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 will send a petition to Governor Yuhei Sato at 3 p.m. today, asking for the evacuation of more than 1,600 kindergartens, elementary and junior high schools affecting about 300,000 children and teachers.
Keep reading here: Fukushima Students Wear Masks as Radiation Looms – Bloomberg.
