People were allowed to return to the city located near the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. However, those wishing are still few.
Japanese authorities have allowed Fukushima village residents after more than 10 years of allowing owners of more than 30 households to return to their homes, according to donga.com.
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The Agency for Reconstruction of Territories identified the Katsurao area with an area of 0.95 square meters. km next to a closed nuclear power plant adequately cleaned. Of the 30 registered households and 82 residents in their respective parts of Katsurao, only four households and eight people have expressed their intention to return.
In the coming years, residents will be able to return to a few more quarters of the village. But more than 90% of radiation -contaminated territory will be closed to visitors and life for an indefinite period of time.
In 2011, an accident occurred at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant due to the impact of the tsunami. It became the biggest accident at a nuclear power plant since Chernobyl. Some areas remain uninhabitable.
In 2019, we began removing unused fuel rods from a special pool at the third Fukushima-1 reactor.
Earlier this year, the city of Okuma, located near the destroyed nuclear power plant, was partially opened to the public, recognizing about 40% of the territory as safe for living, but former residents were not in a hurry to go back there.
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Source: korrespondent
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