….In
August, the number of people in Fukushima who have died since the
accident from illnesses related to prolonged evacuation rose to 1,539,
nearing the prefecture’s tsunami death toll of 1,599….
By Mia 14/11/13
By Mia 14/11/13
The
government said they are going to support the evacuees with a new
proposal. I am concerned because:
Evidence
of 50 mSv/y dose limit;
年間積算放射線量が５０ミリシーベルト超の「帰還困難区域」について、帰還まで長
期の時間がかかることを明確にした上で、移住先で住宅を確保できるよう賠償金を手厚くする.....
Those
residents in the area more than 50mSv/y will get sufficient
financial help from the government, but those in the remaining area
are not going to be financially supported.
Where
are those residents in 50mSv/y going be housed? They could be offered
to live in 20mSv/y zone in Fukushima prefecture as the government
considers it safe.
Maybe
people outside Japan think that those 860,000 evacuees from the
Fukushima nuclear accident were evacuated into a safe area from the
Fukushima prefecture, but the most of them had been evacuated just
outside 20km radius of the crippled plant where radiation level is
anywhere between up to 20mSv/y.
Those
husbands among the evacuees who had lost jobs from the earthquake,
tsunami and Fukushima nuclear accident have ended up working as Tepco
clean-up workers and have been even more exposed to radiation. Other
help offered by the Japanese government was announced for pregnant
women and children to be provided free accommodation if they decide
to come back to Fukushima prefecture. In my opinion, this is a
disgrace. Also, they would advise the residents to use
dosimeters because it reads even lower than the public monitoring
posts.
*Pregnant
women offered free houses if they return to Fukushima
妊娠している女性や子供が、福島に帰還すると住居費が無料になる
*Japan’s
plan to make radiation readings come out looking better -Plan
to lower radiation readings OK’d 日本政府は住民の被爆を低く見積もるよう仕組んでいる。
JIJI NOV
12, 2013
(Source)
http://nuclear-news.net/2013/11/13/japans-plan-to-make-radiation-readings-come-out-looking-better/#more-59479
It was proposed by the regulatory commission’s secretariat at its meeting Monday and gained broad-based consensus.
Dosimeter readings tend to be less than half of those using the existing method based on air dose rates, which assume that residents stay outdoors for a total of eight hours a day, according to the NRA Secretariat.
The proposal comes as the government is aiming to lift the evacuation advisory for areas where annual radiation doses are estimated at 20 millisieverts or lower.
The new method is expected to help promote the return of evacuees as well as reduce costs for decontaminating areas tainted by radioactive fallout from the Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant.
It was proposed by the regulatory commission’s secretariat at its meeting Monday and gained broad-based consensus.
Dosimeter readings tend to be less than half of those using the existing method based on air dose rates, which assume that residents stay outdoors for a total of eight hours a day, according to the NRA Secretariat.
The proposal comes as the government is aiming to lift the evacuation advisory for areas where annual radiation doses are estimated at 20 millisieverts or lower.
The new method is expected to help promote the return of evacuees as well as reduce costs for decontaminating areas tainted by radioactive fallout from the Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant.
[Mia`s
note - Correction to main stream media published figures] The
number 160,000 is reported as a number of evacuees in the most of
Japanese and English news except for a few reports, but I think it is
figure of total evacuees who were affected by Earthquake, Tsunami and
Fukushima accident in Tohoku region. After searching the regional
information concerning refugees, I think seems 86,000 is about right
for the Fukushima disaster evacuees. The Japanese government
evacuated only the residents in the areas 20km radius of the
Fukushima Nuclear power plant and also from Iidate village, Kawauchi
village and some from Minami-soma city. Total population in those
areas was about 86,000.)
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"For many Fukushima evacuees, the truth is they won't be going home" by Sophie Knight and Antoni Slodkowski Iwaki, Japan Mon Nov 11, 2013 (Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/11/us-japan-fukushima-idUSBRE9AA03Z20131111
“The
government is also considering a proposal floated earlier this month
to offer new compensation to residents in the areas of highest
radiation who have no prospect of returning home, officials involved
have said.”
For
many of Japan’s oldest nuclear refugees, all they want is to be
allowed back to the homes they were forced to abandon. Others are
ready to move away, severing ties to the ghost towns that remain in
the shadow of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.
But
among the thousands of evacuees stuck in temporary housing more than
two and a half years after the worst nuclear accident since
Chernobyl, there is a shared understanding on one point – Japan’s
government is unable to deliver on its ambitious initial goals for
cleaning up the areas that had to be evacuated after the March 2011
earthquake and tsunami disaster......
…..Lawmakers
from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s coalition parties on Monday
recommended the government step back from the most ambitious
Fukushima clean-up goals, and begin telling evacuees that a
$30 billion clean-up will not achieve the long-term radiation
reduction goal set by the previous administration. “The
government and ruling party will act as one and deal with this
firmly,” said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, adding that
Abe would consider the proposal seriously.
The
government is also considering a proposal floated earlier this month
to offer new compensation to residents in the areas of highest
radiation who have no prospect of returning home, officials involved
have said.
FRUSTRATION,
RESIGNATION 福島原発避難者：不満とあきらめ
…....
Social workers report an increase in domestic strife, alcoholism and
illnesses such as deep vein thrombosis from lack of exercise. In
August, the number of people in Fukushima who have died since the
accident from illnesses related to prolonged evacuation rose to
1,539, nearing the prefecture’s tsunami death toll of 1,599.
Among
those who remain, there is frustration, resignation and a sense that
the hardest decisions remain ahead……… No matter how hard they
try to decontaminate, radiation isn’t going down. So even though we
have decided to go back, we can’t,” said Keiko Shioi, a
59-year-old housewife from Naraha, near the nuclear plant. …..“No
matter how much they decontaminate I’m not going back because I
have children and it is my responsibility to protect them,” said
Yumi Ide, a mother of two teenage boys from Tomioka……
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