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Weeds grew in front of the main entrance to Futaba City Hall.
Even now, 10 years after the accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, no one can live in Futaba City, Fukushima Prefecture, where the nuclear power plant is located. Since March 2020, people can freely enter and exit through the JR Futaba station, but the city hall has been closed since the day after the accident. I entered the city hall as if time had stopped. (Fukuoka Noriyuki)
◆ Mouse-eaten tracks, threadbare umbrellas
Convenience store lunch box on the left at City Hall. The expiration date is printed as “March 13”.
The interior of the four-story government building was dark and quiet. “It feels bad to be alone. Silence.” Mr. Yasuharu Hashimoto (47), a village employee who was accompanying him, leaked it. With the permission of the people, I interviewed myself on December 18 of last year.
A broken umbrella at the entrance. In the communication engine room, empty containers for convenience store lunch boxes were stacked and delivered to evacuees. It’s dirty, but it doesn’t smell anything.
In the Planning Division, where the Office of Nuclear Energy Countermeasures was located, there are traces of mice eating candy in the desk drawer and manure is lying on the sofa.
◆ Continue doubting “instrument failure” …
“Radiation surge” “A worker” No breath, no pulse “”. On the blackboard in the hall, there was a piece of paper with the status of the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear power plants written down. This is a duplicate and the original is stored elsewhere.
March 12, 2011 at 1:05 am. In the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 situation, it is written that “the containment vessel pressure has increased abnormally”, followed by “check whether or not there is an instrument failure”. Even in situations where nuclear fuel could be exposed, he suspected that the instrument had failed.
A replica of the imitation paper kept in Futaba City Hall and describes the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear power plants after the earthquake. Characters such as “increased radiation” and “abnormal increase in containment pressure” are written.
“I thought there would be no explosion. I wonder if the good guy would be wrong …”. Hiromi Takeuchi (67), who remained in the city hall until the end as head of the planning section, reveals. He believed that multiple protection would work as explained by the government and TEPCO and would not cause an accident.
◆ “I was also used in the myth of security”
At 3:36 pm on March 12, Mr. Takeuchi saw the hydrogen explosion from Unit 1 in the public parking lot. “It was a sound that echoed in my stomach.” Smoke rose above the forest.
An entrance table in the town hall. The calendar is still “March 11”
I evacuated to the government building for about an hour with dozens of SDF personnel who came to support and thought about future measures. All he had experienced in the disaster drill was the assumption that the nuclear power plant would be shut down safely.
“In the corner of my head, I thought I would be back in town in a few days.” The prediction was completely wrong. “He was also using the security myth.”
