Hundreds of toxic wild boars have been roaming across northern Japan, where the meltdown of the Fukushima<br />nuclear plant six years ago forced thousands of residents to desert their homes, pets and livestock.<br />And in a government survey last year, more than half of Fukushima’s former residents said they wouldn’t return, citing fears over radiation<br />and the safety of the nuclear plant, which will take 40 years to dismantle.<br />The local Fukushima government recently published a guidebook of suggestions to help officials tackle<br />the wild boar problem, including building special traps and using drones to ward off the animals.<br />A version of this article appears in print on March 10, 2017, on Page A4 of the New York edition with<br />the headline: Six Years After the Fukushima Disaster, a New Danger Looms: Radioactive Boars.<br />Radioactive Boars in Fukushima Thwart Residents’ Plans to Return Home -<br />By KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURAMARCH 9, 2017<br />They descend on towns and villages, plundering crops and rampaging through homes.
