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 The government ordered to set an exclusion zone for the 20 kilometer (12 mile) radius around the power plant after it was crippled by a 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)TOMIOKA, Japan (AP) Part of the town of Tomioka, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, is still a no go zone 10 years after a meltdown sent radioactive fallout over the area.The no go zone is about 12% of the town, but was home to about one third of Tomioka's population of 16,000. It remains closed after the rest of the town in northeastern Japan was reopened in 2017.Only those with official permission from the town office can enter the area for a daytime visit.Part of the area, called Yonomori, used to be a commercial center dotted with shops, houses, a 7 Eleven convenience store and a popular regional supermarket chain called York Benimaru.The area also includes Yonomori Park, surrounded by streets lined with cherry trees, where townspeople use