“Of course, we’d like people to come back and support their ability to do so as best as we can.” “The evacuation order has lifted now, but we can’t give a concrete number on how many people will come back,” the spokesman said. Japan's top court says government not responsible for Fukushima damage The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following a strong earthquake, in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo on March 17, 2022. It remains unclear, however, how many people will return – and how long the town will take to recover. Photos from March also show workers tearing down collapsed structures and preparing to rebuild them.
That level is equivalent to two full-body CT scans and international safety watchdogs recommend it should be the limit of an individual’s annual exposure to radiation.Īuthorities began preparing for the town’s reopening this year in January, they launched a program allowing former residents to return temporarily, but only 85 people from 52 households took part, the Futaba official said. Residents have been allowed to enter the northeastern area of Futaba – but not live there – since March 2020, when experts said radiation levels did not exceed 20 millisieverts per year. 'We're still recovering': 11 years after Fukushima nuclear disaster, residents return to their village IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN JAPAN. Mandatory Credit REUTERS/Kyodo (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT) JAPAN OUT. The tsunami that struck Fukushima nuclear plant in March was far larger than what the facility was equipped to handle, the operator of the plant said on Friday in its first official assessment of the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. Workers decontaminate around an elementary school in the Katsurao town near the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo on December 4, 2011. Public facilities, such as the newly reopened municipal town office, are scheduled to restart operations next Monday. In the years since, large-scale cleanup and decontamination operations have allowed some residents who once lived in the former exclusion zone to return.įutaba is home to the Tokyo Electric Power Company complex (TEPCO) and a railway station. Once-bustling communities were turned into ghost towns. More than 300,000 people living near the nuclear plant were forced to evacuate temporarily thousands more did so voluntarily. It was the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan’s east coast, triggering a tsunami that caused a nuclear meltdown at the power plant and a major release of radioactive material. The town of Futaba, previously deemed off-limits, is the last of 11 districts to lift its evacuation order, a spokesman for the town’s municipal office told CNN. More than a decade after Japan’s worst nuclear disaster, the town that hosts the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant finally lifted its evacuation order on Tuesday, allowing former residents to come home.
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