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Sunflowers Melt Fukushima’s Nuclear “Snow”

Source: Reuters

The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami severely damaged Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Read this article about how local residents are planting sunflowers not only to help absorb radiation leaked from the damaged reactors but also to bring hope to local residents.

This entry was posted in A Matter of Life or Death and tagged Culture & Society, Health & Medicine, Science & Nature on December 2, 2013 by .

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