A Walkabout Inside and Around Fukushima's Nuclear No-Entry Zone / Now The Only Way In

Ocean cliffs in the 20 km (12.4 miles) no-entry zone, where high levels of radiation continue to be released by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant which has suffered a meltdown. Though these cliffs are high above the surf, the tsunami climbing up over this portion of the cliffs damaging buildings and carrying away cars above. Nomazawa, near Odaka, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of midnight 21 April 2011, the Japanese government declared the no-entry zone off-limits under the...
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Ocean cliffs in the 20 km (12.4 miles) no-entry zone, where high levels of radiation continue to be released by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant which has suffered a meltdown. Though these cliffs are high above the surf, the tsunami climbing up over this portion of the cliffs damaging buildings and carrying away cars above. Nomazawa, 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), which was exactly the risk necessary to take to make this photograph..
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