Within sight of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, American war photographer James Nachtwey photographs Japanese police searching on Ukedo beach for bodies of tsunami victims, within the evacuated, and now uninhabited 20km exclusion zone around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, in Namie, Japan, on Monday 27th February 2012..The exclusion zone used to be home to approximately 73,000 people, but all have been evacuated by the government and are now restricted from returning home due to high levels of radiation contamination from the explosions at the TEPCO owned Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, following the earthquake and tsunami of  March 11th 2011..Due to the towns and zone being uninhabited the police patrol to prevent crime and theft from unoccupied properties and businesses.
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