Article 3HQ1B Town where nobody's home: Fukushima communities struggling to survive

Town where nobody's home: Fukushima communities struggling to survive

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Daniel Hurst in Okuma, Fukushima
from Environment | The Guardian on (#3HQ1B)

Seven years after the nuclear disaster, 50,000 people have yet to return to their homes, but the dream of going back endures

Okuma, on Japan's east coast, used to host a busy community of 10,500 people. But today the houses stand empty.

The town is empty because it is one of the closest to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station and - seven years after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a triple meltdown - it remains under evacuation orders with decontamination still not finished.

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