After more than eight years as nuclear exiles, some have chosen to return to the small town of Okuma in Fukushima, Japan.
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Around 40% of the town’s land area has been cleaned up and the radiation levels lowered enough for people to return. So, are they coming home?
Read more and watch the video at Growing crops in the shadow of Fukushima
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A nuclear power plant in Byron, Illinois. Taken by photographer Joseph Pobereskin (http://pobereskin.com).
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While detecting high dose of radiation in the area, the reporter walks around without any protection, eats the leaves from the garden. What is this video for? Given the wide circulation of BBC, this is highly disturbing.