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In this March 24, 2011 file photo, a young evacuee is screened at a shelter for leaked radiation from the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima, northeast of Tokyo. “Standing in line day after day to be scanned for any levels of radiation was nerve-racking. The long lines at relief centers of displaced residents – mothers with crying children, fathers and the elderly – all waiting and hoping not to be the one detected by the alarm. Every few dozen people, a loud alarm chirp was heard by everyone, causing everyone to stop and look who was it. These people with the high radiation levels were then taken from the line to be further tested. It had the collective effect on everyone that this could happen to any of us. You might have been high above the water levels but straight in the radiation wind. These were not victims marked by broken bones and cut flesh but by the anxiety from an invisible threat of radiation and the deep fears of cancers that could follow”. – Wally Santana, AP photographer. (Photo by Wally Santana/AP Photo)
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