The Japanese government has drawn up a roadmap for reconstructing areas in 12 municipalities near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that were previously designated as evacuation zones.
According to the plan, in areas of these municipalities where the evacuation order has been lifted, the government will finish decontaminating and restoring water supplies, sewage systems, and other lifeline infrastructure within the next 2 years. It says the decontamination and decommission of the crippled nuclear reactors should create jobs in these municipalities during this period. The roadmap says the government will take social responsibility for having promoted nuclear energy as a state policy, and it will ensure the execution of the measures until the very end.