Killing the Darlings of Minamisoma (trailer)

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Run time: 02:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RejB7NIqAfw   Posted on YouTube: May 30, 2011 By YouTube Member: DocumentingIan Views on YouTube: 166   Posted on DU: May 31, 2011 By DU Member: Generic Other Views on DU: 683

 
Uploaded by DocumentingIan on May 29, 2011

This trailer is part 4 of 4 of "In the Radiation Zone: the Children of Minamisoma", a behind-the-scenes look at what happened during the filming of the feature documentary "Killing the Darlings of Minamisoma".

STORY: The children of Minamisoma City, Japan are living amid high levels of radiation and toxic rain after the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Will the children be evacuated as some experts advise, or will they stay where they are inside the 30 km zone and head back to school as the government has ordered?

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1. everyone in the film was so genuinely concerned, polite, and

willing to work together to solve this tremendous problem except the government official at the end of the film. he was a defensive ass.

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2. When was this video made?

On April 26, the Prime Minister's office announced the creation of "Planned Evacuation Zones" and "Emergency Evacuation Preparation Zones" . The "Planned Evacuation Zones" are areas within the 30km stay indoors zone where radiation hotspots exist and whose radiation levels have consistently been above maximums set by the ICRP, IAEA, etc.　The Japanese government has been urging everyone who is still in these zones to evacuate within about a month (today is a little more than a month after that announcement).

"Emergency Evacuation Preparation Zones" are areas within the 30km stay indoors zone where radiation levels could exceed maximum allowable values at any time, so people who are still in these areas are being advised to make preparations for possible evacuation of these areas on a moment's notice.

This information appears on both the Prime Minister/Cabinet's website
http://www.kantei.go.jp/saigai/20110411keikakuhinan.html

and the City of Minami Soma's web site
http://www.city.minamisoma.lg.jp/shinsai2/hinansiji.jsp

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3. Looks like a documentary in time for the Oscars! I sure hope I get to see the whole documentary

In the Radiation Zone: The Children of Minamisoma City, Part 1
I have just returned from two weeks in the city of Minamisoma.

Minamisoma is in Fukushima Prefecture, the home of the damaged nuclear power plant. Not only was it devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, but it is still dealing with the continued threat of radiation contamination.

When so many other foreigners have fled Japan and the radiation threat, my good friend/ cameraman/ producer Colin O'Neill flew over from the UK last month. We had decided to make a feature documentary about something to do with the events of March 11, but we still hadn't decided what our focus would be.

We initially decided that we would split our two week filming block between two locations. The first would be the city of Minamisoma.

What drew us to Minamisoma was the story of the children of the town and how they would be affected by the exposure to such abnormally high levels of radiation. Once we got there, we were so blown away by what we uncovered that we decided to abandon our original plan and to spend the entire two weeks there.

As I edit what will be our next feature documentary, I will be posting some behind the scenes footage and video diaries that will show what it was like to be staying in the zone, 20-30 km from the damaged nuclear power plant.

Make sure you watch the first three parts!
I sure hope I get to see the whole documentary

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4. Radiology experts find up to 45 microsieverts/hour near school zone — 90 times higher than Chernobyl

The government should consider evacuating children and pregnant women from a wider area around the Fukushima No. 1 power plant because radiation levels remain high even outside the 20-km no-go zone, Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International, said Thursday in Tokyo.

Naidoo’s team of radiology experts found hot spots that had a maximum hourly reading of 45 microsieverts of radiation alongside a school zone. <...>

Jan Beranek, an expert on radiology from Greenpeace International who joined Naidoo’s trip to Fukushima, recommended that the government widen the evacuation zone to at least 60 or 70 km from the power plant.

He said there were parks and public spaces where the level of radiation activity hit 9 microsieverts per hour.

Even some nursery schools that have already undergone a decontamination process had a relatively high reading of 0.5 microsievert per hour, he said. That would translate into an annual exposure of 5 millisieverts, which was the evacuation threshold for Chernobyl, Beranek said. <...>


http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110610a6.html