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David Guttenfelder
The Associated Press
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"JAPAN'S NUCLEAR REFUGEES"
On March 11 Japan's 9.0 earthquake triggered a massive tsunami and caused the meltdown of the Dai-ichi nuclear reactors. Around 80,000 people were ordered to leave their homes in the vicinity of the crippled plant leaving behind radioactive contaminated ghost towns inside the so-called "exclusion zone". The fate of these people and their communities remains unknown.
*** Footsteps are imprinted in the drying mud on the streets on Odaka, Japan, inside the exclusion zone encircling the Dai-ichi nuclear power station. After the disaster on March 11, tens of thousands were ordered to leave their homes in the vicinity of the damaged nuclear plant. |
