Iitate-mura: Ten years after the March 2011 nuclear power accident

This report describes the ten-year history of the village since the Great earthquake and the TEPCO nuclear accident, including village countermeasures, the evacuation, decontamination, the start of the return to the village, and its progress until March 2021. [...] The impact of the earthquake and the TEPCO Nuclear Accident on Iitate-mura within 9 days after the earthquake and the accident March Impacts of the Earthquake Impacts of the TEPCO Nuclear Accidents 11 14:46 The earthquake occurred. [...] ** The soup kitchens and the evacuation halls were used for evacuees not only from the nuclear accident but the earthquake and the tsunami because there were no evacuees from the both disaster in Iitate-mura at the initial stage of the disaster. [...] 2) The process of evacuation of the whole village The evacuation activity in Iitate-mura began on March 15 when the Government ordered the indoor evacuation in the Warabidaira district. [...] Since it is considered that the air dose rate doesn’t decrease even if only the areas around the houses are decontaminated, the Government decontaminated forest areas near the living environment by removing the fallen leaves in the range from the forest edge to the back side of about 20m.