Fukushima evacuation order lifted after eight years

Nearly a decade after nuclear reactor suffered meltdown, local residents free to return home

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A lone house sits on the scarred landscape, inside the exclusion zone, close to the devastated Fukushima plant
(Image credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

The Japanese government has lifted the mandatory evacuation order around parts of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, eight years after a massive earthquake caused a meltdown in three of its reactors.

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