Nightmare without an end

Six years after disaster, Fukushima nuclear site still a toxic wasteland

TOKYO - When Hua Yi, a journalist from Xinhua, reached an area about five kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Thursday, his radiation detector would not stop vibrating and sounding alarms.

The machine indicated the radiation level was between 5 and 10 microsieverts per hour, which is more than 100 times that of Tokyo.