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ATTENTION SEEKING KID – KEOW WEE LOONG
writing & imagery by:
ARKADIUSZ PODNIESIŃSKI
18 lipca, 2016
People interested in Fukushima have almost certainly heard of the ‘sensational’ post by Keow Wee Loong, a 28-year-old man from Malaysia who claims that he travelled illegally around Fukushima’s ‘no-go’ zones. It turns out, however, that his story is almost completely fabricated. Unfortunately, the story by this man, who hid his face behind a gas mask, was so convincing that people swallowed it whole and it rapidly spread around the world. His story and photos were published in on reputable services like TIME, CNN and hundreds of others. And, as the author himself admits, he gave 34 interviews in a single day. The entire story of his trip through the no-go zones, sneaking through the forest and avoiding the police is a fiction by a man seeking fame and attention, as opposed to the real popularity that he undoubtedly generated.
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screenshot of Keow Wee Loong’s Facebook profile – www.facebook.com/uglykiwi and www.facebook.com/KeowPhotography
Keow Wee Loong’s story strongly recalls the story of Elena Filatova, a.k.a. ‘the Kidd of Speed’. This young woman claimed to have made an illegal solo motorcycle trip through the closed, radioactive zone in Chernobyl and hid her face under a motorcycle helmet. In reality, she never drove her motorcycle through the closed zone and all of her photographs were taken outside the zone or during a tourist coach trip, which she went on dressed in motorcycle gear and a helmet.
Keow Wee Loong’s story is similar. Besides having deliberately created a sensational text and portrait photographs depicting him alone in a gas mask with a shopping basket in hand, it quickly became clear that, in principle, his entire text is dishonest, his trip to the no-go zones untrue and the photographs were taken in areas that everyone can access.
I have visited Fukushima many times to document the destruction caused by the disaster at the nuclear power plant, and so I did not have any major problems identifying the sites where Keow Wee Loong took his photographs. It quickly turned out that all of the photos he took were not taken in the red no-go zones as he claimed, but only in the open green zone (sometimes orange) as well as on Road No. 6, which runs through the Fukushima prefecture. All of these places are open and accessible to all.
Keow-Wee-Loong-map
Map with the locations of places where Keow Wee Loong took his photographs. In order to prevent similar behaviour, the locations of some places are approximate.
The green zone in the town of Namie, where the photographer took most of his pictures, have had this status for at least three years and have been open to all since 1 April of this year. In Tomioka, where Keow Wee Loong also took photographs, these zones were open even earlier. Anyone who wished could enter them freely already a few years ago.
Today, the streets of Namie and Tomioka are full of cars and people, which one cannot fail to notice. In Namie, there is a working police station, a petrol station and the first shops have been open. One can also see a lot of repair crews on the streets of Namie and Tomioka, as well as increasing numbers of curious tourists. Radiation in the centre of Namie is approximately 0.1 uSv/h, and is therefore normal; it does not differ from most other cities in Japan and around the world. One doesn’t need a gas mask there, much less a full-face one. It isn’t necessary to hide from the police or hike through the woods for hours to get to Namie or Tomioka. Anyone who wants to can go there without permission.
Only access to the most contaminated zones, referred to as red or no-go zones, located closest to the power plant and contaminated from the radioactive fallout require a special permit. Contrary to the claims of Keow Wee Loong, he never managed to get to these places. Legally or not. Contrary to what he says, a permit can be obtained in just a week – you just have to demonstrate and justify an important public interest. Evidently, however, Keow Wee Long could not justify any public interest.
Why am I writing about all of this?
My interest is not to trivialise the catastrophic consequences of the failures of nuclear power plants. When I was 14 years old, I had to drink liquid iodine, which would help stop the absorption of the radioactive iodine isotope coming from the damaged reactor in Chernobyl. For these and other reasons, I have devoted the last 8 years to the subject of Chernobyl (I have been there dozens of times), as well as with the subject of Fukushima from the moment the disaster in Japan happened (I have visited 4 times in the past year, spending more than a month in total there). During this time, I have seen the effects of nuclear disasters enough to be opposed to this form of energy production.
I am, however, a strong opponent of seeking sensationalism, 15 minutes of fame and the money that comes with it, which has become synonymous for me with Keow Wee Loong. Photographers and writers of unreliable and inaccurate texts, which are then replicated by hundreds of media outlets around the world, create a false picture of the current situation in Fukushima. This is particularly important here as, in contrast to Chernobyl, the consequences of the disaster are still fresh and painful. To date, nearly 100,000 evacuees are still out of their homes. Many of them are following the progress of the disaster recovery works and often base their decision to return (or not) on media reports.
I think that the international community, Japanese society and, above all, the evacuated residents should have reliable information about the places where they once lived and where I hope they will shortly be able to return.
Arkadiusz Podniesiński
Photographer
www.podniesinski.pl
P.S. I only very rarely ask for my articles to be shared. This is an exception because it’s really important. Share it!
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"I have visited Fukushima many times to document the destruction caused by the disaster at the nuclear power plant, and so I did not have any major problems identifying the sites where Keow Wee Loong took his photographs. It quickly turned out that all of the photos he took were not taken in the red no-go zones as he claimed, but only in the open green zone (sometimes orange) as well as on Road No. 6, which runs through the Fukushima prefecture. All of these places are open and accessible to all."
- Polish photographer Arkadiusz Podniesiński who has photographed Chernobyl and Fukushima No-Go zones for real.
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日本地方政府力推再生能源!!! (01/3/2016 工商時報)
自2011年日本福島核災後,日本地方都市爭相發展再生能源,也被外界視為日本電力產業進行重整的最新階段。
■Japanese cities are entering the renewable-energy business, the latest phase in a shake-up of the nation's power sector in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.
(蕭麗君 報導)在福島核災後,日本地方都市所屬企業對再生能源進行大量投資,企圖減少日本對海外能源的倚賴。
到目前為止,日本約有14個都市已成立相關公司,利用當地可得資源進行潔淨能源發電,並將該電力出售給家庭與其他公司。
鑒於日本電力市場今年將全面鬆綁,政府致力在2021年前,能有1千家類似都市營運的潔淨能源公司成立,並且進行運轉。
這項計畫也是日本發展能源自給自足的策略之一,並希望藉此對相關基礎設施的投資,能提振地方經濟。
再生能源業加速發展
在福岡縣約有1百萬人口的北九州市,已經斥資2,400萬日圓(20萬美元)成立1家新公司,預定今年4月將可向另外兩家由都市營運的再生能源公司購買電力,來為當地公共建築供電。
致力地方能源發電的1名北九州市政府官員表示,「藉由該方式,我們知道透過地方再生能源創造的電力,能有助活絡當地商業與繁榮地方經濟」。
由於日本國內沒有太多石油能源,因此大多都必須倚賴進口。在福島核事故發生前,日本曾轉向國內核電廠,以提供所需能源的3成。當時日本政府還計畫在2030年,能將核電廠的供電比例提高至5成。
不過在核事故發生後,民眾對於核電廠的安全疑慮加深,迫使日本政府必須暫時擱置這項核能發電計畫。至於聞「核」色變的民眾對於再生能源的興趣也大幅升高。
儘管日本政府在目前的能源政策中,依然主張回歸核能發電的路線,但在國內阻力依然龐大,在現有43座核電廠中,僅有兩座重新恢復營運。這也迫使日本政府調降2030年核電供電目標,約占總發電的逾兩成。
除了核電,日本水力發電約占該國能源的9%,預料該比重未來不會改變。
2030年供電比重 拚倍增
至於其他種類的再生能源在過去扮演的角色相對較小,因此也為以地方為基礎的發電計畫帶來新的契機。日本政府設定目標,要在2030年將再生能源供電比重,從2013年度的11%提高到22%至24%之間。
日本政府並投入大量資金協助地方達成這項目標。它借鏡德國再生能源的發電模式,希望讓地方發電廠能在能源革命中扮演關鍵性的角色。
日本執政黨為對地方再生能源的投資是協助振興社區的有效方式。日本許多地方發展,受到人口萎縮而呈現岌岌可危的困境。
向來積極提倡核能發電的產經省,已加倍對再生能源的補助金額,從今年度的360億日圓增加至新年度的820億日圓。內務省也尋求增加預算兩倍,以協助都市進行再生能源可行性計畫的研究。
根據名古屋大學的調查指出,日本已有31個都市表達有興趣加入再生能源發電。此外,約有8%則考慮加入零售電力市場。
(工商時報)
★★ 以台灣目前將近98%能源外購的比率,每年超過台幣2兆元的對外能源採購費用來說,我們哪裏有本錢浪費能源?我們哪裏有本錢不知節制的揮霍用電呢?我們哪有本錢不努力提升能源效率呢?
我們台灣每多建設一分的再生能源發電,每提升一分能源效率,台灣就能減少一分的空氣污染,水污染,也減少一分的對外採購能源的費用,發展再生能源和提升能源效率是取代高污染、高排放的火力發電的利器,就更不用提再生能源不會產生危害萬年,處理上極端危險、困難,費用又超級天價昂貴的核廢料以及核輻射污染問題了。
我們目前已經製造了夠多的核廢料了,不能再繼續丟給我們的後代更多棘手無解的核廢難題,並且糟蹋這片我們跟後代子孫借來使用的珍貴生存環境。
畢竟陽光、風力、潮汐、洋流、地熱能才是台灣真正自有的自主能源,由於能源科技的日新月異,使得我們現今擁有過去數十年中所無法想像、無法擁有的更多樣、更多重的優質能源新選項,是時候讓我們拋棄老舊的、僵化的電業、能源思維,積極的改革台灣的能源政策,建設台灣的新世代的、永續環保的新能源建設了。
透過大力發展再生能源與提升能源效率的建設,不但是解決台灣的能源問題,翻轉台灣不健康的能源對外依賴度,也才能促成台灣新的綠色產業發展、開發新的本土藍海產業鏈,創造真正在地的優質新工作機會、產生實質的在地GDP產值,任何改變都有其挑戰性,但事在人為,只要有決心,事情就不難。
在遭遇問題與挑戰的時候,有心要做的找到解決方案,不想做的只會找到推託的藉口。讓我們把握嶄新的契機,凝聚全民共識,攜手完成台灣能源轉型目標,為我們、為將來是代子孫、也為了整個地球環境生態打造一個乾淨、安全、永續的生存空間吧!
文章內容資料原始來源:
http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20160131001027-260209
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