Taking Back a Nuclear No-Man’s Land Two years after the record-setting earthquake and subsequent tsunami of March 11, 2011, Iitate-mura, a town in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture that had more than 6,800 residents, remains devastated. Radioactive contamination from the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant left the area uninhabitable, … Continue reading →
Revisiting Fukushima’s Ghost Towns–a slideshow
Taking Back a Nuclear No-Man’s Land Two years after the record-setting earthquake and subsequent tsunami of March 11, 2011, Iitate-mura, a town in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture that had more than 6,800 residents, remains devastated. Radioactive contamination from the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant left the area uninhabitable, … Continue reading →