Children Don Masks, Hats in Fukushima as Radiation Looms

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-11/fukushima-students-wear-masks-as-radiation-looms.html

Students at the Shoyo Junior High School in Fukushima are wearing masks, caps and long-sleeved jerseys to attend classes as their exposure to radiation is on pace to equal annual limits for nuclear industry workers.

“Students are told not to go out to the school yard and we keep windows shut,” said Yukihide Sato, the vice principal at Shoyo Junior High in Date city, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) northwest from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear station. “Things are getting worse, but I don’t know what to do.”

Two months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami created Japan’s worst nuclear crisis since World War II, schools in Fukushima are waiting for stronger measures from the government to protect its youngest citizens. A parents group is petitioning Governor Yuhei Sato to evacuate more than 1,600 kindergartens, elementary and junior high schools which would affect about 300,000 children and teachers.

“The governor should take leadership,” said Seiichi Nakate, the 50-year-old head of the Network to Protect Fukushima Children from Radiation, a group comprising 250 parents. “Fukushima Prefecture is the only power that can protect our children from radiation exposure.” MORE AT LINK

but also horrific. Radiation cannot be stopped by wearing those things or just keeping windows shut. Contamination has already taken place. Yet, where will these kids go? Where can their families go? In Russia, there were places for citizens to move to far away form the Chernobyl site. The areas around Fukushima are limited by that factor. :cry:

but they have assets around 150+ billion

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