» Timing of lifting of an evacuation advisory will be postponed in Iitate and Katsurao

2014/03/01

The government decided to postpone the estimated timing of lifting of an evacuation advisory by one year — until March 2015 — for two villages, Iitate village and Katsurao village in Fukushima Prefecture due to delays in decontamination work..

It is the first time for the estimated timing to have been moved back. Such estimated timings to lift the evacuation advisory have also been set for three other Fukushima municipalities, including the city of Minamisoma and the town of Okuma.
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Lifting of Fukushima villages’ evacuation advisory to be delayed (Japan Times)

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