Foreign Governments Evacuating Citizens From Tokyo

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Foreign Governments Evacuating Citizens From Tokyo

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With U.S. nuclear and energy officials offering dire assessments of Japan’s nuclear disaster, the state department expanded the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi plant to 50 miles, four times that ordered by the Japanese government. France, Britain, Australia and Turkey have all ordered evacuations of Tokyo or warned against travel to the region.

BBC:

Greg Jaczko, chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), said attempts to cool reactors with sea water and prevent them from melting down appeared to be failing.

[...] US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said that the situation at the plant appears to be more serious than the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania in 1979.

The US state department has urged Americans living within 80km (50 miles) of Fukushima Daiichi, which lies 220km from Tokyo, to leave the area—a much wider exclusion zone than the 20km advised by the Japanese government.

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By California Repossession Attorney, March 17, 2011 at 12:35 pm Link to this comment
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The situation seems to get worse in Japan

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By TDoff, March 17, 2011 at 12:33 pm Link to this comment

What right do France, Britain, Australia and Turkey have to order the evacuation of Tokyo? What are they doing, going door-to-door and telling people to get out of their homes? And aren’t at least some of the Tokyo citizens resisting?

I’ll bet when the Japanese government finds out about this, they’ll be bummed-out, maybe even consider it an act of war, and will probably retaliate by authorizing TEPCO to build nuclear reactors in France, Britain, Australia and Turkey, in addition to the ones they have planned for the US.

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By Jim Yell, March 17, 2011 at 9:11 am Link to this comment
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I feel a great deal of grief for the Japanese People. They have been very successful since WWII and allowed a tech gamble that is proving to be a poor choice. I am disquieted for ourselves in that we have people trying to bully us into making the same mistake.

I knew that this unfolding disaster would be the likely outcome and why? Because, history and even current events have shown that governments first response are always to lie in hopes the danger will pass, without them having to acknowledge their failures to regulate dangerous activities and with making bad descisions, and poor resonse.

At this late date in this country we are still waiting for real response to just economic mis-behavior that was funded and encouraged by high level executives in our financial institutions and except for giving them a reward for crashing our economy, nothing has been done.

If we can not regulate properly such simple situations what chance do any of us have when trying to regulate the complicated tech needed for even the pretense of safe nuclear electric production? Ouch!

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By NikeLegend, March 17, 2011 at 9:03 am Link to this comment

This whole disaster is a lot worse than they are telling us. They are telling people within a 20-mile radius to stay inside their homes. Radiation will get inside no matter how hard you try to seal up your house. A lot of cancer will be showing up in this region in the years to come.

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By PatrickHenry, March 17, 2011 at 5:04 am Link to this comment

Send in the robots.

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By Napolean DoneHisPart, March 16, 2011 at 11:33 pm Link to this comment

Whomever would be at the helm of this country should DEMAND that all nuclear facilities be systematically shut down starting immediately ( or have a horizon time-line of no more than 180 days ) and the implementation of solar, wind, and all other alternative types of energy be brought enforce to replace the dangerous and extinction-able capabilities these unstable creations of man have.

Obama should be the voice of this, since he does sit in that office… but he or another would quickly be called an obvious dictator / tyrant / whatever… but we must ask ourselves:

Is the risk worth the juice?

Is what we are witnessing worth NOT looking forward into the future of what clean technology has to offer?

Clean and not dangerous technology?

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