Tokaimura residents return home after evacuation order lifted

Tokaimura residents return home after evacuation order lifted

TOKAIMURA, Japan - About 120 residents in the village of Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, some 120 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, living within 35--meter radius of a uranium processing plant, where Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred Sept. 28, return home from a community center Oct. 2, after the government lifted an evacuation order for them.

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