Japan says Fukushima residents can return home

Started by Solar, February 23, 2017, 02:59:39 PM

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Japan says Fukushima residents can return home, despite NGO report warning of high radiation level

Almost six years after he was forced to leave his home following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the Japanese government informed Toru Anzai that it was safe for him to return to the small agricultural village of Iitate.

Anzai and the rest of the some 6,000 people who once called the village – located about 24 miles northwest of the doomed nuclear power plant – home were told that the evacuation orders were to be lifted by the end of March as the government has completed its decontamination work and reduced the average radiation level in the air to 0.8 microsieverts (µSv/h) per hour – a level deemed by international organizations as safe for human life.

Alongside lifting the evacuation order, the Japanese government also noted that it will end compensation payments to the former residents of Iitate after a year from when an area is declared safe again to live in.

The government's announcement, however, has been met with skepticism from Iitate's former residents and widespread criticism from environmental activists and radiation experts around the world. They say that Japan has based its policies not on any interest in public health but on undoing the financial burden of compensation and creating a false reality that life in the Fukushima prefecture is back to normal.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/02/23/japan-says-fukushima-residents-can-return-home-despite-ngo-report-warning-high-radiation-level.html
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