Greenpeace radiation specialists Mai Suzuki and Laurence Bergot and Heinz Smital in Namie measuring opposite a kindergarten and school in Namie Town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. In March 2017 the Japanese government opened this area of Namie for people to return to. 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 in the forest opposite the school. 10km north of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, this area was heavily damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. As of December 2017 the population of Namie was 440, 2.1% of the population in March 2011.