A silver lining was not what anyone expected to find in the radioactive cloud that fanned out from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant following March 11's devastating earthquake and tsunami. And yet, amid all the death and destruction, it was not long before hopes arose that not only would Japan be able to rebuild but that it also would reap monetary, fiscal and other economic benefits from the disaster, if at far too high a human cost.
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