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ovide enough protection. Soothing pronouncements by local governments and a cademics about the eventual ability to live safely near the ruined plant can seem to be based on lit tle more than hope. No one knows how much exposure to low doses of rad iation causes a significant risk of premature deat h. That means Japanese living in contaminated area s are likely to become the subjects of future stud ies — the second time in seven decades that Japane se have become a test case for the effects of radi ation exposure, after the bombings of Hiroshima an d Nagasaki. The national government has declared itself respon sible for cleaning up only the towns in the evacua tion zone; local governments have already begun cl eaning cities and towns outside that area. Inside the 12-mile ring, which includes Futaba, th e Environmental Ministry has pledged to reduce rad iation levels by half within two years — a relativ ely easy goal because short-lived isotopes will de teriorate. The bigger question is how long it will take to reach the ultimate goal of bringing level s down to about 1 millisievert per year, the annua l limit for the general public from artificial sou rces of radiation that is recommended by the Inter national Commission on Radiological Protection. Th at is a much more daunting task given that it will require removing cesium 137, an isotope that will remain radioactive for decades. Trial cleanups have been delayed for months by the search for a storage site for enough contaminated dirt to fill 33 domed football stadiums. Even eva cuated communities have refused to accept it. And Tomoya Yamauchi, the radiation expert from Kob e University who performed tests in Fukushima City
after extensive remediation efforts, found that r adiation levels inside homes had dropped by only a bout 25 percent. That left parts of the city with levels of radiation four times higher than the rec ommended maximum exposure. “We can only conclude that these efforts have so fa r been a failure,” he said. Minamisoma, a small city whose center sits about 1 5 miles from the nuclear plant, is a good place to get a sense of the likely limitations of decontam ination efforts. The city has cleaned dozens of schools, parks and sports facilities in hopes of enticing back the 30 ,000 of its 70,000 residents who have yet to retur n since the accident. On a recent morning, a small army of bulldozers and dump trucks were resurfaci ng a high school soccer field and baseball diamond with a layer of reddish brown dirt. Workers burie d the old topsoil in a deep hole in a corner of th e soccer field. The crew’s overseer, Masahiro Saku ra, said readings at the field had dropped substan tially, but he remains anxious because many parts of the city were not expected to be decontaminated for at least two years. These days, he lets his three young daughters outd oors only to go to school and play in a resurfaced park. “Is it realistic to live like this?” he ask ed. The challenges are sure to be more intense inside the 12-mile zone, where radiation levels in some p laces have reached nearly 510 millisieverts a year , 25 times above the cutoff for evacuation. Already, the proposed repatriation has opened rift s among those who have been displaced. The 11,500 displaced residents of Okuma — many of whom now li ve in rows of prefabricated homes 60 miles inland
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