Connect to share and comment Workers will take some 40 years to
complete the hazardous job of decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi
plant after the world’s worst nuclear accident in a quarter
century. FUKUSHIMA, Japan — The journey to Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant is littered with reminders of the havoc the
triple meltdown has wrought on the lives of tens of thousands of
people, now scattered across the prefecture and the rest of the
country. As Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) employees take a small
caravan of foreign journalists through a checkpoint and deep
inside the 12-mile evacuation zone, we see the physical scars
inflicted by an invisible, odorless enemy: entire villages lie
empty, left as they were when the order to evacuate came
through. There are no signs of human life, apart from passing
trucks carrying construction equipment and busloads of workers,
wrapped up in blue and white radiation suits and masks. Two
years after the 9.0 earthquake that triggered a devastating
tsunami here, homes, gas stat