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Fukushima City announces 2-year decontamination plan

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The Fukushima City government on Tuesday announced a two-year decontamination plan to lower radiation levels in the area which is located about 60 kilometers from the stricken Daiichi nuclear power plant. NHK reported that the decontamination measures will cover some 110,000 houses.

According to the plan, atmospheric radiation levels will be reduced to less than 1 microsievert per hour. Priority will be given to schools, homes, office buildings and roads (but not fields). The government will ask private-sector companies to help with the decontamination process, NHK reported.

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Wishing Good Luck.

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Let me guess... there's an election in the near future? Sorry, but an 80 year "decontamination plan" wouldn't even be realistic, given the half life of half the poisons the Fukushima government and TEPCO have given us.

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Agreed Smith

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you finally said something i agree with smithinjapan.

who are they trying to kid with a 2 -year plan? sorry but i ain't touching any food from this region for a long time.

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Fukushima City to decontaminate all houses

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/27_08.html

Here is the article from NHK. the 2 year plan is just for the Decontmination of Homes

Excerpt: Some people concerned about possible health risks to their children have already moved out of the city.

The plan aimed at substantially lowering radiation levels in the air for the next 2 years includes decontamination of all 110,000 households in the city.

Of those, highly contaminated houses where children of high school age or younger live will be given extra thorough cleaning.

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"atmospheric radiation levels will be reduced to less than 1 microsievert per hour"

This shows just how deceptive these clowns are in the J govt. As they wash the contaminants, they will go somewhere. Where will they go, in the sewers? Hope not...Clean a roof to ruin the water table. Great idea.

They can - in limited areas - reduce radiation a bit, but that is not decontamination, for it will remain in many other areas, especially the places the runoff heads too. The area still won't be safe. They tried something like that in Chernobyl, where they now measure pretty low atmospheric eves, but the ground levels (especially near moss) is so high it is shocking. It makes no difference if they lower air levels. They cannot decontaminate the soil, the water table, the air, the trees, the forests - an impossible task. Someone's going to make a lot of money on this, though.

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I wouldn't live anywhere that was 0.2m/sv or more

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Needs to be clearer as whether it's going to 2 years for decontamination, or 2 years until the city says that it's safe regardless of what's going on? Seems a little daft to place a limit on it like this when the reactor is still not shutdown and not under full control (so it seems).

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zichi, looks like one of those fallout maps. I have seen those before but not for a power plant. Who needs enemy nukes when we have TEPCO? Between them them and our government ...

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Pie in the sky. They are going to make everything worse for the sake of face.

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