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SOME Fukushima residents may never return to their homes.

While work to shut down the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan is proceeding steadily, outgoing prime minister Naoto Kan is now expected to announce that .

Data from the , Culture, Sports, Science & Technology suggest that in some places the yearly radiation dose would be over 500 millisieverts, far in excess of the suggested maximum for the general public of 1 millisievert each year.

Meanwhile, that Fukushima was crippled by the earthquake, not the ensuing tsunami as previously thought, are “not correct“, says Japan’s (NISA). The implication was that Japan’s nuclear reactors could not cope with earthquakes, but the in Vienna, Austria, supports NISA’s conclusion.