Radiation Risk Perception of the Residents Who Provided Land for the Interim Storage Facilities in Okuma and Futaba Towns Adjacent to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
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1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Questionnaire
2.3. Statistical Methods
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Response | Overall % (n) | Yes % (n) 18.9 (187) | No % (n) 78.4 (801) | p-Value | |
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Town of residence | Okuma | 56.9 (562) | 56.1 (106) | 56.9 (456) | 0.952 |
Futaba | 43.1 (426) | 43.3 (81) | 43.1 (345) | ||
Sex, n = 976 | Male | 55.2 (539) | 59.4 (111) | 54.2 (428) | 0.206 |
Female | 44.8 (437) | 40.6 (76) | 45.8 (361) | ||
Age (years), n = 975 | <65 | 37.3 (364) | 35.5 (66) | 37.8 (298) | 0.562 |
≥65 | 62.7 (611) | 64.5 (120) | 62.2 (491) | ||
Intention to return, n = 980 | Already returned | 3.5 (34) | 1.6 (3) | 3.9 (31) | 0.254 |
Want to return | 13.4 (131) | 13.4 (25) | 13.4 (106) | ||
Undecided | 26.5 (260) | 23.5 (44) | 27.2 (216) | ||
No intention to return | 56.6 (555) | 61.5 (115) | 55.5 (440) | ||
Offspring effects will occur from living in Okuma or Futaba, n = 965 | Yes | 38.0 (367) | 40.7 (74) | 37.4 (293) | 0.417 |
No | 62.0 (598) | 59.3 (108) | 62.6 (490) | ||
Trust in the information about the ISF provided by public authorities, n = 979 | Yes | 59.3 (581) | 62.9 (117) | 58.5 (464) | 0.272 |
No | 40.7 (398) | 37.1 (69) | 41.5 (329) | ||
Acceptance of ISF, n = 975 | Accepted | 69.9 (679) | 77.9 (141) | 68.0 (538) | 0.018 |
Unable to judge | 19.2 (187) | 16.0 (29) | 20.0 (158) | ||
Do not accept | 10.9 (106) | 6.1 (11) | 12.0 (95) | ||
Acceptance of removed soil for recycling in the current region of residence, n = 975 | Accept | 24.7 (241) | 30.4 (56) | 23.4 (185) | 0.127 |
Unable to judge | 54.6 (532) | 45.9 (91) | 55.8 (441) | ||
Do not accept | 20.7 (202) | 20.1 (37) | 20.9 (165) |
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Matsunaga, H.; Zabirova, A.; Kashiwazaki, Y.; Orita, M.; Takamura, N. Radiation Risk Perception of the Residents Who Provided Land for the Interim Storage Facilities in Okuma and Futaba Towns Adjacent to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Appl. Sci. 2025, 15, 6645. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15126645
Matsunaga H, Zabirova A, Kashiwazaki Y, Orita M, Takamura N. Radiation Risk Perception of the Residents Who Provided Land for the Interim Storage Facilities in Okuma and Futaba Towns Adjacent to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Applied Sciences. 2025; 15(12):6645. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15126645
Chicago/Turabian StyleMatsunaga, Hitomi, Aizhan Zabirova, Yuya Kashiwazaki, Makiko Orita, and Noboru Takamura. 2025. "Radiation Risk Perception of the Residents Who Provided Land for the Interim Storage Facilities in Okuma and Futaba Towns Adjacent to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant" Applied Sciences 15, no. 12: 6645. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15126645
APA StyleMatsunaga, H., Zabirova, A., Kashiwazaki, Y., Orita, M., & Takamura, N. (2025). Radiation Risk Perception of the Residents Who Provided Land for the Interim Storage Facilities in Okuma and Futaba Towns Adjacent to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Applied Sciences, 15(12), 6645. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15126645