Nuclear Boy - Efficient Way to Explain Things to Kids?

Recently there was a nuclear plant problem in Japan. Through all the sadness and grief, how would you explain the problem to kids? Recently I came across this video that explains about the nuclear plant problem in Japan.

This video is very intriguing to me, the artist uses various emotions to portray an amusing animation. Instead of using difficult or harsh words that might cause the child to become confused or scared, the artist tells a story by personifying the problem. The story uses metaphors as it tells it's story to little kids. A nuclear plant becomes a boy and toxic chemicals become poop and toxic air becomes fart. This video is quite cute and does it job by explaining the situation to little kids. The animation also has simple drawings and takes the different shapes of nuclear plants to differentiate each character in the story. The animation does not need to be fancy to appeal to children because the main point is to explain about the nuclear problem. Also what makes the story interesting is the narrator's voice and how he portrays the character.

However this story is just a stretched/soft version of the truth. Whether the child truly understands the danger or not is questionable from child to child. Sometimes the whole truth can be better than a stretched out one.