Re:Ultra Safe Nuclear
by Manfredo_1 on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:31PM
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The "difficult to return zones" are exactly that: the subset of zones that are represent the greatest challenge to resettle. Most of the exclusion zones with less severe categories have been lifted [1].
The point is, people assume because of Chernobyl that a nuclear disaster will render land uninhabitable permanently, or at least for decades. That is not the case. Chernobyl remains excluded because there's no real incentive to clean it up and reopen. The city was built to support the power plant, so with the latter gone there's no real reason to put in the effort to decontaminate the former.
1. https://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/site/portal-english/en03-08....
is this true for Fukushima? As far as I understand, 8% of the "Difficult-to-Return zones" have been cleared up for access to people, but that is a far cry from "all cleared up, everybody goes back home".
[0] https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200916/p2a/00m/0na/01...