Risking it to show nuke dangers


No-go area: Police have set up barriers such as this to restrict access across much of the Fukushima exclusion zone that is believed to still have significant levels of radiation five years after the nuclear disaster.

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian freelance photographer Keow Wee Loong says he sneaked into the Fukushima district in Japan last month to highlight the dangers of depending on nuclear power.

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 struck the Tohoku region, triggering a massive tsunami which resulted in a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

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