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World’s most radioactive man: Japanese farmer who refused to leave crippled Fukushima nuclear plant so he can take care of his animals (video)
- Naoto Matsumura is the only remaining inhabitant of the town of Tomioka
- Less than six miles from the crippled power station it was home to 16,000
- Defiant rice farmer is constantly exposed to dangerous levels of radiation
They call him Radioactive Man, the Japanese farmer who refused to leave his home town despite it being less than six miles away from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Defiant Naoto Matsumura, 53, is the only remaining inhabitant of the town of Tomioka which was a thriving community of 16,000 people before the tsunami hit two years ago.
The rice farmer disobeyed government orders to leave and has stayed on to feed the town’s animals including his own 50 cows and two ostriches.
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Radioactive Man: Japanese farmer Naoto Matsumura, is still living in the Fukushima radiation zone two years after the nuclear disaster
Mr Matsumura is permanently exposed to up to 17 times the level of radiation that is considered safe.
He put his health at further risk by eating food that had also been exposed to radiation, although he is now surviving on relief supplies delivered from outside and water that has been checked for radiation…..Read More
2013-03-14 05:00:17
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