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| March 07, 2012
The Fallout: Japan’s radioactive zone frozen in time
Nearly a year after an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel journeys to a place still frozen in the moments after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck. Engel visits the exclusion zone surrounding Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Factories, homes, restaurants and farms remain as they were when people abandoned their homes and livelihoods for safety.