A friend of ours has grandchildren who lived in a city very near to Tokyo. It is more than 200km far from exploded Fukushima nuke plants but the area is a hot spot, badly contaminated area with the radiation from Fukushima. One of them, a 13-year-old girl was found out to be exposed to radiation through the checking with whole body radiation counter. Her family worried about her health and decided to make her take refuge to her grandparents' place, our friend's house here. After half a year the radioactive material in her body diappeared. Young people are more affected with radiation, and so they need refuge from the contaminated places. The girl is a good example to prove the effectiveness of refuge.
The government and Tokyo Electoric Co. is doing nothing with the children's refuge. Fifty-nine children are already reported to suffer thyroid carcinoma, but the doctors who work for the government say it's not because of the radiation from Fukushima. Who can believe it? So many people are worrying about their children's exposure, but not many can move to other places.
Some people want to help children refuge from the radiation. Most of them voluntarily offer summer camp for the children. My family offer our log cabin to the families who want to spend their holidays in the unpoluted place. Children play outside not worrying exposure here. But those people who are available to take refuge , if only a short time, are not many. Most of the children go to school, play or do sports, live on the contaminated soil.
Actually our place is not clean even though it is far from Fukushima and is enclosed by high mountains. We are told mot to eat wild mashrooms and some berries, also not to burn the fallen leaves. We have a problem about ash from fire woods.
Once something wrong happens with the nuke plants, it's like opened Pandora's box.
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