Tsunami "Year Zero" Ends / Fukushima's 1st Nuclear Winter Begins

Nuclear winter in Fukushima, Prefecture: Barrier barring entry into Iitate-mura village buried in snow. Iitate-mura is in the heart of the expanded nuclear evacuation zone because of high wind-friven radioactive fall-out from explosions at the Fukushima Dai Ichi nuclear power plant and residents are not likely to return for years or maybe for decades. Iitate-mura was contaminated by wind-driven radioactive fall-out from the Fukushima Dai Ichi nuclear power plant. Iitate-mura sits in an...
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Nuclear winter in Fukushima, Prefecture: Barrier barring entry into Iitate-mura village buried in snow. Iitate-mura is in the heart of the expanded nuclear evacuation zone because of high wind-friven radioactive fall-out from explosions at the Fukushima Dai Ichi nuclear power plant and residents are not likely to return for years or maybe for decades. Iitate-mura was contaminated by wind-driven radioactive fall-out from the Fukushima Dai Ichi nuclear power plant. Iitate-mura sits in an area that annual ambient radiation rates are estimated to be over 20 millisieverts in most areas and others are at over 50 millisieverts annually, the latter of which may indicate that decontamination may take decades.
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