6 Months into Japan's Year Zero: Return to Fukushima's Nuke No-Entry Zone

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Evidence of looting of a house inside the 20 km (12.4 miles) nuclear exclusion zone. The police have intensified patrols but the area inside the zone is just too vast to patrol effectively and prolonged exposure to radiation, of course, is harmful to their health. Near Odaka, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of midnight 21 April 2011, the Japanese government declared the no-entry zone off-limits under the Disaster Countermeasures Basic Law which gives the police the power to detain anyone entering the zone for up to 30 days and impose a fine of up 100,000 JPY (US$1,200).
Evidence of looting of a house inside the 20 km (12.4 miles) nuclear exclusion zone. The police have intensified patrols but the area inside the zone is just too vast to patrol effectively and prolonged exposure to radiation, of course, is harmful to their health. Near Odaka, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of midnight 21 April 2011, the Japanese government declared the no-entry zone off-limits under the Disaster Countermeasures Basic Law which gives the police the power to detain anyone...
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