Nuclear evacuees briefly return home

Nuclear evacuees briefly return home

NAMIE, Japan - Evacuees wearing radiation protection suits walk in their hometown of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, in devastation during their brief visit on May 26, 2011, with exhaust pipes of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant visible in the background (L, back). Many residents, who have been forced to evacuate due to radiation leaks from the power plant damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, lost their homes in the disaster.

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