGZhVg\/s1600\/Giant-oarfish-washes-up-on-Santa-Catalina-Island-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Scientific Guesswork.. Sick, Disoriented, Distress, underwater seismic activity.. Let me guess..\" border=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-jPuzo6BSzdM\/Vdc-9IQdobI\/AAAAAAAADL4\/JRKu8GGZhVg\/s640\/Giant-oarfish-washes-up-on-Santa-Catalina-Island-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.jpg\" title=\"Scientific Guesswork.. Sick, Disoriented, Distress, underwater seismic activity.. Let me guess..\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EStunned Scientific Guesswork.. Sick, Disoriented, Distress, underwater seismic activity.. Let me guess..\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EScientists have guessed\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E that a handful of oarfish that have washed up on California’s coasts in recent years were sick, disoriented because of a storm or even responding to underwater seismic activity. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBelow is a few headlines found at enenews covering the scientific mystery for marine biologist\u003Cbr \/\u003EPost can be found here \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/enenews.com\/unbelievable-scientists-stunned-3-rare-giant-oarfish-found-dead-recent-weeks-california-flesh-falling-apart-body-parts-missing-biologist-course-im-very-concerned-reason-theyre-dying-being-tes\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/enenews.com\/unbelievable-scientists-stunned-3-rare-giant-oarfish-found-dead-recent-weeks-california-flesh-falling-apart-body-parts-missing-biologist-course-im-very-concerned-reason-theyre-dying-being-tes\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPlease note that \u003Cspan class=\"authorname\"\u003Ebluetick on enenews also commented on the mystery having 30 years of experience:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E       \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"comment-meta commentmetadata\"\u003E  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/enenews.com\/unbelievable-scientists-stunned-3-rare-giant-oarfish-found-dead-recent-weeks-california-flesh-falling-apart-body-parts-missing-biologist-course-im-very-concerned-reason-theyre-dying-being-tes\/comment-page-2#comment-697852\"\u003E  August 21, 2015 at 9:37 am\u003C\/a\u003E      \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003Ei find it interesting after being on the water fishing for 30+  years that nothing in a starving ocean ate so much as even a nibble off  of the huge fish…in most cases i can toss a bait fish over board and its  gone in a couple mins at most. maybe just a fluke or maybe a dieing  ocean….maybe they dont taste good…\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-oarfish-catalina-20150817-story.html\"\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/a\u003E, Aug 17, 2015 (emphasis added): Biggest oarfish seen at Catalina Island in years washes ashore… marking a rare sighting of the deep-sea creature… [It] was 24 feet long when it was alive, said Annie MacAulay, a marine biologist… its tail [was] severed off — which oarfish have been known to do to shed weight and save energy, she said… The one found Monday had an empty pocket in its stomach, which MacAulay said could mean it recently stopped eating, a potential sign of distress or sickness… a handful of oarfish [have] washed up on California’s coasts in recent years. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/14-foot-fish-found-washed-ashore-catalina-island-article-1.2328797\"\u003ENew York Daily News\u003C\/a\u003E, Aug 17, 2015: \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EStunned scientists fished for clues\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E Monday to explain the origin of the giant oarfish that washed up on the shores of Catalina — the third massive marine oarfish found on the island in two years’ time [see articles below for additional finds]… The sleek silver fish was missing its pectoral fins and tail… perplexed researchers are looking for a reason why. Dr. Misty Paig-Tran from California State University Fullerton collected tissue samples… to determine whether it had any toxins in its system. But questions still remain as to why these fish are dying… The conservationist also speculated that water pollution could be to blame. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/oarfish-678267-fish-macaulay.html\"\u003EOC Register\u003C\/a\u003E, Aug 19, 2015: This is the third oarfish to be documented on the island [since] 2013… MacAulay said \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Ethe animal didn’t come to shore because of an illness or shark attack.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E When she dissected the fish, \u003Cb\u003Eshe discovered a belly full of krill…\u003C\/b\u003E “It’s very strange, and the other one in June was the same,” she said. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.gazettes.com\/news\/giant-oarfish-found-on-catalina-is-third-to-wash-up\/article_777987b4-4623-11e5-95ad-d3226254a7e5.html\"\u003EGazettes (Long Beach)\u003C\/a\u003E, Aug 19, 2015: MacAulay said this is the third such creature to wash up on the island in the past two years…. Before then, MacAulay said she isn’t aware of any others… … Sightings are extremely rare. Those that come near the shore are usually distressed. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/news\/article\/14-foot-long-sea-creature-found-on-Catalina-6452518.php\"\u003EAP\u003C\/a\u003E, Aug 19, 2015: Residents of Santa Catalina Island have found a second sea monster on their shores in just three months… {MacAulay] says to see two in a three-month period after never seeing one her entire career is incredibly exciting. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mountainandseaeducationaladventures\/posts\/885230391553989\"\u003EMountain and Sea Educational Adventures\u003C\/a\u003E, Aug 17, 2015: Unbelievable! The second oarfish that we found washed up on the shores of Catalina Island. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/environment-and-nature\/20150818\/scientists-discover-dead-14-foot-oarfish-on-catalina-island\"\u003EMacAulay\u003C\/a\u003E: \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E“You’re lucky to see one oarfish in your lifetime, so to see 2 within 3 months… I’ve been working on this island for 17 years and I had never seen any until June.”\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.gazettes.com\/news\/giant-oarfish-found-on-catalina-is-third-to-wash-up\/article_777987b4-4623-11e5-95ad-d3226254a7e5.html\"\u003EMacAulay\u003C\/a\u003E: “I’ve been working here for more than 20 years out on the water and \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EI’ve never seen one… three have been found so recently… it is sad.”\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2015\/08\/19\/oarfish_catalina_island.php\"\u003EMacAulay\u003C\/a\u003E: “It’s so unusual that all these years I don’t see any oarfish, and then have seen two in the last few months.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/oarfish-678267-fish-macaulay.html\"\u003EMacAulay\u003C\/a\u003E: “To see two of them in a three-month period when I’ve been working on the island for 20 years and in \u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Emarine biology for almost 30 years… of course (I’m) very concerned because… for some reason they’re dying.” \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoreader.com\/news\/2015\/jun\/30\/fishing-report\/\"\u003ESan Diego Reader\u003C\/a\u003E, Jun 30, 2015: First-ever oarfish caught on rod… That it was in shallow water for an oarfish gives the implication that it was unhealthy… crew tried to gaff and raise the 20-foot fish to the boat. The soft flesh only tore, and they had to give up… \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.petethomasoutdoors.com\/2015\/07\/in-what-might-be-a-first-oarfish-is-caught-aboard-fishing-boat.html\"\u003EPete Thomas Outdoors\u003C\/a\u003E, Jul 8, 2015: The bizarre catch… was snagged and barely alive… a crewman attempted to collect it with a gaff, but the flesh was too soft for the gaff to hold… for some reason Catalina has become a hot spot for sightings. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.976-tuna.com\/e107_plugins\/landing\/audio.php?btrack.153.1435622178\"\u003EBruce Smith, captain of sport fishing boat\u003C\/a\u003E, Jun 29, 2015: “We caught an oarfish… at Catalina… in shallow water like 5 fathoms [30 feet]… It was pretty much dead… I know they washed up on the beach here a couple times… It was very surprising, it’s a once in lifetime thing.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-rare-deep-sea-oarfish-found-20150603-story.html\"\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/a\u003E, Jun 3, 2015: Rare oarfish found dead on Catalina… The first sighting of a live oarfish was only recorded 2001, when one was caught on film by the U.S. Navy… \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-giant-oarfish-wash-ashore-california-coast-20131020-story.html\"\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/a\u003E, Oct 10, 2013: 2 giant oarfish wash onto California coast, making scientists curious — It’s been the week of the oarfish along the Southern California coast. A 14-foot oarfish carcass was discovered Friday by a snorkeler off the beach in Oceanside. Earlier in the week, an 18-foot oarfish was found dead off Catalina Island.\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/radioactivechat.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7803317410913181562\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/radioactivechat.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/When-Sea-Monsters-Wash-Ashore.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1585124575966792017\/posts\/default\/7803317410913181562"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1585124575966792017\/posts\/default\/7803317410913181562"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/radioactivechat.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/When-Sea-Monsters-Wash-Ashore.html","title":"☢ When Sea Monsters Wash Ashore ☢"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"JD"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17735949883966509795"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_eYNXA0gKwI0\/TO7PGUn92oI\/AAAAAAAAAAU\/q9qrJpujpqM\/S220\/Redballononmymailbox.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-jPuzo6BSzdM\/Vdc-9IQdobI\/AAAAAAAADL4\/JRKu8GGZhVg\/s72-c\/Giant-oarfish-washes-up-on-Santa-Catalina-Island-www.RadioactiveChat.Blogspot.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"},"georss$featurename":{"$t":"Santa Catalina Island, California 90704, USA"},"georss$point":{"$t":"33.3833613 -118.41757640000003"},"georss$box":{"$t":"7.861326799999997 -159.72617040000003 58.905395799999994 -77.108982400000031"}}]}});