JAPAN. Iitate. January 12th, 2012.
A decontamination site near Kusano Elementary School in IITATE, a village 45km from the Fukushima nuclear plant on January 12th, 2012. Since December 19th, 2011, the Japanese government seeks to establish a procedure that provides safely optimized decontamination processes in this town. The main goal is to enable the return of many of the 6,500 villagers.

The method implies three aspects: the detailed survey of the soil contamination, the physical process of clearing up by testing divers means and the evaluation of decontamination efficiency. It needs to be noted that all the technologies should be easily communicated, as the local authorities will take over the operation.

In March 2012, a report on governmental decontamination model project will be issued. After that, the local communities are supposed to take into account - with their own plan - all the used methods for cleaning up the soils, rice paddies, buildings, sidewalks, trees, streets and so on.

When IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] delegation visited to Fukushima in December 2011, one of their recommendations consists of saying "Optimize the operation, even if things aren't always perfect", alerting the binary thinking through which the Japanese officials have too much predilection to evaluate the efficiency - either say "excellent" or "nothing".