Fukushima's radioactive wasteland turns into art gallery

Twelve artists put together what might be the most inaccessible art exhibition in the world

When Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant went into meltdown on 11 March 2011, thousands of people jumped in their cars and fled north. Some had second thoughts. They stopped to check the direction of the wind, then drove in the opposite direction, away from the plume of radiation spreading from the stricken plant.

"It was an everyday form of knowledge that can be extraordinarily important in times of crisis," said Jason Waite, one of the curators of an art project that has opened, without fanfare, inside Fukushima's nuclear exclusion zone.