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Radiation Survey in Namie Town
Namie Town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, 10 km north of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. This area was heavily damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In March 2017 the Japanese government opened this area of Namie for people to return to. As of December 2017 the population of Namie was 404, 2.1% of the population in March 2011. Greenpeace radiation surveys of this area in September 2017 showed that while some of the area has levels close to the government decontamination target (0.23 micro-sieverts per hour) there were many areas which were higher, including above 5 microsieverts per hour.
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Radiation Survey in Fukushima Prefecture
A comprehensive survey by Greenpeace Japan in the towns of Iitate and Namie in Fukushima prefecture, including the exclusion zone, revealed radiation levels up to 100 times higher than the international limit for public exposure. The high radiation levels in these areas pose a significant risk to returning evacuees until at least the 2050’s and well into next century. The findings come just two weeks ahead of a critical decision at at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) review on Japan’s human rights record and commitments to evacuees from the nuclear disaster.
Greenpeace conducted the investigations in September and October 2017 measuring tens of thousands of data points around homes, forests, roads and farmland in the open areas of Namie and Iitate, as well as inside the closed Namie exclusion zone. The government plans to open up small areas of the exclusion zone, including Obori and Tsushima, for human habitation in 2023. The survey shows the decontamination program to be ineffective, combined with a region that is 70-80% mountainous forest which cannot be decontaminated.
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Unique identifier:
GP0STRLQH
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
20/09/2017
Locations:
East Asia
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Fukushima Prefecture
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Japan
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Namie
Credit line:
© Christian Åslund / Greenpeace
Size:
6682px × 4459px 18.42 MB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)