Fukushima seeks ways to succeed without the stigma of radioactivity
Fukushima (Japan), 26 feb (EFE).-put Fukushima standing without the stigma of radioactivity is the aim of the authorities of this Japanese province, almost a year after the nuclear accident works to avoid isolation and reinforce communication between agencies. “We are in the phase of recovery, but still awaits us reconstruction,” explains Masami Watanabe, Superintendent of the provincial police and one of the “heroes of Fukushima” which last October traveled to Spain to collect the Prince of Asturias Award of Concord. Watanabe receives EfE in a room where hanging a photograph which appears with the Princes of Asturias – “I was impressed and grateful for this sign of recognition of Japan”, says about the award-while there is a sway of agents working between stacks of papers in the adjacent offices. In the corridors of the building, in the center of Fukushima city, yet are cracks medium repair open by the earthquake of 9 degrees that last year he shook the area and became the epicenter of the worst crisis nuclear from Chernobyl. The disaster forced the police to assume roles previously unimaginable in this quiet mountainous province, such as radioactivity measurements, monitor the central of Daiichi to prevent “acts of nuclear terrorism” or to prevent theft in the thousands of homes abandoned by evacuees. Watanabe, under whose command has created a special Department of disaster to deal with the problems...
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