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Thousands of workers at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi are still working to contain the damage, five years after the country's worst nuclear disaster. Natasha Howitt reports.
Images of Fukushima's Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant before the visit of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, ahead of the discharge of treated water which is scheduled to begin by the end of summer. IMAGES
A view of the coastline near the Fukushima-Daiichi facility as Japan begins releasing wastewater from the crippled nuclear plant, in an operation it insists is safe but which has generated a fierce backlash from China. IMAGES
A small group of protesters gather near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant as the release of the wastewater into the Pacific Ocean is set to begin. IMAGES
Futaba, Mar 5 (EFE).- Time seems to have stopped a decade ago in the towns around Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. Most remain almost deserted despite the efforts of the authorities to decontaminate and revitalize the area since the nuclear disaster that was triggered by the massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.Newly paved but empty streets and brand-new train stations without a single passenger to be seen coexist in the restricted access area, where homes and businesses also remain abandoned.Traces of the accident that forced the evacuation of more than 160,000 people and the closure of entire towns due to radioactive contamination are still visible in the affected areas, where the Japanese government has invested multimillion-dollar sums to try and restore a sense of normalcy that still seems far away. (Camera: ANTONIO HERMOSÍN).SHOT LIST: STREETS IN THE TOWNS OF FUTABA, TOMIOKA, OKUMA AND NAMIE IN FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, JAPAN. SOUND BITES: YASUSHI NIITSUMA, OWNER OF AN IZAKAYA IN THE TOWN OF NAMIE IN FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, JAPAN. TRANSLATION: "It seems that they want to bring the torch route [through] to show the reconstruction, but the reconstruction has not even been completed.There is still a lot of garbage, there is a radioactive contamination deposit in Okuma, and also the water problem of the plant."
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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