Some 30 Japanese children from Fukushima arrive in CzechRep

Prague, Aug 1 (CTK) - Some 30 children from the Japanese town of Namie that was exposed to radioactivity during last year's accident in the Fukushima nuclear power plant arrived for a two-week stay in the Oliva child health resort Wednesday.

The facility's director Zdenka Provaznikova said the 12 to 14 year old children will undergo various kind of water treatment, they will go swimming, do physical exercises, and ride horses and bicycles.

Sightseeing in Prague and surroundings has also been prepared for them, Provaznikova said.

Czech Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg promised aid to the children during his visit to Japan last year.

The cost of the aid is estimated at three million crowns.

Namie is situated about eight kilometres away from the nuclear power plant. Its inhabitants had to be evacuated after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

The town is now part of a closed zone and this will probably last for dozens of years.

"I have got used to the (new) life, but sometimes I feel sad," a boy said.

The Fukushima disaster has been the biggest since the nuclear accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986.

It was caused by a strong earthquake and tsunami up to 40 metres high. They elements claimed some 200,000 lives.

Up to 100,000 people had to be evacuated over a radiation leak.