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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): The unending aftermath of the Japanese tsunami and the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Only recently have authorities acknowledged they misled area residents about the dangers.
John Sparks of Independent Television News got an inside look at the area around the nuclear plant.
JOHN SPARKS: This is the end of the road. Beyond a well-staffed checkpoint lies the 20-kilometer evacuation zone, a no-man's land that surrounds the Fukushima nuclear plant.
We were stopped, our papers checked. Then the police waved us through. We had won rare access to a world without people -- 80,000 residents were evacuated from this area when explosions rocked the nuclear facility in march. Vehicles were abandoned on the highway. Shops were shut, their shelves full of stock, and damage from the tsunami simply left to rust.
We are now 10 kilometers away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Our personal radiation monitor has begun to rise now, so we are going to head several kilometers back to a safer area.
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