Fukushima Photo Essay: a Drone's Eye View

Hallie Siegel (2973169) writes "Here's stunning photos and incredible interactive aerial maps of the devastation, cleanup and reconstruction effort in the region around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Adam Klaptocz of Drone Adventures in collaboration with Taichi Furuhashi, researcher at the Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo show the current state of the region."

Comments

The Long Road Home

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine telling a child that he or she can never return home to Tomioka because it has been turned into a storage facility for radioactive soil from other regions. Imagine the psychological devastation. It is time that we close the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant in California, which sits above multiple faults capable of producing the type of quake that destroyed Fukushima Daichi. What do you do with a parking lot full of radioactive topsoil?

Re:The Long Road Home

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine telling a child that he or she can never return home to Tomioka because it has been turned into a storage facility for radioactive soil from other regions. Imagine the psychological devastation.

This is a great example of a knee-jerk reaction and "think of the children".

The child generally has less attachment to the old home than the adult. That kind of attachment comes with nostalgia.
Compare the psychological devastation between "There was a disaster so we are going to move and you and your friends are going to school in another part of town." compared to "I have a new job in another town so we have to move and leave all your friends behind."

Yep, that just happened, you brought up an example where a parent getting a new job is worse than a nuclear disaster.

Stunning?

[Threni]

Perhaps you'd care to mention which photos you believe are stunning? They all look distinctly average to me.

Just to be clear

[JanneM]

Just to be clear here: the devastation is all due to the tsunami, not to the reactor failure. Foreign media seem to often forget or ignore that the disaster was the earthquake and tsunami. That's what killed almost 20k people dead and destroyed the homes of many hundreds of thousands of people.

Re:Just to be clear

[AmiMoJo]

Much of the damage is due to the fact that no-one has been living there to maintain the environment for a few years and nature has started to take over again. Plant roots and branches, blocked drains, storm damage etc.