After 8 years, residents of a town soaked in radiation by the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster are allowed back
Some former residents of a town evacuated eight years ago after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster have been allowed to move back for the first time.
Despite the declaration, nuclear radiation levels in Ōkuma are 20 times higher than they were before the disaster. A 2018 survey showed only 13% of ex-residents wanted to return.Japan has allowed residents to move back to a town in Fukushima which had been under strict evacuation orders since the 2011 nuclear power plant disaster blanketed it in deadly radiation.
In total 160,000 people had to flee the area after the earthquake caused waves to disable the reactor's power supply, leading to widespread nuclear contamination. Of those, 10,000 lived in Ōkuma.
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