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By Isabel Reynolds, Bloomberg
14 Mar 2021
Namie residents walk their dog by the Ukedo river in Namie, Japan. Fukushima is still struggling to recover. Photographer: Toru Hanai/Bloomberg
Laid waste by a nuclear disaster a decade ago, Japanâs Fukushima is still struggling to recover, even as the government tries to bring people and jobs back to former ghost towns by pouring in billions of dollars to decontaminate and rebuild.
But reconstruction efforts from the mundane supermarkets and transport infrastructure to a cutting-edge hydrogen energy plant have yet to entice more than a small fraction of the former population to return.
Ghost towns of Fukushima remain empty after decadelong rebuild
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Ghost towns of Fukushima remain empty after decadelong rebuild
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Editor s note:
This story originally ran on March 4, 2018, and we re reposting it for the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster to give readers a sense of the technology being employed to fix this enormous problem, which continues today. To learn more about the ongoing cleanup efforts, read Japan s earlier this month.
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