On the other hand it might be an opportunity to prove that a nuclear disaster (even in an outdated reactor and the worst case scenario of the largest tsunami ev

On the other hand it might be an opportunity to prove that a nuclear disaster (even in an outdated reactor and the worst case scenario of the largest tsunami ever) isn't all that bad. Instead of leaving it alone, there's an active effort to clean up the damage completely, and it might just work. JR East has just announced that limited express train from Tokyo to Sendai that goes right through the exclusion zone (within 1.5 km of Fukushima Dai-Ichi) will be relaunched by the end of the year (currently it stops at Iwaki). The methods used to remove radiation around the railway are quite interesting (replacing the soil, walls of trees to prevent contamination by wind-blown particles etc.)