Posted on 08/30/2022 10:29:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The town of Futaba, previously deemed off-limits, is the last of 11 districts to lift its evacuation order, a spokesman for the town's municipal office told CNN. On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's east coast, triggering a tsunami that caused a nuclear meltdown at the power plant and a major release of radioactive material. It was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
More than 300,000 people living near the nuclear plant were forced to evacuate temporarily; thousands more did so voluntarily. Once-bustling communities were turned into ghost towns.
In the years since, large-scale cleanup and decontamination operations have allowed some residents who once lived in the former exclusion zone to return. Futaba is home to the Tokyo Electric Power Company complex (TEPCO) and a railway station. Public facilities, such as the newly reopened municipal town office, are scheduled to restart operations next Monday.
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“Ok, so my kid will have three eyes, I’ll make that work for me.”
the town doesn’t need street lights, it just glows. So that’s nice.
After eleven years, how many will want to go back? Unless they’ve been living with relatives or in evacuation facilities all this time, most have probably moved on with their lives by now. Durned if I’d go back.
Maybe property values are low.
I guess they’re deemed old enough to where the eventual deaths and mutations can be chalked up to ‘mysterious’ and ‘unexplained.’ Like deaths from Covid vaxxes..
That doesn’t make sense. If the place was contaminated with I131 then that would have decayed to harmlessness years ago. It it’s Sr90 and Cs137 theyr should still be at a dangerous level since the 1/2 lives of these is in the 20+ year range and it takes about 10 half lives to get rid of radioisotope contamination
No doubt. Life expectancy as well. Moving to an area near a rehabbed nuke plant in an active earthquake zone doesn’t sound too appealing to me.
I hope somebody fed my goldfish while I was gone.
wait a darn minute....after a triple meltdown, i thought its all gonna be radioactive for 700 ga-trillion years....i used buy into all that “half life” non sense...then i thought “how do they honestly know the halflife is 230,000 years”...so full of it...just like when they say what the Earth weighs.....whats truly at its core....on and on...
Well Japan is the home of Godzilla.
They can have a new motto —
“hell,no, we won’t glow!”
IAEA to issue report before treated water release from Fukushima nuclear plant
Oh, to be a fly on the wall...
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