Large Zone Around Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Plant Will Be Declared Uninhabitable for Decades
August 22nd, 2011Via: New York Times:
Broad areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant could soon be declared uninhabitable, perhaps for decades, after a government survey found radioactive contamination that far exceeded safe levels, several major media outlets said Monday.
The formal announcement, expected from the government in coming days, would be the first official recognition that the March accident could force the long-term depopulation of communities near the plant, an eventuality that scientists and some officials have been warning about for months. Lawmakers said over the weekend — and major newspapers reported Monday — that Prime Minister Naoto Kan was planning to visit Fukushima Prefecture, where the plant is, as early as Saturday to break the news directly to residents. The affected communities are all within 12 miles of the plant, an area that was evacuated immediately after the accident.
The government is expected to tell many of these residents that they will not be permitted to return to their homes for an indefinite period. It will also begin drawing up plans for compensating them by, among other things, renting their now uninhabitable land. While it is unclear if the government would specify how long these living restrictions would remain in place, news reports indicated it could be decades. That has been the case for areas around the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine after its 1986 accident.
“could be decades” lol realistically more like centuries, maybe new developments in decontamination tech will develop in those “decades” allowing safe habitation. forget about the ocean.
12 miles from the plant largely unihabitable. This has go to be a joke. Surely.
The U.S. still has a presence in Japan studying the effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We bombed it and rebuilt Japan.
Why is Japan being so cheap, so slow, so goshdarn infuriating with the resonse to this disaster? I don’t get it. Well I guess I do. Its always about the money. Cheap bastards. Where’s TEPCO? and for that matter, they sound just like BP in the Gulf of Mexico. Cheap bastards. Ruin and run. That’s the ticket.
Well. Isn’t the most efficient way to enforce eugenism the mass implementation of various forms of lethal threats ?