Hiroshima team decontaminates Fukushima boat

MINAMISOMA, Japan - A group of volunteers from Hiroshima City works to remove radioactive substances from a fishing boat in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 24, 2011. The group, formed in August, includes former nuclear power plant workers and survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing. It aims to return the vessel, swept to land by the March tsunami, to the sea.

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