Potential Impacts of Prolonged Evacuation due to Radioactive Contamination on the Reconstruction of Rural Fukushima

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  • 放射性物質に起因する避難生活の長期化による福島県農村地域復興への潜在的影響
  • ホウシャセイ ブッシツ ニ キイン スル ヒナン セイカツ ノ チョウキカ ニ ヨル フクシマケン ノウソン チイキ フッコウ エ ノ センザイテキ エイキョウ

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In this paper, we clarified how the government policy on decontamination measure of radioactive material treats rural areas of Fukushima by scrutinizing zoning and priority criteria established by the national government for the decontamination work. The priority criteria were established by the government to deal with decontamination work in an effective manner by considering radioactive material concentration level, population density and public facilities of contaminated areas. The result of our analysis suggests that, however, it would structurally cause delay of decontamination work in rural areas which are often sparsely populated with less public facilities. Such delay would be exacerbated by obstacles in consensus building among stakeholders for decontamination work and lack of storage sites for contaminated soil and materials. Also, contaminated areas with high radioactive material concentration level would face another obstacle, the limit of decontamination work. All of these would prolong the evacuation of residents, which would be likely to decrease the number of those who return to their old home. To cope with these difficulties, we proposed that the municipal government of Fukushima should formulate district-scale reconstruction plan to carry out decontamination work and reconstruction of public facilities.

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