© ReutersLocals from a village close to the radioactive Fukushima site are being forced to return, say Greenpeace
Officials are planning to slash housing support for 6,000 people from the village of Iitate on March 31, when the evacuation order is due to be lifted just six years on from the reactor meltdown, reports rt.com.
The risk to health is on a par with the exclusion zone around the former Soviet reactor Chernobyl in what is now Ukraine - more than 30 years after it spewed plumes of killer fission, say Greenpeace Japan.
© REUTERSGreenpeace say radiation levels are on a par with Chernobyl, which has an exclusion zone more than 30 years on
"For citizens returning to their irradiated homes, they are at risk of receiving radiation equivalent to one chest X-ray every week.
"This is not normal or acceptable."
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That said, it seems that it isn't so much that the govt is urging the survivors to return as it just wants to get rid of the issue by stopping their subsidy payments for rental, food etc... the more 'democratic' way to dispose of an unwanted problem, easier done these days with a more controlled mainsteam media... something found in most countries full of debt and lies.
Some industry people have in the past said that nuclear energy doesn't have to be this disaster prone, it's just that the industry, as overseen by the govt, seems to prefer this method of operations... same in business and most govt funded startups/new business opportunities... the money is made in the new ones, as the old ones just cost you money... maintenance etc... so they always go looking for new projects... today it seems the whole 'green' thing is the leading contender for that crown of corruption.