Contaminated Landscape in Tsushima

Radiation levels 52 to 238 times above normal. The normal rate before the Fukushima nuclear disaster was 0.08 microsieverts an hour.

Traffic lights and street lanterns light the 114 road as it curves off towards the exclusion zone at Tsushima, a village nestled between mountains in a beautiful green valley in the district of Namie. After the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, winds blew radioactive contamination directly towards Namie for three days, exposing its citizens to high levels of radiation. No one was warned. Thousands of the village’s inhabitants have now been evacuated and are living in temporary homes in Nihonmatsu. Whether they will be able to return to their villages remains an open question.