This graffiti from March 2009 shows an adult and children in gas masks in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Eight years after Japan’s worst nuclear disaster, the government is not sure what to do with the contaminated water that remains, but its environment minister says dumping it into the ocean might be the only choice.

First published in the September 10, 2019, 10:14 p.m. edition

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