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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster - Epidemic of Ghosts

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On 11 March 2011, Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant experienced the worst disaster since Chernobyl. And its people...went through an epidemic of ghosts.

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