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After a year, relatives allowed to search Fukushima zone for bodies

 video   http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/03/09/japans-crippled-fukushima-nuclear-plant-surrounded-by-desolate-no-mans-land/

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant surrounded by desolate no-man’s-land year after disaster By David Piper, March 09, 2012, FoxNews.com Nothing prepares you for entering Japan’s 12-mile exclusion zone around the crippled nuclear power plant at Fukushima. Everybody still has to wear radiation suits and face masks when entering, but within the area it is as if time has stood still.
In other areas along the coastline, a lot of the debris from the tsunamis that hit the shore a year ago, taking over 15,000 lives, has been removed and many homes have been rebuilt. But in the exclusion zone nearly everything has been left untouched….

. Walking on the beach near the plant, the scene was quite surreal or even apocalyptic.
Hundreds of people in full radiation suits and face masks were scouring the shore for the remains of the dead.
On Monday, it will have been a year since the disaster, but these people will not give up the search for the bodies of those still unaccounted for. Around 4,000 people officially still are missing, 49 from just this area of the coast, and this was their first chance to search this area
for the dead.  http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/03/09/japans-crippled-fukushima-nuclear-plant-surrounded-by-desolate-no-mans-land/#ixzz1okXpDEWG

March 10, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual