Tuesday, September 4, 2012







Reconstruction Agency says evacuees can return in 2 years

















Anonymous said...

So, the Japanese government is going to build self-contained bubble cities?

If not, their plans of repopulating certain areas in Fukushima will only work if it doesn't rain or snow and wind doesn't blow dust around besides citizens wearing hazmat suits full time not to mention animals and insects traveling at will.

Probably start off with demanding the growing of tea and rice and painting happy faces on what is left of Units 1, 2, 3 and 4 buildings.



Anonymous said...

Animals run away when they sense danger, humans either stand there doing nothing or run head first into it. That's why I suspect humans are the result of de-evolution, not the other way around.

We severely lack basic survival instincts, and the de-evolution will accelerate as the wonders of our "safe" modern technology continue to tear our genetic structure apart.

Anonymous said...

Maybe the Grand Design is what TEPGOV is going to do in lieu of compensation payments, "Hey we kind of fixed everything (sort of) and it only took ten years so you can start living again."

If they are waiting a decade before addressing employment recovery how do they expect the locals to live in the mean time? I guess they can do whatever the poor people trapped in the shelters are doing to pay for their meals. Maybe they'll become as desperate as the bandits in Shichinin no Samurai and start robbing their more fortunate neighboring prefectures.

The term "national government will secure ample, long-term funding" sounds like another tax/userfee/ratehike of some sort. It looks like the government doesn't have to do anything other than say it is OK for people to move back home so they can probably get away with a pretty shoddy recovery effort.

arevamirpal::laprimavera said...

Yup... Wait till Hosono becomes the prime minister...

Anonymous said...

In the long run..the people affected will do all the work, decon efforts..and pay with their health and lives. The government will say they didn't TELL them to go back...

Anonymous said...

I can see the decontamination effort now they'll probably just clean up around the public radiation detection stations like it has been reported on this blog. This is the problem with stationary detectors a mobile detector on a public vehicle like a mail truck would give a much better picture of the actual contamination distribution. BUT that would probably generate a troublesome record for officials. I'm surprised local public health officials have allow people to permanently return without basic sanitation and clean water never mind the radiation levels. No sewer service means people will be doing their business in buckets and dumping the waste wherever they can probably in the river where their neighbors wash stuff.

If the government is going to allow people to move back I think they should at least set up public sanitation facilities and distribute clean water before people are allowed to live there. You can't even do a half-ass decon job without clean water you have to keep the dust suspension down and water is the cheapest way. In a sane world the premature returnees would be issued dosimeters but in the crazy world we live in most would refuse them or shield them in fear it might force them to evacuate again.

I'd also like to point out the "best laid plans of mice and men" principle. Didn't AREVA originally say their water treatment system would work "we have lots of experience cleaning water" they predicted it would take about one year the next thing you know Toshiba is treating water from a perpetual contamination machine with no end in sight. Not only did the AREVA system not deliver it is now just another horribly contaminated mess to deal with.

I think anon 6:35 is right the public will be doing a major portion of the decon work if they are making kids clean out school pools you can be sure they aren't going to hire someone to clean your house. Then there's the issue of what to do with all the new waste this decon effort will generate. Are they going to blend it down and bury it or are they going move it to the other side of the island to "share the pain" ? Or are they just going to wash it down the drain to burden the sewage plants and incinerators?

IIRC this blog has pointed out a few examples of decontamination not making a huge difference.

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