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A year ago, a tsunami destroyed the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. The government is still trying to figure out how to clean up radioactive cesium in an area that is mostly mountainous and wooded.
It’s been a year since three nuclear reactors and radioactive fuel pools melted down at the Fukushima power plant in Japan. The disaster contaminated nearly ten percent of the island nation. Journalist Winifred Bird lives in Japan and tells host Bruce Gellerman about the efforts to decontaminate the vast area.