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2013 March 13 - 19 [NUCLEAR CRISIS]

JRP member urges gov’t to return Fukushima evacuees to radiation-contaminated areas

A Japan Restoration Party parliamentarian on March 13 urged the government to return evacuees of the Fukushima nuclear accident to their contaminated hometowns, saying that radiation levels in these areas are low.

The remark was made by JRP member Nishida Yuzuru at a House of Representatives budget committee session. He said that the government should immediately reassess evacuation zones around the crippled plant which were so designated with an “inaccurate estimate” and have residents return. “This is the only scientifically correct decision to be made,” he added.

Nishida went on to absurdly claim that cesium is the only radioactive material that was scattered widely from the Fukushima Daiichi reactors and that the expected level of exposure would only amount to several millisieverts over the course of a year.

He also asserted that the creation of evacuation zones was a way “to propagate anti-nuclear sentiment in order to obstruct the development of Japan’s economy.”