Fukushima nuclear plant decommissioning draws attention of local businesses Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
An exhaust stack (center) for the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is dismantled in August 2019. | KYODO
Jiji Mar 3, 2021
Fukushima – Work to decommission the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in the Tohoku region is drawing keen attention from local businesses aiming to revive the regional economy, which has been hit hard by the nuclear meltdowns seen 10 years ago.
Initially, major heavy machinery-makers and general contractors mainly engaged in the decommissioning work at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holding Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 plant, which experienced a triple meltdown after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
nuclear wasteland. the 12-mile area around the fukushima power plant virtually untouched since disaster forced 80,000 people to evacuate. once thriving cities are now ghost towns. ransacked businesses still frozen in time. wild animals, one of the few signs of life. we ventured deep inside the government s exclusion zone to the town of futaba. a sign there reads nuclear power: the bright future of energy. inside earthquake-ravaged homes pets abandoned by their owners still cling to life. the united kennel club of japan s rescued more than 700 cats and dogs. but they say two dozen are dying from starvation every day. as we approach the fukushima plant, we re reminded of high radiation levels that remain. we are less than a mile outside the fukushima plant, and we ve seen the number on our geiger