福岛真的安全吗？大批居民开始返乡，英摄影师的热成像图却让人心惊

Unsettling thermal portraits show Fukushima residents returning home
令人不安的热成像显示，福岛居民正在返回家园

来源：CNN 翻译：世界播

It's been nearly nine years since a 9.1 magnitude earthquake and an ensuing tsunami with 30-foot-plus waves hit Japan's east coast, causing a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. The plant was flooded with seawater and left without emergency power, leading to multiple explosions and the release of radioactive contaminants.

9年前，日本东海岸发生了9.1级地震，随后又发生了30多英尺高的海啸，导致福岛第一核电站发生核灾难。核电站被海水淹没，没有应急电源，导致多次爆炸和放射性污染物的释放。

In the immediate aftermath of the event, more than 150,000 people living within 20 kilometers of the facility or 10 kilometers of a nearby sister plant, were evacuated and an exclusion zone was established. The event is one of only two in history to be classified at the highest level of the International Nuclear Event Scale -- the other being Chernobyl, in 1986.

事故发生后，20公里范围内的15多万人被疏散，并设立了隔离区。该事件是历史上仅有的两个被列为国际核事件等级最高的事件之一，另一个是1986年的切尔诺贝利核事故。

Radiation contamination has left large swathes of land off limits, likely forever. But from 2016, some residents have made their way back to areas declared safe by the government.

辐射污染使大片土地成为禁区，可能永远都是这样。但是从2016年开始，一些居民已经回到了被政府宣布安全的地区。

British photographer Giles Price, whose work often focuses on how human presence affects the environment, traveled to Namie and Iitate, two towns exposed to extreme levels of radioactivity following the disaster, to capture inhabitants returning home. The resulting photographs have been collected in the book "Restricted Residence."

英国摄影师贾尔斯·普莱斯的作品经常聚焦于人类活动对环境的影响，他前往灾后受到极高辐射水平的浪江町和饭馆村拍摄居民返乡的照片。这些照片被收录在《限制居住区》一书中。

Around 27,000 people used to live in the two towns. So far, only a fraction have come back. "The towns were in a state of reconstruction, with traces of life and activity during the day, much less at night," said Price in a phone interview, explaining that residents would have to leave at night time and were only allowed to work during the day. "But now, more residents live here."

过去大约有27,000人居住在这两个城镇。到目前为止，只有一小部分回来了。“这些城镇处于重建状态，白天有生命和活动的痕迹，晚上就较少了，”普莱斯在电话采访中说。他解释说，居民必须在晚上离开，只能在白天呆在这里。“但现在，越来越多的居民住在这里。”

Radiation doesn't spread evenly and it's always difficult to establish with certainty how dangerous it is to live or work in a contaminated area. The Japanese government only confirmed the first radiation-linked death of a Fukushima plant worker in 2018, seven years after the disaster. But health problems do not only arise from radiation sickness: The World Health Organization notes that "the displaced Fukushima population is suffering from psycho-social and mental health impact following relocation, ruptured social links of people who lost homes and employment, disconnected family ties and stigmatization."

辐射并不是均匀分布的，而且很难确定在污染地区生活或工作有多危险。日本政府直到2018年才证实福岛第一名与辐射有关的核电站工人死亡，那是灾难发生7年之后。但健康问题不仅来自辐射病：世界卫生组织指出，“福岛流离失所的居民在搬迁后受到了心理、社会和心理健康方面的影响，他们失去了家园和工作，社会关系破裂，家庭关系中断，还有耻辱感。”

Fukushima is set to host events during the upcoming Olympics, as part of a greater plan by the Japanese government to reinvigorate the area, although Greenpeace claims that radiation hotspots were found at an Olympic site where the torch relay will kick off from next March, around 12 miles south of the nuclear plant.

福岛将在即将到来的奥运会期间举办活动，这是日本政府振兴该地区更大计划的一部分，尽管绿色和平组织称，在离核电站以南约12英里的一个奥运场地发现了辐射热点，明年3月火炬将在那里开始传递。

People have returned to the area for a number of reasons, according to Price. "Some because the government was starting to cut the subsidies being paid to evacuees. Others, on the flip side of that, because of financial incentives to move into newly built homes, which attracted new residents who weren't even from this part of Japan. But the majority of people who have moved back are elderly residents, who have less of a concern about their health."

根据普莱斯的说法，人们回到这个地区有很多原因。“部分是因为政府开始削减支付给撤离者的补贴。另一方面，其他人因为经济上的激励措施而搬进新建的房屋，这吸引了甚至不是来自日本这一地区的新居民。但大多数搬回来的人都是老年居民，他们不太在乎自己的健康。”

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