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John F. Kennedy, July 26th, 1963

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

1,000 days after Fukushima: residents of crisis zone frustrated by slow clean-up

From: Euronews

1,000 days after Fukushima: residents of crisis zone frustrated by slow clean-up


The communities around Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant are still waiting for their lives to return to some kind of normality – 1,000 days after the world’s worst atomic disaster since Chernobyl.
By the end of October, only 28.5 percent of houses, 33.2 percent of roads and 12.3 percent of forests had been cleaned, according to the Fukushima Department of Environment.
The Japanese government has extended the time-frame the clean-up of the exclusion zone around the plant, initially due to be completed by next March, until 2017.
Officials have cited several difficulties as reasons for pushing back the timetable, including finding space to store contaminated waste.



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