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Rescuers risk radiation to save Fukushima dogs

Dog-lovers brave Fukushima nuclear danger zone to save abandoned pets  | Mail Online, By Daily Mail Reporter 14th April 2011 Rescuers have been risking their lives in the nuclear swamp around tsunami-hit Japan’s stricken power plant – to save abandoned dogs.Thousands of animals have starved to death or been abandoned by their owners after the earthquake and tsunami shattered Japan on March 11.

A 20km exclusion zone was put in place around the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant as deadly radiation spilled into the atmosphere…..In the early hours of Sunday morning, seven volunteers left Tokyo and drove over broken roads and past demolished houses to meet three other volunteers in the ghost town which Minami Soma has become. Some had prepared radiation suits and others wore simple vinyl raincoats…..Japan nuclear crisis: Dog-lovers brave Fukushima danger zone to save abandoned pets | Mail Online

April 15, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | - Fukushima 2011