2. Interview with D
My condition has been good. Nor are my children stressed. I have never seen anyone suffering from rumoured conditions like nose bleed or nausea.
Complaints to the current state are too many to describe. 17 people used to be in rur room, now 12. Some have moved to Aizu. I have been used to this lack of privacy.
Volunteers are very friendly.
It is appreciated if we can have drinks other than water and green tea – coffee has not been delivered recently. Drinking water is no problem to me though. Plenty of glass and paper cups are available.
I do not know how to use computers provided for the internet. My mobile phone is not a smartphone either. Information is from newspaper from Fukushima and TV.
Even our mayor would not know what is to be done in the future. Shelters in Fukushima do not allow those who have been outside Fukushima, saying they are fully occupied. If you have been remaining in Fukushima, the prefecture government will provide up to 60,000 yen/month for renting private properties. I do not know if it is that the local government is not willing to allow provisions for people like us or that problems are too hard. Even if we received an offer from other prefectures, since my children are going to school here, making a decision will be difficult. Children must be most prioritised.
While I am looking for a new job, since they recruit full time employees on the same condition as usual, I am having difficulty with it. My age matters too.
As I am not familiar with this place, it is difficult even to guess the distance or the exact place when I look for information on free magazines. Having left our car, we can only work at places accessible by bicycles or on foot.
To be honest, the amount of money you could spend is the major matter.
I wish if we had a map where the shelter is centred and employees’ information centres are present with the exact distances.
If I will be in Fukushima, I may have to move to another shelter for the third time. Cannot tell at the moment.
3rd temporary return is not scheduled yet. I want to collect our car.
My (ex-)colleagues are not here. One of my colleagues went to the plant earlier and will be working there in June.
How to deal with the plants: if we have to get close enough, it is important that a manager with sufficient experience and strategies is in the vanguard. Before this, we need to get rid of anything with high radiation though.
As a person who was working inside, it was the explosion rather than witnessing the status that made me think it was impossible to survive. I managed to go farther than recommended by the government though, since we understood the seriousness. Nobody will be able to live anywhere within 5km in my opinion.
Radioactivity and radiation – a sort of light from a radioactive material is radiation, that of external exposure. Radioactivity will cause internal radiation exposure and its effects will be way stronger. TV has been speaking of radiation dose (i.e. external exposure), not of radioactivity. We have to be careful with radioactivity.
If we want the government to do something, as it will be suspended somewhere, we will get nothing. Town hall’s request will be stranded at prefecture and prefecture will discuss the nation’s request forever. It is inevitable.
No matter if you evacuate or not, you have to be well prepared.