New pictures show Fukushima's recovery since 2011 nuclear disaster

New images reveal 's progress in restoring the radiation exclusion zone at the centre of the 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima.

Explorer Bob Thissen, 34, and a group of photographers visited the deserted exclusion zone towns of Namie, Futaba, Okuma and Tomioka in 2017 and again in 2022 to capture the progress made in restoring the Japanese coastline.

The magnitude 9.0 Tohoku on 11 March 2011 , which hit the eastern coast of Japan and sent three nuclear reactors into meltdown.

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