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Bittersweet update on the Japanese man who lost his daughter: Two years after this 60 minutes piece (2016), he was able to find fragments of what he believed to be her remains. Again in 2022, he returned to the same site and was able to recover the femur of his daughter. "Gushiken walked around the site and checked bumps on the ground. Suddenly, he stopped walking. It was the place where part of Yuna’s neck bone had been found years before. Using shovels, they began digging a hole several meters below where the remains had been located. About 20 minutes later, Gushiken discovered what looked like a long, thin stick in the ground. “No way.” Kimura continued to dig there. “Yuna, wait! Your dad is here!” Gushiken’s voice trembled. What Kimura unearthed was the femur of a child, measuring about 25 centimeters (10 inches) long. Yuna was the only child killed by the tsunami in the immediate area. Kimura’s eyes filled with tears, and he discarded his shovel, digging with his hands. “Maybe I haven’t searched enough. Yuna was here,” Kimura said. He held his daughter’s remains in his arms, gently stroking them over and over again. “I finally found Yuna,” he said." (Story via the Huffington Post)

As a father, the segment about the man looking for his daughter absolutely crushed me. I can hardly believe how composed he is. He is steadfast and I hope one day he can be reunited with his little girl so that he can lay her to rest. When that little girl said her friend is in Okuma and she thinks that she’s lonely, I started bawling. Gonna go give my daughter a hug now.

Interviewing the Duke CEO is about as productive as questioning the USSR was in 1986.

😔😪💔 The guy from Japan, searching for his daughter & her belongings.. it's heartbreaking..

I still think 60 Minutes is the finest journalism I have ever seen

Duke Energy… That’s exactly like letting police departments investigate their own criminal activity. It just gives them a chance to shore up the leaks that get them into trouble.

My heart breaks for the man who lost most of his family. I cant imagine the guilt and pain he feels, even though it wasnt his fault. I hope he's been able to find some peace.

Watching the first story gives me a new appreciation for how accurate many of the set and costume designs were for the “Chernobyl” HBO series.

What a mess this world is in😢

I bet the coal ash is still there.

I visited Stockholm, Sweden a month after the Chernobyl accident. Sweden, despite being ~700 miles line-of-sight to Chernobyl, had already killed much of their livestock because they had eaten contaminated vegetation and also discarded milk, cheese, etc. I asked a waiter about the event. He lamented that tourism was down 50%. He then said that at least he learned how to make chicken Kiev. Of course, that led me to ask 'How?' His response?: "First you preheat the city the 350 degrees."

That is so sad I could cry, my God, that poor guy :( He blames himself, yet he is an amazing father that did nothing wrong.

Sending prayers to the man in Japan, who is still searching for his daughter.🙏🏻💔🥀🧸

I was in Neu-Ulm Germany during Chernobyl s disaster. I was in a nuclear missile unit ,Pershing. When we were outside your could taste the ionizing radiation in the air. We were told it was safe but we knew better. This part of Germany was the hardest hit and exposed ,this is why all nuclear power needs to be done away with. I wish we as humans could come to terms with our humanity, that all life is equally important and all nuclear weapons were done away with. If people only knew the real dangers of an accidental use,and the world would be done.

Duke Energy needs to0 know that if your puppy poops in a park, the law is pick up the poop and dispose of the poop properly.

True.. but Fukushima is STILL dumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. 😢😢😢😢

The year of Chernobyl I was living in Eureka, CA. We were told the radiation cloud from Europe was traveling across the sea more than once and some people went inland. We were advised over the following days to keep our windows shut. Never heard anything about it after that, and I'm still very curious if it did and how much.

So this is almost 10 years later and what has Duke Energy done to clean up their pollution poisoned coal ash pits and ponds to Now? How much have they spent to eradicate the problem and protect the people and the environment from further damages? AND how much profit have they made in the same period?

So sad about the man's young daughter whose body was never found. Poor, poor victims... RIP.

the japan segment was brutal..so sorrowful