MATSUMOTO, Japan (AP) - The 12-year-old girl didn't want to leave her
younger brother, and her grandparents didn't want her to go away. But a
family living near the "no-go zone" surrounding Japan's destroyed
nuclear plant has other things to consider.
Yukie Hashimoto and her husband sent their daughter
300 kilometers (200 miles) away to the picturesque ski town of
Matsumoto, where the mayor offered to take in and educate young people
living in the shadow of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
Research has not shown the children to be in clear
danger from exposure to low-dose radiation, but mistrust of the
authorities remains high. The Hashimoto family, and the parents of seven
other children, accepted the offer.
"I didn't really believe things are as safe as the
government is telling us," said Hashimoto, who lives in Koriyama, about
30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the 20-kilometer no-go zone. "We made
our decision with her future, 10 years and 20 years later, in mind."
The eight students - seven in junior high school
and one in elementary school - began their new lives this month, with
the beginning of Japan's school year. They live in a rented house with
bunk beds and live-in caretakers.
The project is the brainchild of Mayor Akira
Sugenoya, a medical doctor who performed more than 100 thyroid-cancer
surgeries in neighboring Belarus after the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.
Data: 07.04.2014
Fonte: www.whig.com
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