In Japan, evacuees weigh risks of return after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
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MINAMISOMA, Japan — Two weeks ago, Kimie Furuuchi received a letter encouraging her to come home. It was signed by the mayor, and it began, "Dear Minamisoma Evacuee ... ."
"We are trying to create the environment where all evacuees can come back to Minamisoma as soon as possible," the letter read.
Furuuchi folded the letter up and thought it all seemed premature. Government authorities and radiation experts kept saying that her old city could become safer, but almost nobody said it was safe. The ambiguity meant that Furuuchi, like tens of thousands of others who fled their homes after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March, had to weigh the comfort of a homecoming against a danger she could not quantify.
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