After the nuclear accident, the law requires that soil from decontamination in Fukushima Prefecture be finally disposed of outside Fukushima Prefecture by 2045, but 80% of people living outside Fukushima Prefecture are aware of this. A survey conducted by the Ministry of the Environment found that there was no such thing.

The Ministry of the Environment says, "We want to improve the way we communicate with severe results."

The Ministry of the Environment conducted a questionnaire survey on the Internet last October regarding decontamination carried out after the accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant 10 years ago, and received responses from approximately 4,000 people.



The law stipulates that soil produced by decontamination in Fukushima Prefecture should be finally disposed of outside Fukushima Prefecture within 30 years after the start of interim storage, specifically by 2045.



When asked about this in a questionnaire, about 51% of people outside Fukushima Prefecture answered that they had never heard of it.



About 30% of the respondents answered, "I have heard of it, but I didn't know the content at all," and 80% did not know.



The percentage of people who asked the same question three years ago and in the adult questionnaire and answered that they did not know is increasing year by year.



On the other hand, among the people in Fukushima prefecture, 13% answered that they knew the contents well, and about 37% answered that they had heard and knew the contents, and about half of them knew the contents. Fukushima.



A person in charge of the Ministry of the Environment said, "If the contents are not communicated, we cannot discuss where to finalize the landfill, and we take it as a severe result. We would like to improve the way information is conveyed."