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Mission Impossible. What Future Fukushima?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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Across much of Fukushima's rolling green countryside they descend on homes like antibodies around a virus, men wielding low- tech tools against a very modern enemy: radiation. Power hoses, shovels and mechanical diggers are used to scour toxins that rained down from the sky nearly 31 months ago. The job is exhausting, expensive and, say some, doomed to failure.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 39 , September 2013 , e1
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