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Japan to recommend evacuations from hot spots outside Fukushima no-entry zone - Japan Times
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Friday, June 17, 2011
Evacuation urged for radioactive hot spots
Recommendation to leave limited areas outside 20-km zone won't be mandatoryBy MASAMI ITO
Staff writer
The government said Thursday it will recommend the evacuation of residents living in radioactive hot spots outside the no-entry zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
In-depth monitoring by the government found the hot spots outside the 20-km evacuation zone in numerous places, including in Date and Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture where levels of radiation exceeded the equivalent of 20 millisieverts per year.
According to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, the results of the monitoring showed that the hot spots were limited in scope, unlike the situation in the evacuation zone, and therefore the government determined that "an across-the-board evacuation or restrictions of industrial activities" were unnecessary.
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Households in hot spot zones will be contacted individually by their local governments. Those who wish to leave will be issued documents certifying them as disaster victims and given government support to evacuate, while those who wish to remain will be able to continue to do so.
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