Part of Areas Around Chernobyl Will Be Off Limits Forever, Japanese Media Reports

While the Russian News (RIA Novosti) emphasized the "revitalization" plan for the areas around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the Japanese media decided to focus on the other half of the same story: That half of the areas around Chernobyl will be abandoned forever.

The media and the Japanese viewers are thinking about the areas around Fukushima I Nuke Plant, of course. Even the national government is starting to doubt the efficacy of "decontamination" in the immediate neighborhood of the plant, even though they have promised the residents that the government will do the decontamination so that they can return someday.

Here is one from ANN News (Asahi TV) on 4/25/2012 (the link won't last, as this is a Yahoo link):

チェルノブイリ周辺「永遠に立ち入り禁止」

Areas around Chernobyl will be "off limits forever"

　チェルノブイリ事故による一部の汚染地域には永遠に立ち入ることができなくなります。

Part of the areas contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear accident will be off limits forever.

　汚染区域管理機関副長：「現在の立ち入り制限区域は2000平方キロメートルあるが、このうち約半分（1000平方キロメートル）は今後も永久に立ち入りが制限される」

Deputy head of the contaminated area management agency [I have no idea what the official name is] said, "The current no-entry zone is 2,000 square kilometers, but about half (1,000 square kilometers) will be off limits forever."


　チェルノブイリ事故で、ウクライナの汚染地域を管理する政府機関は24日、立ち入り制限区域の半分は永久に制限が続くと断言しました。対象区域は、面積にして東京23区の約1.6倍にあたる広範囲に及びます。チェルノブイリ事故は26日で発生から26年を迎えます。

The government agency in charge of managing the areas in the Ukrane that have been contaminated by the Chernobyl accident declared on April 24 that the half of the no-entry zone will remain no-entry zone forever. The area is big, about 1.6 times the size of the Tokyo's 23 Special Wards. It will be 26 years on April 26 since the accident.

(H/T Chibaguy)

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