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SIX YEARS AFTER: 4 more districts in Fukushima set to be declared safe to return to　via Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2017/02/28 by nfield

Evacuation orders will be lifted shortly for four more municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture, but the prospect of residents returning to their old homes in huge numbers seems unlikely. The restrictions, in place since the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear … Continue reading →

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Kansai Electric Power : Fukushima aftershock renews public concern about restarting Kansai’s aging nuclear reactors　via 4 Traders

Posted on 2016/11/27 by norma field

  Kansai Electric Power : Fukushima aftershock renews public concern about restarting Kansai’s aging nuclear reactors     0   11/27/2016 | 05:17pm CET   Nov. 27–KYOTO — The magnitude-7.4 aftershock that rocked Fukushima Prefecture and its vicinity last week, … Continue reading →

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Fukushima in New York? This Nuclear Plant Has Regulators Nervous via National Geographic

Posted on 2016/07/29 by norma field

By Andrew Lapin That’s what many activists and former nuclear regulators fear for the Indian Point Energy Center, a nuclear power plant that has operated in Westchester County for more than four decades. The plant provides a good chunk of … Continue reading →

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Five Years On-Voices of Fukushima via Peace Boat

Posted on 2016/03/09 by norma field
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‘Nuclear Gypsies’ Risk Their Lives to Clean Up Fukushima via EcoWatch

Posted on 2015/12/28 by norma field

The Fukushima nuclear disaster happened more than four years ago and yet Japan is still reeling from the impacts and spending billions of dollars to clean up what photographers and filmmakers who’ve entered the so-called “no go zone” have described … Continue reading →

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Less than 15 percent of evacuees want to return to Fukushima homes via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2015/10/28 by norma field

An increasing number of evacuees are reluctant to return home in two municipalities that became ghost towns four-and-a-half years ago following the disaster at the nearby Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, a survey showed. When asked if they would return … Continue reading →

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Okuma plans apartments for evacuated elderly who want to live out lives in hometown via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2015/10/19 by norma field

With all the 10,000 residents of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, still evacuated from the March 2011 nuclear accident, many of the elderly are hoping to live their final years in their hometown. In response, Okuma has set up a project team … Continue reading →

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Fukushima ghost town struggles back to life　via The Irish Times

Posted on 2015/10/16 by norma field

[…] Their town, once home to 7,800 people, has a new kindergarten, school and welfare centre where former nuclear evacuees can get counselling. All that’s missing are people: fewer than 200 residents have returned. Last month, Naraha became the first … Continue reading →

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Fukushima: thousands have died, thousands more will die via The Ecologist

Posted on 2015/08/18 by norma field

By Ian Fairlie […] Mental health consequences It is necessary to include the mental health consequences of radiation exposures and evacuations. For example, Becky Martin has stated her PhD research at Southampton University in the UK shows that “the most … Continue reading →

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4 Years After Fukushima Nuclear Calamity, Japanese Divided on Whether to Return via The New York Times

Posted on 2015/08/08 by norma field

IITATE, Japan — For four years, an eerie quiet has pervaded the clusters of farmhouses and terraced rice paddies of this mountainous village, emptied of people after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 25 miles away, spewed … Continue reading →

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