Health checks on Fukushima residents

CHIBA, Japan - A demonstration is held for reporters at a facility of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in the city of Chiba on June 27, 2011, to show how health examinations including radioactive exposure measurement using whole-body counters are being conducted on residents of Fukushima Prefecture. The health checks began the same day for all of the prefecture's about 2 million residents following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. A man acting the part of an examinee in the demonstration, pictured in the background, is an employee of the institute. (Kyodo)

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