Can Japan's 'Recovery Olympics' heal Fukushima's nuclear scars?

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Can Japan's 'Recovery Olympics' heal Fukushima's nuclear scars?
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9 years after Fukushima became synonymous with nuclear disaster, the area will help kick off the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo

While the water has been treated to remove most of the most dangerous radioactive components, traces of tritium remain.

Sean Bonner and Azby Brown agreed. The pair run the environmental organization Safecast, which gives Geiger counters to Fukushima residents, as well as other people across Japan, to take radiation readings. It then collates the data and publishes them live on theirBrown described trust as a “nonrenewable resource.”

Okada, who now lives in Tsukuba, about 130 miles to the south, in Ibaragi Prefecture, added,"This is a manmade disaster.”

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