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© 2019 AFPGov't to lift evacuation order in town hosting Fukushima nuclear plant
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jcapan
Of course they will. It's only natural. They have to make this area open to resettlement so they can cart contaminated soil to the other 46 prefectures. We all have a part to play, amirite? We should all stop complaining. It's not like more than a 1000 rural towns and mura aren't hemorrhaging population. Nor is there any evidence that the government lied to us repeatedly. You simply have to make every little burgh, no matter how glowing with radioactive goodness, open to residents again. Like, seriously, presto and it's like a nuclear disaster never even happened. Raise that Olympic torch and boogie on down.
kurisupisu
Anyone worried about ingesting radioactivity should just ‘smile’ and all will be right with the world....
kurisupisu
Well, that is official government advice....,
Jeremy Rigby
Madness.... I believe they still can't even get robots into one of the reactors it's that radioactive.
Kobe White Bar Owner
Appearance and dogdy figures, jinc standard protocol.
juminRhee
If the animals haven't returned, that's probably a sign that the humans shouldn't either.
PM Abe should set the example and move there, and eat the local food.
Carl-Åke Utterström
The risk for lung cancer is 1 to 2 percent while smoking increase the risk to 1 500 percent.
The yeardose is 120 mSv that can be compared to crowded populated areas in India with a background radiation level of 200 mSv. British experts do recognise the radiation level in Fukushima not needable for evacuation. People that were evacuated were affected by higher psycical stress than if they haven´t been evacuated. Tearing up with their rots for to start a completely new life in another area plus the scare for radiation from other surrounding people were not fare to them.
In Sweden deers were shoten before the Chernobyl accident with increased radiation values and the background radiation where higher in the sixties as effect of above ground atomic vapen research in the Nevada desert in US.
The radiation from Harrisburgh after the accident were comparable with a group of people of four to five persons.
As you probable know all human activity do mean radioactivity. You self have a radiation of 20 mRem or 7 000 Bequarel and the Harrisburg do have 80 mRem. A doctor handling with Tomographi do have a yearly dose of
5 000 mRem and a person smoking 20 cigarettes a day 35 000 mRmem. Everything according to hospital physiker in Eskilstuna.
We must have a realistic view of the dangerousness of radioactivity so we can compare it with the risks in other areas.
Windpower do killed 166 persons in just one single year while the civil nuclear plants have killed 50 persons in total and mainly that from the Chernobyl which were a military plant. All security were disconnected and when they tried to reconnect it it was not possible. Mostly of civil plants do reduce the effect while risk of overheating while the Chernobyl were the opposite.
socrateos
zichi:
The article may be little confusing, but it clearly says only "one of two towns where the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is located." Futaba is NOT included in the area where the evacuation order was lifted. Even for Okuma, the area lifted is only a PART of the town (Nakayashiki and Ogawara regions), excluding most (96.4%) of the town population.
Carl-Åke Utterström
Replay to Zichi. 8 to 10 mikroSievert pro day gives 3.65 mSv pro year while the limit value is 20 mSv. Prior a nuclear worker were admitted for 200 mSv and this is the actual background value in highly populated areas in India.
The radiation level onboard a flight is higher than indoor the nuclear plant in most cases. A geiger measuring device don´t registrate anything while xontinously on a flight
sf2k
Here's a live map: https://jciv.iidj.net/map/ . No one should be there
Without an independent judiciary the people can't force anything. The gov't doesn't have to worry about being sued, only how to look good
However people still have freedom of movement and should abandon the area no matter what
Do the hustle
No matter how they try to sugar coat it, these deaths are a direct result of the meltdowns and should be counted as such.
socrateos
zichi:
They are off limits, including the entire Futaba town. The government agree with you. Why complain?
Cp
mmwkdw
Now that they have lifted the restriction - there is no reason for people not to return... right ?
No Legal reason....
This would appear to be a case of the Government getting themselves off the hook.