Wildfires that broke out in a mountain forest near the crippled
Fukushima nuclear power plant last weekend are causing worries that
radiation from the 2011 disaster might be spread with the smoke, dust
and flames.
Eight helicopters from Fukushima, Miyagi and Gunma prefectures were
dispatched to Mount Juman in Naime in the north east of the country,
where radiation levels have remained high since the Fukushima plant
experienced a triple meltdown in the worst nuclear disaster since
Chernobyl in 1986.
When these helicopters couldn’t stop the blaze, said the Manichi, local officials summoned help from the Ground Self-Defense Force, a branch of the Japanese military.
The fire was apparently started by lighting in the abandoned area,
which the Japanese government has designated as a “difficult-to-return”
zone, meaning that evacuees of the initial disaster have not returned
home due to persistently high radiation measurements.
Data: 05.05.2017
Fonte: www.bellona.org
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