Wider Image: A-bomb Survivors’ Fukushima Doubts
Atsushi Hoshino, a 87-year-old Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor, former college professor and ex-president of Fukushima University, speaks next to a radiation monitoring post measuring a radiation level of 0.123 microsievert per hour, at a park near his home in Fukushima, Japan, July 30, 2015. Hoshino was a high school student deployed to a munitions factory when a U.S. bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, 70 years ago this month, figure among a majority of Japanese opposing a plan to reboot reactors taken offline after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. On March 11, 2011, a massive tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeast Japan, triggering meltdowns, spewing radiation and forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee their homes, making it the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. The Sendai nuclear power station is expected to resume operations on August 10, the first to do so since Japan's nuclear plants were shuttered following the Fukushima disaster. Picture taken July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai PICTURE 10 OF 12 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "A-BOMB SURVIVORS' FUKUSHIMA DOUBTS"SEARCH "HANAI ATOMIC" FOR ALL PICTURES