Research center To Use Atomic-Bomb Studies To Rebuild Fukushima Communities

HIROSHIMA, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 17: The presidents of Nagasaki University, Hiroshima University and Fukushima Medical University sign the agreement to establish a joint research center on the impact of low-level radiation doses and related themes on February 17, 2016 in Hiroshima, Japan. Hiroshima University and Nagasaki University both have core facilities that have conducted decades-long studies on radiation. The two schools have dispatched researchers to the Fukushima Medical University since April 2011 for studies on the health effects of the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in March that year. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)