A cemetery in a district in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 20 is surrounded by solar panels installed on former farmland after the evacuation order was lifted.
February 24, 2021
Only 19 percent of residents in Fukushima Prefecture believe the work to decommission the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is showing “promise” nearly 10 years after the triple meltdown, a survey showed.
Seventy-four percent of respondents in the telephone survey said the situation was “not promising” at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s nuclear plant.
The survey, jointly conducted by The Asahi Shimbun and Fukushima Broadcasting Co. on Feb. 20 and 21, is the 11th since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami caused the nuclear disaster in March 2011.
The first was conducted in September 2011, followed by surveys on February or March every year from 2012.
The central government and TEPCO have set a goal of completing the decommissioning work “in 30 to 40 years,” but their efforts so far have been hit with various problems and delays.
Although evacuation orders have been lifted, many residents who fled the disaster have not returned to their homes near the plant. Still, the government plans to entice people to move into municipalities around the nuclear plant.
According to the survey, 21 percent of respondents viewed the new settlement policy as “promising” for revitalizing the area, compared with 72 percent who said it was “not promising.”
One constant problem in the decommissioning work is the continual stream of contaminated water that must be stored in tanks at the site of the plant.
With space running out, the government’s policy is to treat the water and dump it into the sea, even though the process will not remove all radioactive substances.
Thirty-five percent of respondents approved this policy, up from 31 percent in the 2020 survey, while 53 percent opposed the policy, down from 57 percent.
However, 87 percent of respondents said they were worried about damage caused by rumors over the dumping of the water into the sea, such as overexaggerated claims about the effects. Of them, 48 percent were “greatly” worried while 39 percent were worried “to a certain degree.”
The government continues to hold explanatory briefings about the water-dumping policy at local sites, but the effort has not reduced the people’s concerns.
The respondents were also asked whether the government should be held responsible for failing to prevent the nuclear disaster from occurring. Eighty-four percent agreed, including 33 percent who said the state has “great responsibility” and 51 percent who cited “a certain degree of responsibility.”
Forty-five percent of respondents in their 60s and 44 percent aged 70 or older said the government was “greatly responsible.”
Twenty-eight percent of respondents gave high marks to the government’s response so far to the nuclear disaster, while 50 percent had low evaluations.
As for TEPCO, 39 percent said the utility has acted responsibly over the 10 years since the accident, compared with 43 percent who said, “It hasn’t.”
And only 32 percent of respondents said the country has learned lessons from the nuclear accident, while 57 percent said it has not.
All nuclear reactors in Japan were shut down following the Fukushima disaster. Much tougher safety standards were established, and some reactors have been brought back online.
Sixteen percent of the Fukushima residents approved restarts of nuclear plants while 69 percent said they should remain offline.
Nationwide, 32 percent were in favor of the restarts and 53 percent were against, according to a phone survey conducted on Feb. 13 and 14 that showed opposition is higher in Fukushima Prefecture.
Half of the Fukushima respondents said restoration of the prefecture was on track, including 3 percent who said “greatly” and 47 percent who said “to a certain degree.”
In the 2012 survey, 7 percent said restoration was on track. The ratio jumped to 36 percent in 2016.
In the 2019 survey, conducted a year after most of the decontamination work was completed in the prefecture, the figure increased to 52 percent, but it has since remained at around the same level.
Sixteen percent of respondents said they feel “great” anxiety over the effects of radioactive materials released in the accident on themselves and their families, while 48 percent felt a “certain degree” of anxiety.
The overall ratio of 64 percent was down from 91 percent in September 2011 and 68 percent in 2016. But the latest figure was up from 56 percent in 2020.
By sex, 69 percent of female respondents and 59 percent of males felt anxious about the radioactive fallout.
In addition, 79 percent of all respondents were worried that the public will lose interest in the plight of the victims of the nuclear accident. Of them, 34 percent were “greatly” worried and 45 percent were worried “to a certain degree.” Nineteen percent were not worried very much or not at all.
Fifty percent think the image of Fukushima Prefecture has been restored to the pre-disaster level, but only 4 percent “largely” believe this is the case.
The overall figure has improved from 30 percent in the 2016 survey.
But the nationwide survey on Feb. 13 and 14 showed that only 40 percent believe that Fukushima Prefecture’s image has been restored.
The survey used home phone numbers for voters in Fukushima Prefecture, excluding some areas, selected at random by computer. It received valid responses from 1,049, or 54 percent, of the 1,955 voters contacted.
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PSYCHOTIC IRRATIONALITY AND STUPIDITY
What have the massive gulf coast hurricanes harvey, maria others, taught me? The monster coldspell and failure of the grid in texas, with temps in the teens . Almost freezing to death. Almost dying again of starvation like during the hurricanes. Almost dying of thirst and coliform water. Texas is the rightwing whore of the south. Texas is where the South texas Project nuclear reactors, at bay city, lost backup and almost melted down again, like they did during Harvey. This occured in the last 3 weeks, during the blackkouts. . There was no water in half of texas. Even hospitals in Austn. Texas had no water. Texas is a total failure, with the pandemic still going.
I write this diatribe-invective, appealing to the sense and sanity, of the american people and people in the WORLD. No one is listening
30 years too late Its all 30 years too late. The nukeape countries are Pronuke energy. Pronuclear weapons-generals attached at the hip, to nuclear power and Nuclear military industrial complexes and stock markets. Millions of minnions.
In Nuke countrys like the USA , Australia, France, Russia Canada . Australias wildfires are starting to burn again. Like all the huge wildfires, they are from hydrocarbon residue in soils, drought , global warming, pryophoric radionuclides like uranium waste, in the soil. MEGA Firestorms.
Every year radionuclide wildfires have been raging , at fukushima, chernobyl, santa susana , INL. Santa Susana had. two meltdons, idaho national laboratory had 3 . It is The pyrophoricity of all radionuclides, the Uranium, plutonium, cesium 137 cobalt 60 strontium 90 americium, thorium 90 . Radium and uranium, from fracking from nuclear , from uranium mining, from oil refining and burning hydrocarbons.
Areas around Mayak and Hanford have perrenial wildfires .
Areas around los alamos, have had perrenial-massive wild fires. Wildfires will happen this year at Los Alamos, from global warming, drought and radionuclide pyrophoric catalysis. Plutonium burns, when exposed to air, like the rocky flats, plutonium pit factory, in arvada in the 60s, 70s, and, 80s.
Plutonium, depleted uranium, uranium, amerecium dust contamination, from plutonium pit manufacture, at Los alamos. Wildfire areas have grown since the last wildfire. They are spreading.
Wildfires engulphed half of australia, half of the usa, a third of the Amazon in the past 3 years.
Huge swaths, in nuclear polluted Arctic and Siberia regions, now annually have wildfires.
Neo liberal creeps redbaiters and warwongers are entrenched, with the military industrial complexes of the western world. Nukeapes entreched in russia. Russia wants to Build crappy nuke plants, in third world counties.
More nuke missiles . Billions and trillions, for weapons as people starve , infrastrucures errode the economies suk. A steep race downward to environmental and nuclear oblivion. There are 30,000 tonnes, of hi level nuke waste in huge thin, tin metal casks across the USA. The equivalents of 10 million nuclear bombs . Stored outside on pads, in thin skin cracked-casks. All around the country NM, texas, Nevada, san onofre, Cali, wa, NM, fla and by reactors.
If u or I were wi 20 feet, of 50 pounds of that hilevel waste, it will emmit enough gamma and beta rays, to kill u in 20minutes.
Florida has several beatup, old, reactors as do texas, Louisiana , miss , carolina etc.
5 to ten extra hurricanes per season now. More eartquakes. Failure to close embrittled, 30 and 40 yo rattletrap, reactors . This will lead to nuclear catastrophe. Radionuclides in trace amounts, in the environment, increase wild fires, 30 fold by making them hotter bigger and, much more profuse. Radionuclides Increase the radiuss and breadth of wildfires, like the huge 90,000 acre wildfire at Idaho National laboratory, where the area is saturated w radionuclides.
If even two or three nuke complexes go off , half the country will get very sick, in merica . One reactor complex meltdown will destroy an entire region, like Chernobyl and Fukushima.
There will ne no one, to stop the country, from going up in multiple chemical and nuclear explosions with fires if more than 1 catastrophe occurs .
There will be No drinkable water. All electric grids will be down. Two-Thirds of the country , will be sick and dying. many people and animals bleeding through every pore in their bodies. Total radiation sickess inside and out, from internal radionuclides and external beta and gamma irradiation.
Half or more the country will be having wildfires, next year there will be 6 extra hurricanes.
It will not be civil war that destroys america . Those of us who have survived the Hurricanes like marias, sandy harvey. Survived the blackouts. Survive massive wildfires, know that the crooked rightwing-bobo-civil war-nonsense, is bs and coverup of the ugliest monsters.
People will be too sick and disabled to move or eat , much less shoot anyone else when the old embrittled.reactors start going off from being so old. It will be from serial incopetence and serial eventsz from more hurricanes, from infrastructure failure. One or more may g off from more flooding more earthqakes more wildfires. The govt extends nuclear reactor licenses, derpugulates their supervision further, does not mandate-shutting them down .
They are so expensive, dangerous, with no place safe to store, their extinction level-hoardes of hi level nuclear waste.
There will be catastrophic attritition and death following nuclear melt downs. It will lead to more chemical plants blowing-up. More power outages. More nuke reactors blowing up. Hi level nuke waste fires, across the usa. The USA is already inundated w the radionuclides – internally, in our water , in our landfills Americans are so stupid
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