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Inhabitants of Fukushima

vendredi 21 juillet 2017 à 02:00

Japan is planning to force evactuated inhabitants of Fukushima back to their old homes, by cutting off funds for them to live elsewhere.

The article does not give us enough information to deduce that they would be in real danger.

The article has gaps in its understanding of the physical issues: a high level of radiation inside the destroyed plants does not necessarily imply danger to people in surrounding towns, though it might. People are still developing thyroid cancer from radioactive iiodine that they ingested years ago, but the article does not address the current level of radioactive iodine in those towns. It might still be dangerous, but we lack the information here.