Nuclear evacuees briefly home

Nuclear evacuees briefly home

KAWAUCHI, Japan - Radiation levels are checked on photos taken back by evacuees from the village of Kawauchi, Fukushima Prefecture, near the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear plant on May 10, 2011. A group of evacuees were allowed to briefly return to their homes within a no-entry zone to retrieve belongings.

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