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Early returns to Fukushima
www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Early_returns_to_Fukushima_0204121.html, posted 2012 by peter in fukushima health japan jpquake politics
Restrictions in sizeable parts of Fukushima's evacuation area have been relaxed, enabling some residents to visit at will and work towards a permanent return. Two towns have opened, and a third will follow in two weeks' time.
At midnight on 1 April the restrictions on several areas within 20 kilometres of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were revised. A significant part of these had shown dose rates caused by ambient radioactivity to be below 20 millisieverts per year - the government's benchmark for the return.
These towns are considerably farther from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant than Okuma, where our family used to live, though.