11/1/2011 Japanese MP drinks Fukushima water under pressure from journalists

Source: UK Guardian
Date: 11/1/2011
by: Justin McCurry

Yasuhiro Sonoda's hands shake as he drinks water collected from the plant to back up government claims of decontamination  Yasuhiro Sonoda drinks a glass of decontaminated water taken from puddles inside the buildings housing reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Photograph: Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images

It was a simple gulp of water, but one that Japan's government hopes will carry symbolic importance as it seeks to ease concern over decontamination efforts at the scene of the country's nuclear crisis.
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