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Cleanup to start soon in Namie

 February 15, 2018

 

 

Japan to start nuclear cleanup of Fukushima town around May

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180215/p2g/00m/0dm/069000c

 

 

 

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nuclear decontamination work using state funds will begin around May in Namie, a town in northeastern Japan hit hard by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, to make some of its most-contaminated areas habitable again, the government said Thursday.

 

The government is seeking to lift an evacuation order for three areas in the town, covering about 660 hectares, by March 2023.

 

The order currently covers about 80 percent of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture, and the areas to be decontaminated make up some 3.7 percent of it where entry is prohibited in principle.

 

On Dec. 22, the government approved a plan submitted by the town to rebuild the areas affected by meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

 

Similar rebuilding efforts have been underway in the neighboring town of Futaba since December and are also scheduled to begin in the town of Okuma in March.

 

For Namie, the first round of work covers some 30 hectares of land.

 

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami inundated the six-reactor plant located in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, and flooded the power supply facilities.

 

Reactor cooling systems were crippled and the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors suffered fuel meltdowns in the world's worst nuclear catastrophe since the 1986 Chernobyl disaste

 

 

 

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