During work to decontaminate the area, residents complained about "noxious fumes" and formed a group, HauxAir, to campaign for clean air in the village and surrounding areas.

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The government also has released ambitious plans to decontaminate surrounding areas to radiation levels that while still many times what they were before the accident are considered well below levels that scientists have found to be dangerous.

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The army reckons it will take about 32 months to build the incinerator, 16 months to disassemble and prepare the weapons for incineration, and about a year to shut down the plant and decontaminate the site.

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Expressing his sympathy for those killed and forced from their homes by the disaster, he said it was vital to stabilise the nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi as soon as possible and to decontaminate the areas around the nuclear plant.

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Algae can be fed from waste-streams of CO2 from fossil-fuel power stations as a carbon elimination strategy and can also decontaminate groundwater, so there is a potential mix of environmental solutions in aid of a common goal of fuel beyond oil.

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Unfortunately, no victory big or small will save Sofia and her peers from their fate: Scientists who have studied the area say even if spraying stopped completely today, it would take a few generations to decontaminate the water and soil, and for any lingering health impacts to fade away.

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