その時、福島の原発では何が起きていたのか（BBCドキュメンタリー）

その時、福島の原発では何が起きていたのか。
BBC制作のドキュメンタリー

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BBC This World 2012 Inside the Meltdown 576p HDTV x264 AAC MVGroup org
BBC制作　「THIS WORLD」メルトダウンの裏話　2月23日放映

以下、BBCのHPより、番組の紹介文を抜粋しました↓
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01cpd2m/This_World_Inside_the_Meltdown/
＊番組の紹介文＊

International investigative documentary series. When a tsunami struck Japan in 2011, it swamped the Fukushima nuclear complex causing nuclear meltdown and releasing radiation that ultimately would leave hundreds of square miles uninhabitable, and cost a hundred thousand people their homes.

With unique footage and powerful eyewitness testimony from key figures in the drama - the engineers in the plant, firemen, soldiers, pilots, tsunami survivors, the Japanese prime minister and even the MD of the company operating the plant - Inside the Meltdown reveals what really happened in the extraordinary days after the tsunami as a disaster unfolded that Japan's nuclear industry said would never happen.

It tells the story of workers inside the plant's pitch-dark, radio-active reactor buildings desperately trying to stop reactors exploding as radiation levels rose inexorably. 'In the control room people were saying we were finished,' says one. 'They were saying it quietly but they were saying it.' It meets the helicopter pilots who desperately dropped water from above the radioactive cores, and the firemen who braved radiation to spray water onto melting nuclear fuel. 'We chose all the over 40s', their chief tells the programme. 'These were the guys who were not going to be having any more children.'

Inside the Meltdown also reveals the tensions between the plant's owners and an increasingly distrustful Japanese prime minister, struggling to get at the truth of what was happening, fearful the owners planned to abandon the plant. He reveals his experts at one point warned he might need to evacuate vast areas of Japan, even the capital Tokyo. 'That first week, we walked a razor thin line,' he tells This World.

多くの方々が自らの命を危険にさらしてまで、一人でも多くの人の命を救う為に立ち向かって行ったことを

この番組を通して改めて知りました。

ヘリコプターで水を投下した自衛隊の方、

原発に放水した東京消防庁の方、

原発のすぐそばで危険な作業を続けた方…。

もしあの時、こういう方々の存在がなかったら、今私たちがいる世界はどうなっていたのでしょうね。
考えただけでも背筋がぞっとします。

語りは英語ですが、インタビューは、ほとんどが日本語ですので比較的分かりやすいと思います。
ぜひ皆さんもご覧下さいね。

BBCのドキュメンタリーを紹介してくださったMISAKIさん、いそみみさん、ありがとうございました。