Did we make a mistake on me? Do you remember asking? Maybe we can find the answer to that question now. We disrespected the power of nature. We assumed that no tsunami higher than ten meters would reach the plant. We believed this for 40 years. We believed that we were controlling nature. It was the human ego.
Let this quote stand aside for a while!
Let's start by commemorating those who lost their lives while duly fulfilling the task given to him just to provide for his family.
These heroes are sometimes firefighters, sometimes emergency service personnel, sometimes health workers, sometimes search and rescue teams, and sometimes nuclear power plant engineers who have to clean up the mistakes of those who succumb to power and greed without taking into account the power of nature.
Those who are fit will remember the explosion that occurred as a result of the accident in the reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986. Those born in the following years must have heard or read about it.
The death toll, which was officially recorded as 31 people at the beginning, increased to well over 200,000, including the people indirectly killed by the nuclear accident.
Politics is just a hoax and in time all the lies are exposed.
Let's talk about recent history. In March 2011, the largest earthquake in Japanese history took place in Fukushima, Japan. This earthquake of 9.0 magnitude would have a heavy toll on Japan.
Due to the fact that I live in a first degree earthquake zone, I think I know the earthquake and post-earthquake psychology. But the subject of the article is not the earthquake, but the Nuclear Power Plants.
Giant waves after the tsunami that occurred 45 minutes after the earthquake hit the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant and the power plant became inoperable. The electricity was cut off and the diesel-powered generators were disabled.
After the overheating of the reactors, which had to be actively cooled, the cores began to melt. This went down in history as the second largest Nuclear Power Plant Accident in the history of the world and the first in the history of Japan.
The radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant still continues to tour the world despite the intervening 11 years. More than 160 thousand people who were evacuated after the accident still could not return to their old places and lives.
How hard can a task be?
Who would want to go to a closed nuclear power plant reactor that is highly irradiated and at risk of explosion at any moment?
In this mission where death is guaranteed, the only unknown is when and how you will die. You can learn how someone exposed to high radiation dies with a short research. I guess no one wants that kind of death.
We wouldn't be making a mistake if we call those who will fulfill this task a "suicide team". It is the name of the heartbreaking story of 50 volunteers who, with superhuman effort, try to prevent the nucleus that will merge with water from turning into a Hydrogen Bomb;
Fukushima 50
Setsurô Wakamatsu directed the movie with the original title above, which was made in 2020. The cast includes Ken Watanabe, Kôichi Satô, Masato Hagiwara, Takumi Saitoh.
While watching the sacrifices of the heroes, your eyes will tear up, and you will feel nauseous watching the conflict between politics and science. Dirty politics does not fail to show itself everywhere.
I guess this time they got the response they deserved with a "bare butt".
I cannot express the same admiration as acting for the movie whose subject I admire. Maybe it has something to do with Japanese culture. I found it worth watching and recommend it.
The picture was taken as a snapshot while watching the movie. All content belongs to me.