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Japan's Cut-Price Nuclear Cleanup

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill and
Justin McCurry
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During a visit to Fukushima Daiichi in September, Abe Shinzo told workers: “the future of Japan rests on your shoulders. I am counting on you.”

The prime minister's exhortation was directed at almost 6,000 technicians and engineers, truck drivers and builders who, almost three years after the plant suffered a triple meltdown, remain on the frontline of the world's most hazardous industrial cleanup.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 43 , October 2013, e2
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