Author shares current reality: RETURN TO FUKUSHIMA
Posted by Bennington Banner on February 24, 2026
“Fukushima is an ongoing nuclear disaster. The four reactors that melted down and exploded in 2011 are still deadly, even to the robots that get burned up trying to explore them,” Bass says. “The Japanese government has been releasing radioactive cooling water into the Pacific Ocean since 2023. A hundred thousand people remain displaced from their homes, but grassroots efforts, propelled by the ingenuity of local farmers and entrepreneurs, citizen scientists, artists, and immigrants intrigued by starting new lives in the red zone, are reviving Fukushima.”