In this Sunday, March 3, 2013 photo, piles of radiation-contaminated waste sit in a field in the abandoned town of Iitate, outside the exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan. Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan’s northeastern Pacific coast, radioactive and chemical contamination remains a threat as clean-up projects face troubles with organized crime and mishandling. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) Read the full story here. |
In this Sunday, March 3, 2013 photo, a solar-powered radiation meter indicates radiation levels beside the sports ground of a school in the abandoned town of litate, outside the exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) |
In this Tuesday, March 5, 2013 photo, bags of radiation-contaminated waste sit in fields in Naraha, just outside the exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan. Decontamination efforts have begun in the town but resident have not been allowed to return for more than brief visits. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) |
In this Monday, March 4, 2013 photo, a sign warns people to say out of an area where piles of radiation-contaminated soil sit on the sports field of a school in the abandoned town of Yamakiya, outside the exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) |
In this Wednesday, March 6, 2013 photo, workers haul a bag of radiation-contaminated leaves during a cleanup operation in the abandoned town of Naraha, just outside the exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) |
In this Tuesday, March 5, 2013 photo, a worker walks past bags of radioactive waste at a temporary waste storage site in Naraha, just outside the exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) |
In this Friday, March 1, 2013 photo, radioactive waste packed in a protective storage bag is transported from a workplace to be placed at an adjacent temporary waste storage site in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture near the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) |
In this Tuesday, March 5, 2013 photo, bags of radiation-contaminated waste sit next to playground in the abandoned town of Naraha, just outside the exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan. Decontamination efforts have begun in the town but resident have not been allowed to return for more than brief visits. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) |
In this Monday, March 4, 2013 photo, piles of radiation-contaminated waste sit in a field outside Fukushima city, in northeast Japan.(AP Photo/Greg Baker) |
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