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Evaluation of Residents’ Timing of Return to or New Settlement in Kawauchi Village, at 10 Years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident

Kawauchi village in Fukushima prefecture was affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident, and residents had to evacuate from their hometown in 2011. This study clarified the timing and related factors with regard to residents returning to or newly settling in Kawauchi. A s...

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Autores principales: Matsunaga, Hitomi, Orita, Makiko, Liu, Mengjie, Kashiwazaki, Yuya, Taira, Yasuyuki, Takamura, Noboru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8744840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010803
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010543
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author Matsunaga, Hitomi
Orita, Makiko
Liu, Mengjie
Kashiwazaki, Yuya
Taira, Yasuyuki
Takamura, Noboru
author_facet Matsunaga, Hitomi
Orita, Makiko
Liu, Mengjie
Kashiwazaki, Yuya
Taira, Yasuyuki
Takamura, Noboru
author_sort Matsunaga, Hitomi
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description Kawauchi village in Fukushima prefecture was affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident, and residents had to evacuate from their hometown in 2011. This study clarified the timing and related factors with regard to residents returning to or newly settling in Kawauchi. A survey was conducted using a questionnaire, from February to March 2021, with assistance from the Kawauchi village office and post office. Of the 374 residents, 170 (45.5%) had returned to or newly settled in Kawauchi within the past 2 years (group 1), 84 (22.5%) in the past 2–5 years (group 2), and 99 (26.5%) after more than 5 years (group 3) following the evacuation order. An additional 21 residents (5.5%) who had lived in Kawauchi at the time of the FDNPP had not yet returned (group 4). Compared with the other groups, residents in group 1 were more satisfied with their current lives and were coping better with stress. Even though they had experienced a serious nuclear disaster, residents of Kawauchi village who returned to their hometown in the early phase had a high sense of satisfaction with their current life one decade after the FDNPP accident.
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spelling pubmed-87448402022-01-11 Evaluation of Residents’ Timing of Return to or New Settlement in Kawauchi Village, at 10 Years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident Matsunaga, Hitomi Orita, Makiko Liu, Mengjie Kashiwazaki, Yuya Taira, Yasuyuki Takamura, Noboru Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Kawauchi village in Fukushima prefecture was affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident, and residents had to evacuate from their hometown in 2011. This study clarified the timing and related factors with regard to residents returning to or newly settling in Kawauchi. A survey was conducted using a questionnaire, from February to March 2021, with assistance from the Kawauchi village office and post office. Of the 374 residents, 170 (45.5%) had returned to or newly settled in Kawauchi within the past 2 years (group 1), 84 (22.5%) in the past 2–5 years (group 2), and 99 (26.5%) after more than 5 years (group 3) following the evacuation order. An additional 21 residents (5.5%) who had lived in Kawauchi at the time of the FDNPP had not yet returned (group 4). Compared with the other groups, residents in group 1 were more satisfied with their current lives and were coping better with stress. Even though they had experienced a serious nuclear disaster, residents of Kawauchi village who returned to their hometown in the early phase had a high sense of satisfaction with their current life one decade after the FDNPP accident. MDPI 2022-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8744840/ /pubmed/35010803 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010543 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Taira, Yasuyuki
Takamura, Noboru
Evaluation of Residents’ Timing of Return to or New Settlement in Kawauchi Village, at 10 Years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident
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title_fullStr Evaluation of Residents’ Timing of Return to or New Settlement in Kawauchi Village, at 10 Years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of Residents’ Timing of Return to or New Settlement in Kawauchi Village, at 10 Years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident
title_short Evaluation of Residents’ Timing of Return to or New Settlement in Kawauchi Village, at 10 Years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident
title_sort evaluation of residents’ timing of return to or new settlement in kawauchi village, at 10 years after the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant accident
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8744840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010803
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010543
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