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Posted byData_7in/news-Mar 11 at 6:11 AM

Science: It's safe to return to Fukushima, study suggests

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It's safe to return to Fukushima, study suggests

Six years after Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster, thousands of former residents evacuated from the region are returning home. But is it safe? A new study says yes, finding that inhabitants of a never-evacuated village just 60 kilometers away don't have to worry about dangerous levels of radiation over their lifetime.

sciencemag.org
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  • petegozzMar 11 at 8:20 AM

    Yeah well , trust ain't huge on anything around this fiasco.

    I for one would be commissioning at least one more study using another set of premises , assumptions and methodologies.

    For how long is it safe ? For whom ? Post reproduce age humans only and monitor ?

    Maybe facilities for decommissioning workers and then re-asses.

    Notably : The aftermath of another quake/tsunami encroaching the facility, and storages, seems beyond contemplation, except the poor buggers have to consider it.

    I guess if you don't use the ground water... Or ... too many ors ...

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