On March 11,2011, Japan was crippled by a catastrophic 9.0 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear meltdown as three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant facility suffered destroyed cooling systems. Anyone living within a 12-mile radius of the stricken atomic plant was forced to evacuate. A year later, the nearly 80,000 displaced residents in this "no-entry zone" are still prohibited from returning to their homes while the Japanese government carries out an unprecedented effort to decontaminate their properties.
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