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15 Août 2013
August 14, 2013
Decontamination outside Fukushima shifts to houses
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130814_14.html
Work to reduce radioactive residue caused by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in 2011 has now shifted from educational facilities to individual houses.
The Environment Ministry surveyed the progress of government-sponsored decontamination work as of the end of June in 58 municipalities from 7 prefectures, not including Fukushima Prefecture, where the nuclear power station is. The 7 are Iwate, Miyagi, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama and Chiba Prefectures.
The survey showed that decontamination of schools and kindergartens is now almost 96 percent -- or 1,531 out of 1,596 -- complete, because municipalities placed priority on such facilities.
It also showed that the work has now shifted to individual houses.
Orders for decontamination have been issued for 90,639 units of the 140,972 houses scheduled to be worked on. That's more than 1.8 times the number surveyed at the end of March.
But work has been completed on only 42,789 houses, about 30 percent the total.
The ministry says it hopes that decontamination will get into full swing soon.
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