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“They also told me that I wouldn’t get sick for 30 or 40 years. I’ll most likely be dead by then anyway, so I couldn’t care less.” — 53-year-old Naoto Matsumura, the only person who never left the extremely radioactive town of Tomioka, which is six miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.