Nuclear evacuees briefly return home

Nuclear evacuees briefly return home

NAMIE, Japan - Evacuees wearing radiation protection suits search for their belongings in an area where their house once stood in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, during their brief visit home on May 26, 2011, with exhaust pipes of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant visible in the background (C, back). The residents were forced to evacuate due to radiation leaks from the power plant.

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