NHK Special Documentary - Collaborating to create a radioactive fallout map

This is a very interesting and informative documentary about the radioactive fallout in Japan. It is 90 min long.
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Written by Musubi
Wednesday, 15 June 2011

NHK ran several special documentary programs leading up to the 3rd month since the March 11th earthquake and tsunami.
One of them was this 90 minute special about Shinzo Kimura, a scientist specializing in radiation hygiene. He once worked for the National Institute of Radiological Sciences where he was on the research team for the Tokaimura nuclear accident. Kimura later transferred to a research center at the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare where he visited Chernobyl to perform his own research. After the Fukushima accident, Kimura was ordered to refrain from engaging in any sort of research. Kimura left the agency because he felt his hands would be tied from not being able to utilize all that he had learned from researching both Chernobyl and Tokaimura. A network of scientists assist him with his independent research of the Fukushima crisis.

Since the accident, Kimura has been commuting to the area to assess the radiation. He heads into evacuated villages and takes samples of soil and plants. One of the projects being undertaken by Kimura and Masaharu Okano, an expert and pioneer in radiation research, is to create a radioactive fallout contamination map as a way to visualize the amount of radioactivity from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. This documentary was a result of a 2-month long collaboration by scientists. The video is split into 7 parts. I'll also be creating mirrors of these in the event they are blocked.