Children of the Tsunami Page #2

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Seven-year-old Mutsumi shares

a two-room housing unit

with her sisters, Megumi and Manami.

THEY GIGGLE PLAYFULLY

Naomi's search for her daughter has

ended, six months after the tsunami.

Since the accident, evacuees from

the Fukushima exclusion zone

have been granted two brief

visits to their homes.

Visits are strictly limited to four hours.

Evacuees must enter and exit the exclusion

zone through a special facility.

Cars and belongings are screened

for radiation when they return.

In Minamisoma, the city

next to the exclusion zone,

school playgrounds are being decontaminated

by removing two inches of topsoil

and replacing it with clean sand.

The radioactive topsoil is then buried

in shallow pits under the playgrounds.

No-one knows when or if radiation

will cause physical illness

in the children of Fukushima.

But the psychological impact of the

disaster is being felt already.

Nine months after the tsunami,

the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear

plant was finally shut down.

But the 80,000 people

from the exclusion zone

are still waiting for

permission to go home.

CHILDREN SING:

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