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

Nuclear winter in Fukushima, Prefecture: Snow covers a field in the extended nuclear evacuation zone that was left to grow wild the summer before and is not likely to be planted again for many years to come but nature and snow have rendered a deceptively tranquil scene, Iitate-mura, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. 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...
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Nuclear winter in Fukushima, Prefecture: Snow covers a field in the extended nuclear evacuation zone that was left to grow wild the summer before and is not likely to be planted again for many years to come but nature and snow have rendered a deceptively tranquil scene, Iitate-mura, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. 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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