40% of evacuees from town in Fukushima say they will not return
15:10, 2 July 2012
FUKUSHIMA., July 2. KAZINFORM About 40 percent of evacuees from the town hosting the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have no intention of returning there, a recent poll indicated Monday.
Releasing the result of the poll on 10,025 residents of Okuma, which is now in a no-entry zone, mayor Toshitsuna Watanabe said at a press conference, "Many residents want to return home but they have judged they cannot do so for the time being."
Watanabe also said some respondents who said they will not return home may change their minds depending on progress in work to reduce radioactive materials and compensate them for damage from the crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Kyodo reports.
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