福島・双葉町で準備宿泊　１１年ぶり帰還へ「大きな一歩」

　東京電力福島第１原発事故で帰還困難区域に指定され、唯一、全住民の避難が続く福島県双葉町で２０日、帰還に向け自宅などで寝泊まりできる「準備宿泊」が始まった。原発事故後、約１１年ぶりとなる町内での居住に、訪れた町民からは「大きな一歩だ」と喜ぶ声が聞かれた。
　準備宿泊は、６月以降の避難指示解除を目指すＪＲ双葉駅周辺の「特定復興再生拠点区域」など町面積の約１５％に当たる一帯で行う。町によると、自宅を解体したなどの理由で、利用する意向の住民は現時点で１１世帯１５人にとどまる。（2022/01/20-19:44）

Nearly 11 years after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, a program started Thursday to allow residents evacuated from Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, to lodge in the northeastern Japan town, including at their houses.
   The program is designed to make preparations for the residents' return to their hometown. Subject to the preparatory lodging program are areas accounting for about 15 pct of the town, including around JR Futaba Station, where the lifting of the evacuation order is eyed for June or later.
   Futaba is now the only remaining municipality with a blanket evacuation order following the country's worst nuclear accident, which happened at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
   The start of preparatory lodging marked a "big step forward," said Yuji Onuma, 45, who came from Ibaraki Prefecture, south of Fukushima.
   Seeing water and electricity supply restored in his house, Onuma said, "I didn't think at the time of the accident that (my house) could be put back (to its original state) to this extent." He plans to stay there on weekends, together with his two elementary school sons.