Residents of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, were allowed to visit their homes in the nuclear no-go zone for two hours Sunday.
Tamura was the third of nine municipalities in the radioactive danger zone allowed to carry out the visits since an exclusion zone with a 20-km radius was set up around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant on April 22.
According to Tamura officials, 130 people from 76 households in the western part of the city decided the visit was worth the risk to their health.
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