Namie, Fukushima - The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident marks the 10-year anniversary on March 11, 2021. Greenpeace Japan has been conducting continuous radiation surveys in Fukushima Prefecture right after the accident, and in November 2020, we conducted our 32nd survey in Iitate and Namie. A decade of Greenpeace Japan radiation survey has consistently found that most of the Special Decontamination Area (SDA), where the government is responsible for decontamination, remains contaminated with radioactive caesium.
The home of Ms. Kanno is located at Shimo-Tsushima in the district of Namie, 30 km west-north-west of the nuclear plant. It was subjected to significant radioactive contamination in the wake of the March 2011 accident and remained as the “Difficult-to-return” exclusion zone inside Namie.