Fukushima

It’s been three and a half years since the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, and clean-up is still going. The area is still too dangerous for residents to return, but an army of decontamination employees has created its own small economy in the area, keeping a small number of businesses alive.

Three years after the tsunami-induced meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, PBS NewsHour correspondent Miles O’Brien talks about the continuing contamination crisis, and the accident that caused him to lose his arm.Three years after the tsunami-induced meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, PBS NewsHour correspondent Miles O’Brien talks about the continuing contamination crisis, and the accident that caused him to lose his arm.

Three years after the triple meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, neither local communities nor the country’s economy have fully recovered. And one critic says Japan won’t be safe again until it’s made some fundamental changes in its culture.Three years after the triple meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, neither local communities nor the country’s economy have fully recovered. And one critic says Japan won’t be safe again until it’s made some fundamental changes in its culture.

Host Marco Werman speaks with Jeff Kingston of Temple University Japan about the status of the cleanup, what’s at stake for the government, and the government’s delicate relationship with TEPCO, the company that owns the plant.