Who pays the price for Japan’s nuclear power?

Family members pray at the tombstone of a relative during a temporary return visit to the earthquake- and tsunami-damaged town of Okuma, the site of the Fukushima No
1 nuclear power plant, in February 2012
By Julia Gerster
Contributing writer
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Covered in a layer of dust, pencils and books lie scattered across the small desks of Kumamachi Elementary School in Okuma
One of these seats once belonged to Yuna Kimura
Fifteen years ago, on March 11, 2011, her class attended this school for the last time.On that afternoon, the magnitude 9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami struck off the country's northeastern coast
The massive tsunami devastated entire towns along the Pacific coastline and led to power outages and the failure of the cooling systems at the Fukushima No
As a result, three hydrogen explosions occurred, three reactor meltdowns followed and significant amounts of radioactive material were released
More than 20,000 people lost their lives as a result of the compound disaster
Among them were Yuna, her mother and her grandfather.

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