18 no-entry zone holdouts stay put

[kristopher]

Source: Yomiuri Shimbun

"If I move my 91-year-old mother, she will die. So we, together with my husband, stay here, possibly to be exposed to radiation and die," said a 62-year-old woman over the phone.

She is one of 18 people who remain within the no-entry zone, the area within the 20-kilometer radius of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

The no-entry zone was set by the government on April 22 on the basis of the Disaster Countermeasures Basic Law. People who enter or stay in the zone can be punished with fines of up to 100,000 yen or be taken into custody.

Although local government officials are attempting to persuade them to leave the area for their own safety, residents are refusing to do so, saying, "We can't abandon the animals we keep," or "It's too dangerous to move our bedridden mother now."...

Read more: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110523005018.htm

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Damage isn't just a quantity you can tally on a spreadsheet.

[aquart]

1. The tragedies caused by other people's greed and carelessness.

Nothing new under the sun.

[Moostache]

2. sad but true

The one constant in all of human history? Greed.

Greed for money.
Greed for sex.
Greed for food.
Greed for land.
Greed for power.

You are 100% right....nothing new about it at all.

[iemitsu]

3. it is awfully hard for the elderly to relaocate.

especially if left largely on their own.
it is criminal that corporations are allowed to poison the air we breathe and the water we drink. and these people face fines or arrest for staying in their home.
americans would be treated no differently.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Reminds me of the old folks who's families have lived on land...

here in WV for generations, being run off by Mountain Top Removal mining rolling car sized boulders down the mountains onto their homes.

The energy mongers let nothing or nobody stand in the way of their grand PLANS.

We now live in, "A World Of Shit"

[kristopher]

5. Exactly. +1