'Nervous and rushed': Massive Fukushima plant cleanup exposes workers to high radiation and stress

Bystanders pray at 2:46 p.m., March 11, 2025, in Tokyo, as Japan marked the 14th anniversary of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that devastated the northeastern coast. Employees of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings take AP journalists to the area under the Unit 5 reactor pressure vessel, which survived the 2011 tsunami, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Futaba town, Japan, Feb. 20, 2025. The Unit 3 reactor covered with protective housing at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), is seen in Okuma town, Japan, Feb. 20, 2025. This handout taken on Feb. 28, 2024 and released by TEPCO shows a drone landing during the 'primary containment vessel internal investigation' of Unit 1 at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture. (TEPCO/AFP)

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 years ago Tuesday.