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Ian Fairlie | The experiences of Japanese evacuees after Fukushima discussed above are distressing to read. Their experiences were terrible, so much so that it requires Governments of large cities with nearby NPPs to reconsider their own situations and to address the question… what would happen if radioactive fallout heavily contaminated large areas of their city and required millions of residents to leave for long periods of time, eg several decades?

Martin Fackler | As cold northerly winds sprinkle the first snow on the mountains surrounding this medieval city, those who fled here after last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster are losing hope that they will ever return to their old homes.

An increasing number of residents who evacuated from their communities near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are resigned to never returning home, according to a survey. More than six months after the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake only 43 percent of the evacuees said they definitely wantRead More

      Contamination levels in the Japanese mountain village of Iitate are higher than in some parts of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Its evacuation has been a painful process for residents — and many are more afraid of resettlement than they are of radiation.   Why on earth didn’tRead More