Nuclear Impacts and the 2020 Olympics
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A Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium Nuclear impacts and the 2020 Olympics 北海道 J-Village, located just 20km from the site of TEPCO′s 2011 nuclear accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, has been designated as the departure point for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay to Tokyo′s New National Stadium under a Sapporo Olympics (1972) banner of a “Recovery Olympics″. The Japanese government has been trying to cut aid to evacuees by 2020, although 32,769 people still stay in shelters outside Fukushima prefecture and 9,323 in prefectural shelters (2019 Reconstruction Agency Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake (2018) announcement) where their day-to-day lives remain insecure and complicated by stress and psychological trauma from Tomari radiation exposure. This year officials tried to remove 80% of Fukushima′s 3000 radiation monitoring posts installed across (HEPCO) the prefecture after the 2011 accident, but abandoned the plan following strong local opposition. It bears remembering that the Sapporo Dome nuclear emergency declaration has not yet been lifted. Prospects for completing cleanup operations at the site of the 2011 ▲ (football) ▲ Level 7 nuclear accident, measuring higher than any in history, are poor; moreover, serious problems of radiation exposure are ▲ ▲ (March 12, 2019) increasingly affecting workers at the clean-up site. Prime Minister Abe continues to disregard the gravity of the situation. Near the Azuma Baseball Stadium is a multipurpose space where Moreover, in the interest of increasing exports in nuclear power technology, he has been using the Olympic Games as a containers of decontaminated soil from throughout the city are piled high. ▲ platform for conveying to the world that Japan's nuclear power plants are safe″, and ″reconstruction has ended″. ▲ “ ▲ Tokachi-Oki earthquake ▲ (2003) Fukushima′s Okuma-machi: Designated ▲ B Higashidori (Tohoku EPCO / TEPCO) Takahama Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Oma Mihama (TEPCO) (KEPCO) (KEPCO) (J-POWER) ▲ ▲ Niigata Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake ▲ Rokkasho reprocessing (2007) plant(JNFL) Oi Tsuruga Niigata Chuetsu 青森 ▲ (KEPCO) (JAPC) Shika Earthquake ▲▲ Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku Earthquake (2008) (RIKUDEN) (2004) (March , 2019) ▲ Onagawa Roads leading to residents' homes have all been blocked by barricades. MONJU・FUGEN ▲ (Tohoku EPCO) (JAIA) Noto Hanto Earthquake (2007) C Nagano Olympics 秋田 ▲ ▲ ▲▲ Western Tottori Earthquake (2000) Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake 岩手 ▲ (2011) ▲▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ Shimane ▲ Fukushima Dai-ichi ▲ (TEPCO) (CHUDEN) ▲ ▲ Kaminoseki ▲ Fukushima Dai-ni (February, 2017) (CHUDEN) ▲ (TEPCO) Nagano, which hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics at great ecological and 山形 ▲ public cost, has been strapped with debt for the last 20 years. ▲ 宮城 Genkai ▲ The Hakuba Jump Arena is empty even during ski season. (KYUDEN) ▲ Saitama Stadium 2002 (football) ▲ Miyagi Stadium ▲ (football) ▲ ▲ Kumamoto Earthquake (2016) ▲ Southern Hyogo Prefecture A Fukushima Azuma Tokai and Tokai Dai-ni Saitama Super Arena Baseball Stadium Earthquake (1995) ▲ (JAPC) (basketball)新潟 (baseball, softball) ▲ 福島 ▲ Geiyo Earthquake (2001) Hamaoka Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (ENERGIA) Kasumigaseki Country Club Fukushima Dai-ni Nuclear Power Plant Sendai (golf) (KYUDEN) ▲ J-village ▲ Nagano Olympics B Torch Relay (1998) Departure Point 石川 ▲ Ikata (YONDEN) 富山 栃木 Ibaraki Kashima Stadium C 群馬 (football) 茨城 Asagiri Training 長野Grounds for National Stadium 福井 the Japan Ground Self-Defense 埼玉 Torch Relay Forces (shooting) Finish Point Nuclear power plant 東京 千葉 岐阜 山梨 In operation Yokohama International Musashino-no-Mori Park(cycling) Active fault Major earthquakes Stadium(football) 神奈川 Tokyo Stadium Operations halted line since 1995 京都 (soccer, pentathlon, rugby) Decommissioned/ (Earthquakes with names specified Musashino-no-Mori Sports Plaza by the Japan Meteorological Agency) 兵庫 滋賀 愛知 静岡 (badminton, pentathlon, Decommissioning Fuji International wheelchair basketball) Speedway (cycling) Under construction/ Plate boundary ▲ Major active volcanos Under consideraion (Volcanoes identified by the JMA Volcanic 大阪 Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach Eruption Forecast Liaison Council as (surfing) 2019 年 7 月 8 日時点 三重 As of January 9, 2020 “requiring enhanced monitoring and Izu Velodrome Enoshima Yacht Harbor 出典 observation for disaster prevention") 奈良 Izu Mountain Bike (sailing) Yokohama Stadium Sources: Course (cycling) (baseball, softball) Earthquake,< 地震・活火山 Active volcanos: > 気象庁ウェブサイト、< Japan Meteorological Association 活断層 > J-SHIS「地震ハザードステーション」、<原発 (JMA) website; Active faults: J-SHIS "Earthquake > JAERO/JAIF Hazard Station" ウェブサイト; Nuclear < power プレート境界 plants: Japan > 瀬野哲三「日本付近の新プレート境界と Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF) website;50 Plate 万年前の変動」『科学』57(2), Boundaries: Tetsuzo Seno, 1987、)p85.1987, ``New Plate Boundar- 和歌山 ies Near Japan and Changes 500,000 Years Ago,'' Science, 57 (2): 85. ▲.