FUKUSHIMA, Japan — When night falls inside the 12-mile evacuation zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, a few homes in the otherwise dark, deserted landscape begin to glow.
On closer inspection, the glow turns out to be from light switches that were left on when owners hurried from their homes amid power outages and the deteriorating situation at the nearby reactors.
Continue reading at Japan: Inside the Fukushima disaster zone
A nuclear power plant in Byron, Illinois. Taken by photographer Joseph Pobereskin (http://pobereskin.com).
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The photograph in the sidebar, of a nuclear power plant in Byron, Illinois, is copyright photographer Joseph Pobereskin (http://pobereskin.com/)
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