The Gallant Relief Effort

摘要

I met a man in an evacuation center in Fukushima City. He had come from the 20-kilometer exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant with his granddaughter and was under incredible stress," recalls John Sparrow, Asia Pacific spokes-person for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. "He was worried about his wife, who was missing and probably dead; about his house, which was no longer there; his land, which was contaminated with radiation and saline deposits; and his granddaughter, who had to find a new school and risked discrimination when her new classmates discovered where she came from. I asked him if he was worried about radioactive leaks. 'Oh, that,' he said, and looked at me with a puzzled expression."