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A decade on, only 15% of Fukushima core area decontaminated: Greenpeace -Rajat Ghai

-Down to Earth

The Japanese government’s own figures reveal this, the organisation says in a report to mark 10 years of the disaster

Just 15 per cent of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant’s core area in Japan has been decontaminated a decade after it suffered a catastrophic triple reactor meltdown March 11, 2011, according to a report by non-profit Greenpeace International.

An overall average of 15 per cent of the Special Decontamination Area (SDA) of Fukushima has been decontaminated according to an analysis of the Japanese government’s own data, the report said.

This is despite an enormous decontamination programme by the government, the report titled Fukushima Daiichi 2011-2021: The decontamination myth claimed.

It is also contrary to what the Japanese government’s claim that, with the exception of the ‘difficult-to-return’ zones, decontamination had largely been completed within the SDA that includes the municipalities of Namie and Iitate.

Greenpeace said most of the SDA remained contaminated with radioactive caesium.

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