This is a school 50 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, in a city called Moriya.
A local citizens’ group recently carried out examinations on 85 children under the age of 18 and found out that 58 of them, or 70 percent had radioactive cesium in their urine samples.
The kind of cesium detected is a fission product formed in nuclear power plants.
Members of the group say there’s a high chance the cesium entered the children’s bodies after eating food contaminated with radioactive material.
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A nuclear power plant in Byron, Illinois. Taken by photographer Joseph Pobereskin (http://pobereskin.com).
The artwork in the header, titled "JAPAN:Nuclear Power Plant," is copyright artist Tomiyama Taeko.
The photograph in the sidebar, of a nuclear power plant in Byron, Illinois, is copyright photographer Joseph Pobereskin (http://pobereskin.com/)
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