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Namie

Town in Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

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Facts about Namie

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Located in the Administrative Territorial Entity:
Population:
0,937
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Area:
223.1
Inception:
5/1/1956
Located in or Next to Body of Water:
Wikipedia

Wikipedia | Namie, Fukushima

Namie is a town located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of 29 February 2020 the town has a population of 1,238 in 794 households, although the official registered population was 17,114 in 6853 households. The total area of the town is 223.14 square kilometres (86.15 sq mi). The town was evacuated as a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster—being directly downwind from the power plant—and was within the exclusion zone set up in response to the disaster. Following ongoing clean-up efforts, Namie's business district and town hall have reopened, but access to more heavily contaminated western parts of the town remains restricted.

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Wikiquote | Namie, Fukushima

Four years ago, the fishing town of Namie, on the northeast coast of Japan, lived through an experience of malediction biblical in scope. Beginning at 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, without warning, the town’s population of 23,000 was struck by a triple disaster in quick succession: an earthquake measuring nine on the Richter scale that severely damaged the upper town, a fifteen-meter tsunami that carried away the entire lower town, and finally, in the days that followed, a blanket of radioactivity, from explosions in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant just six miles away, that settled over the town’s ruins.

Michael Ignatieff, "Fukushima: The Price of Nuclear Power," New York Review of Books, August 12, 2015