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  • Boys in the sea
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    Bathers' joy as Fukushima beach reopens Jump to media player The beach in Soma City, Japan, has opened to the public for the first time since the nuclear disaster in 2011.
    • 21 Jul
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  • Robots designed to work at the Fukushima nuclear plant
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    The robots helping to clear up Fukushima Jump to media player Click was given rare access to the Fukushima site to see how the decontamination work was progressing.
    • 18 Oct 17
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  • Wild boar in evacuated Fukushima, Japan
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    Wild boars take over evacuated Fukushima Jump to media player Hunters tackle an influx of wild boars in evacuated towns near the Japanese nuclear accident site.
    • 09 Mar 17
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  • Graphic display of radiation levels
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    Checking radiation levels in Fukushima Jump to media player Tourists are returning to the Fukushima area six years after the nuclear disaster.
    • 07 Mar 17
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  • Towns being rebuilt away from the coast
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    Japan tsunami rebuild continues Jump to media player As Japan marks the fifth anniversary of the disaster which left 18,000 dead or missing and washed whole towns away, the process of rebuilding continues for many.
    • 11 Mar 16
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  • Tomioka's only resident stands looking out to sea.
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    Nuclear fallout town's only resident Jump to media player A 56-year-old farmer is the only person who has stayed in the Japanese town of Tomioka after radiation seeped out of nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which was decimated by the 2011 tsunami.
    • 10 Mar 16
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  • An abandoned home within the radiation exclusion zone, in Fukushima.
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    Fukushima home now uninhabitable Jump to media player Rupert Wingfield-Hayes travels back into the Fukushima exclusion zone to find that nature has begun to reclaim what humans had to leave behind.
    • 10 Mar 16
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A beach in Soma City, Japan, has opened to the public for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011.

  • 21 Jul 2018
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