Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - The lobby of a hotel in the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture is crowded with people who engage in work at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on April 21, 2011. The facility has been used as a base for work to put the plant under control. The facility, approximately 20 kilometers south of the plant, was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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