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Decontamination
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Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant
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Fukushima Evacuees Return to Tamura City

Sami Watanabe 83 and her long-time friend Michiko Watanabe 78, chat at her temporary prefab housing in the centre of Tamura City. Both are evacuees from the Miyakoji area in Tamura City. Her old house is inside the 20km evacuation zone of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. She goes back to her old house twice a week. It is expected that part of Tamura City in the 20km evacuation zone will be the first community where the government lifts its evacuation order as decontamination by the government is finished. 
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Fukushima Evacuees Return Home to Tamura City

Two years an half after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster it is predicted that Tamura City will be the first city where the evacuation order is released. Decontamination under the direct control of government ended within 20km zone of Tamura city in June 2013, and it is decided to conduct a post-monitoring and consideration of re-decontamination based on the post-monitoring results by local government and country with the cooperation. 
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Unique identifier: GP04UWK 
Type: Image 
Shoot date: 05/10/2013 
Locations: Asia, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Tamura
Credit line: © Noriko Hayashi / Greenpeace 
Size: 4009px × 2668px     5.63 MB 
Ranking: ★★★★ (E)