The central government on Thursday designated 113 households in Date, Fukushima Prefecture, as areas with radioactive hot spots and recommends that the people living there evacuate despite being outside the no-entry zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
The areas include 113 households in the Ishida, Kamioguni and Shimooguni districts in the Ryozenmachi area, and the Aiyoshi district in the Tsukidatemachi area, where cumulative radiation is expected to exceed the government standard of 20 millisieverts a year.
In issuing the recommendation, the government said it took into consideration whether the households had pregnant women or preschool children whose health risks are higher than others.