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

Farmland inside the 20km (12.4 miles) nuclear no-entry zone which will not be planted this year because of fears of radioactive iodides and cesium being absorbed into crops. Power lines from the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant lead to mountains on the horizon where some of the worst of the nuclear fall out settled after the 12 March hydrogen explosion at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The nuclear exclusion zone has been extended outward to the northwest to include...
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Farmland inside the 20km (12.4 miles) nuclear no-entry zone which will not be planted this year because of fears of radioactive iodides and cesium being absorbed into crops. Power lines from the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant lead to mountains on the horizon where some of the worst of the nuclear fall out settled after the 12 March hydrogen explosion at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The nuclear exclusion zone has been extended outward to the northwest to include Iitatemura and Kawamata because of the high radioactivity and the evacuation of residents has begun. 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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