Japan Re-Opens Some Towns Near Fukushima

JSBiff writes "Bloomberg, among others, is reporting that the Japanese government has partially lifted the Fukushima evacuation order, allowing residents to return to five towns previously in the evacuation zone. Additionally, a key milestone has been reached in achieving a full 'cold shutdown' of the damaged reactors — the temperature of all three reactors has dropped below 100 deg. C. It's a shame these people were unable to return home for six months. For people who lived closer to the plant, they might never be allowed to return home. Now, the question is: will residents actually want to return, other than to maybe retrieve stuff they left behind?"

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[Doc Ruby]

Why wouldn't the Japanese government reopen these areas to residents? The government obviously doesn't care one bit about the health or safety of those people. Or anyone else in Japan - the people near Fukushima aren't being singled out.

Or, for that matter, anyone else. America's government isn't doing anything more to protect us, even as several nuke plants were threatened to within a hair of their design specs (or beyond) this Summer, by floods and by earthquakes.

The heroic sacrifice of workers to entomb Chernobyl in 1986 at tremendous loss of life, health and everything else really starts to make the demonized Soviet government look pretty good in comparison.