Japan's nuclear refugees defy warnings and go home

Residents of towns surrounding a crippled nuclear plant are regularly returning home, an official said Saturday, defying health warnings as the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl drags on. Others never left, refusing to evacuate from the 20-kilometre (12-mile) zone around Fukushima Daiichi when the power plant began spewing harmful radioactive materials four weeks ago.

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