emergencies, he says, i strongly question whether nuclear energy is helping peace and life. both he and tumaka believe nuclear energy should not exist especially in earthquake and tsunami-broken japan. do you believe the benefit of nuclear benefit outweighs the cost some for me, he says. only 13 years old when the bomb fell on nagasaki. he was less than two miles from the epi center spared from the burns but sees the long-term health impact of radiation. nuclear power, unless 100% secure, should never be allowed in any form near mankind, they say. japan has seen darker days. rose from the ashes to become this a world class country and economic super power. the world war ii survivors believe that japan will emerge from this nuclear crisis. they just wonder if it will be with new lessons learned.
lifetimes. it s so scary says the 75-year-old v evacuee. this echoes of 66 years ago when these men were children. they survived japan s first nuclear crisis when the u.s. dropped atob to himmic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki ending world war ii. it felt like being hit by a baseball bat in the head and that was only the beginning says ewash appear he was just 16 years old then and living a mile from hiroshima s epi center and among the killed his mother and sister and every single one of his relatives except for one aunt. are you a living example of the price of nuclear technology? i am, he says. we are the first victims of the nuclear era, as he watches a crisis at fukushima and the impact on their generation now hit twice by nuclear
certainly, if you have an after shock on the 6 on the rither scale it is an earthquake. they are coming from the same epi center and almost certainly the result of same tutontic movement and the earth s crusts that are moving. when you see buildings shaking like this. you think of side to side. but a lot of the motion is up and down . you lift sea water up and down . it makes enormous waves which is a tsunami. a lot of people are wondering what is going on in the planet. we are talking about the ring of fire and there are earthquakes in other parts of the world. not too long ago in new zealand and haiti and chile. is there increase in activity or something that you are
buildings can withstand earthquakes. you saw build national tokyo swaying incredibly but not collapsing. of course, this was away from the epicenter, but shows that they are well prepared in many ways, that they also have told all the citizens to have like an emergency kit on standby. they have water and food that can keep them going for a few days, at least, but then when you see the footage from up north and you see entire buildings being carried away by the water, a country can be incredibly well organized and incredibly well prepared, but sometimes when mother nature throws something like that at an area, it s just impossible to be able to to cope with it. now, we do understand that the japanese government has also asked the u.s. military for assistance. thereby assistance coming in from around the region, but at this point the the urgency, of course, will be trying to get to those areas that haven t been accessed at this point, and i think as the sun comes up, we are going to
neither city of sendai along the coast fires triggered by the quake burn. these flames at an oil refinery rage out of control. all of this as the government tries to take stock of the destruction and coordinate a response. there are a number of confirmed deaths. dozens of injuries, but it s just too early to know the full scope of this disaster. in bustling tokyo, a city of 13 million, about 230 miles away from the epicenter, they felt powerful aftershocks. train stations shut down. commuters panicked. babies cried.