EVENT: RETURN TO FUKUSHIMA Living in an ongoing catastrophe

NEIS Night with the Experts hosts Thomas Bass — writer, professor of English and journalism, and author of the book Return to Fukushima — Thursday, October 30, 2025, 7pm CT. Registration is required. Fourteen years after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, the site is an ongoing disaster that had forced 160,000 atomic refugees from their homes. Now forced to resettle in contaminated areas, Fukushima’s Argonauts of the Anthropocene are learning how to live with radioactivity in what Bass terms “A daycare center full of radiation maps and equipment for monitoring our contaminated Earth…Is this what our future looks like?” See Beyond Nuclear’s review of this revelatory book.