Fukushima: Five Years After the Nuclear Disaster
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In one month, Japan is marking the fifth anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit on March 11, 2011 and left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing, turned coastal communities into wasteland and triggered a nuclear crisis.
A worker, wearing a protective suit and a mask, leaves a room with shelves storing helmets at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan on Feb. 10, 2016.
A worker, wearing a protective suit and a mask, leaves a room with shelves storing helmets at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan on Feb. 10, 2016.