The authorities of Japan They announced this Monday that from 2026 they will stop offering accommodations temporary shelters for people still evacuated from areas near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Instead of these temporary shelters, where around 1,000 people are still living who cannot return home, Fukushima Prefecture will launch a programme to help those affected find permanent residences with state support.
According to data from the government’s Agency for Reconstruction for May, some 26,000 people are still unable to return to their homes in Fukushima because their homes are still located in areas declared uninhabitable due to the high level of radioactive waste still present.
As radiation decontamination efforts have progressed since the nuclear disaster following the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, the areas around the Fukushima Daiichi plant that have been declared subject to mandatory evacuation have been reduced, allowing many residents to return.
In the days following the nuclear accident, considered the worst since Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1986, more than 100,000 people had to leave their homes due to the risk of being exposed to high doses of radioactivity.
Many of the long-term evacuees have chosen to leave Fukushima prefecture, which is still suffering the consequences of the atomic disaster not only in the areas that remain contaminated, but also because of the impact on its local economy, traditionally dependent on agriculture, livestock and fishing.
Source: Gestion
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