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NAMIE, Japan — Jinichi Abe grins as he watches diggers working earth near his rice fields, knowing they are returning still more fields to productivity after Fukushima nuclear reactors exploded and sprayed the area with radiation over a decade ago.
"Without growing rice, this town can't recover," said Abe, 85, a 13th-generation farmer, who said the rice — unsellable due to rumours — had been used as animal feed, among other uses, in previous years. "Even now, we can't sell it as Fukushima rice.
There is one major shopping centre, one clinic, two dentists, one combined primary and junior high school — and a dearth of jobs. In better times, there had been a thriving pottery business, and farming, along the coastal plain. "Namie was hit by four disasters — the quake, the tsunami, the reactor accident and then rumours about radiation danger," said Takemitsu Imazu, president of Biomass Resin Fukushima.
The plastic isn't biodegradable, Imazu said, but using rice cuts the petroleum products involved — and growing more rice in Namie reduces overall atmospheric CO2.
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