Inside Fukushima Daiichi: NHK's rare look at the reactors | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
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NHK World's Yoshikawa Ayano got a rare look inside the post-meltdown Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, to see the state of decommissioning.

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