Destroyed fish farm, Fukushima, Japan
Destroyed fish farm, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The fish farm was on the coast just south of the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The disaster, on 11th March 2011, was triggered after a magnitude earthquake occurred 130 kilometres off the east coast of Japan causing a devastating tsunami. The tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, leading to the meltdown of three of the nuclear reactors and a leak of radioactive material. It was one of the world's largest nuclear incidents since the Chernobyl disaster of April 1986. Photographed in March 2020.
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Photo credit: © ANDY CRUMP/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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