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

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Interior ramsacked by the 11 March tsunami remains untouched because it sits inside the 20km (12.4 miles) nuclear no-entry zone, hobbling the ability of authorities to conduct clean up operations because of fears of radioactivity. 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..
Interior ramsacked by the 11 March tsunami remains untouched because it sits inside the 20km (12.4 miles) nuclear no-entry zone, hobbling the ability of authorities to conduct clean up operations because of fears of radioactivity. 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...
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