Futaba residents were evacuated to a number of shelters of the plant the catastrophic disaster that struck the Japan March 11 made hundreds of thousands of people homeless in a few minutes. Such was the power of the first earthquake of Earth and the tsunami that it spawned.But the evacuees of Futaba are different. Their houses were not damaged. They are still standing, but were abandoned when residents were told to flee an invisible danger - radiation.
Most believe that they would be only missing for a short period. Now it is increasingly clear that they will be able to go home for very long, if all this.
Futaba is nestled in the shadow of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station paralysed. The facility was the largest employer in the region, offering wealth of the city of job security to his people and the assurances that the plant would be safe.
Now, these promises ring hollow as operator of the nuclear plant, battles Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Company) in an attempt to stabilize the damaged four reactors.
More than 1,000 former residents of Futaba are now sheltering in a former secondary school, in Kazo city, a little more than 200 km (124 miles) of the power plant of Fukushima and well outside the evacuation area imposed by the Government.
The children were playing in a football field Sandy behind the main building, while volunteers offered massages to the elderly, as they sat in the Sun in early spring.
Colourful washing lines had been clinging to dry to make the most of change over time. It seemed almost festive.
But many people have relatives in the factory, working 24 hours a day to stem the crisis. Others are waiting to see if they could be recalled to help out.
But few people was ready to talk to strangers of Fukushima, such is the sensitivity surrounding the installation of these days.
Some of the men hung around the area of smoking were slightly more to come. Two contractors who were inside the plant when the earthquake hit describes the violent shaking and turbine room to fill with dust.
Shizuo Suzuki said that he would not return to work in the Fukushima Daiichi plantThey told the BBC that they return voluntarily work if they were necessary. But they did not want their faces before the camera, or their recorded voice.
Shizuo Suzuki, however, has doubts and was willing to express them publicly. He retired from his work at the Fukushima Daiichi plant six years ago.
He has been involved in the discharge of wastewater from the facility and lived in Futaba more than 40 years.
He said even before the plant was built all "we've heard was security - absolute security,". "Men working there now are probably because it's their job."
"But they are in a dangerous place where there would be no ordinary people." If it was me, I would not do so. For the sake of the country, I would decline. ?
On the site, the work continues. Men in their white suits and masks have been hailed in the local media as the hero, sacrificing their own well-being for the good of the nation.
But Hiro Hasegawa, head of cooperative communications for Tepco, said they were just professionals doing their work.
"We should say that we are proud of them", he said in an interview with the BBC. "About 80-90% of them are employees Tepco."
TEPCO said the men who work to make the situation at the plant under control had a difficult period"We are not forcing to work." Some people call their hero. We do not believe. They do what they should do as Tepco employees. ?
But Mr. Hasegawa has acknowledged that the men had a "difficult time" in a "difficult situation".
The hours they work depends on the exposed to radiation doses. And when they are forced to withdraw from their base camp, the conditions are far from easy.
There is not much room to sleep and food was a problem, although Mr. Hasegawa said which is now treated in an attempt to "contribute to the motivation."
They must find a way of keeping workers go and, in all likelihood, find reinforcements, as the crisis drags on.
Officials say that it will be several months until the situation at Fukushima Daiichi is stable. Months of dangerous work. Months of concern for parents and friends.
At the end of all this, the new heroes of the nation will return to their families. But they are never able to return.
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