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Interestingly, they planned to lift the evacuation order like 5 years ago for a large part of the zone. But the local government asked to postpone it by 4 years
by Grue3 9y ago
Interestingly, they planned to lift the evacuation order like 5 years ago for a large part of the zone. But the local government asked to postpone it by 4 years so that there is time to rebuild the infrastructure, which was completely washed away by tsunami. Regardless of all the nuclear stuff, people would've been living in absolutely terrible conditions with no electricity, water, transport, convenience stores, schools, hospitals and so on. And now they have all of this, but people are still slow to return. There's a lot of interesting stuff being built in the area though (J-Village, etc), so maybe they will eventually.
- ekianjo 9y agoNo, in the fukushima plant area the damage to inhabitations was minor and you can clearly see that in the tv reports about the evacuated areas.
- Grue3 9y agoWell, I can only tell what I saw with my own eyes. I went to a town named Tomioka last year to see the newly reopened train station. I think it's about 10 km from Dai-ichi plant. The evacuation order was lifted in March 2017. Anyway, the area around the station, which used to be the downtown, was completely washed away. After cleanup it's now just a giant parking lot as far as eyes can see, except for a few post-tsunami buildings. I walked uphill and there were also many heavily damaged buildings. Even if you can't see the damage, flooding often makes the entire building unsafe due to mold growth or whatever. Some areas might not have been damaged much, but like I said, they depended on infrastructure in the destroyed areas, which is only now being restored.