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@Edano, yeah, the crane doen't look right www.tepco.co.jp Seems like its arm might be in the upper-deck debris.

But even then:
Vulnerability is related to age, and our youngest are most vulnerable. In Chernobyl,
adults over age 20 suffered no health hazards. So, in Fukushima, evacuations should be
for babies and children. Adults over 20 do not need to be evacuated.

It seems it is now official people within 20km at least will not go home. australiancannonball.com

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Japanese newspaper The Daily Yomiuri reports government sources have said it could be “several decades” before the area is considered safe to enter.

For the first time, the government has released figures revealing that many communities within 20 kilometres of the complex have contamination levels up to 500 times higher than safety limits.

The radiation readings were taken in 50 locations within a 20-kilometre radius of the Fukushima nuclear plant.

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The Japanese government says highly radioactive areas around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will remain no-go zones for decades after the damaged complex is stabilised.

Authorities say they plan to bring the stricken nuclear plant to a state of cold shutdown early next year.

But with some areas near the complex continuing to show high levels of radioactive contamination, the government says it is unavoidable that some places will remain no-go zones.

Japanese newspaper The Daily Yomiuri reports government sources have said it could be "several decades" before the area is considered safe to enter.

For the first time, the government has released figures revealing that many communities within 20 kilometres of the complex have contamination levels up to 500 times higher than safety limits.

The radiation readings were taken in 50 locations within a 20-kilometre radius of the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Based on that data, the government has released estimates of the annual dose of radiation residents would be exposed to.

It found that in one town, Okuma, people would receive a dose of 508 milisieverts per year - more than 500 times the acceptable limit.

At more than half the locations it was more than 20 times the limit.

Tokyo Institute of Technology's associate professor of radiobiology, Yoshihisa Matsumoto, says efforts to decontaminate the area will likely prove difficult.

Reactors at Fukushima melted down in March after the earthquake and tsunami which killed tens of thousands of people knocked out back-up power plants at the site.

Reading between the lines: It's been 5 months. The evacuation is now going to last decades. The plant has yet to have anything but the barest of pretenses of "stability".

If they are alive in decades they can return home!

very sad this whole situation.

@all It's unconscionable that they've been stringing these poor people along. It would be far better for everyone if they were told you can't go home so they can move on and have some sort of closure.

@LM Imagine what that would have done to the financial markets. Suddenly, even the surviving homes are uninhabitable, their entire market value simply written off the books for an indeterminate time.

@LM My daughter turned 1 yesterday and I still had to find time to embed vdeos etc. At least even if people hop through I create a central point. I made $5 dollars in adsens money this month so trust me when I say I don't do it for the money. Case closed.

@AustralianCannonball heh...we know you don't AC. None of us are living high on the hog over this endeavor.