Those who were at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant two years ago probably remember their fears after towering tsunami knocked out the reactor cooling systems, triggering three core meltdowns that threatened to harm the entire nation.
Today the crippled reactors require close monitoring but are in a controllable state — at least compared with the chaos of 2011.
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