Japan: 70,000 more should evacuate after Fukushima: Watchdog

Times of India ^ | 05/24/11

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70,000 more should evacuate after Fukushima: Watchdog

AFP | May 24, 2011, 05.30pm IST

PARIS: Seventy thousand people living beyond the 20-kilometre no-go zone around Fukushima should be evacuated because of radioactivity deposited by the crippled nuclear plant, a watchdog said.

Updating its assessment of the March 11 disaster, France's Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) highlighted an area northwest of the plant that lies beyond the 20-km (12 mile) zone whose inhabitants have already been evacuated.

Radioactivity levels in this area range from several hundred becquerels per square metre to thousands or even several million bequerels per square metre, the IRSN report, issued late Monday, said.

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[Dengar01]

This story has completely gone off the radar. You wonder why?

[GonzoGOP]

This story has completely gone off the radar. You wonder why?

Because a third of the people say it is "no big deal", a third of the people say it is the end of the world and the other third are tired of being belittled by the other two thirds for not falling into lockstep with their agenda driven worldviews.

[dragnet2]

This story has completely gone off the radar. You wonder why?

I believe the Japanese government! It's not a problem!

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Watchdog: “Woof, woof, woof, arf arf woof, woof.”

Translation: “70,000 more people should evacuate, a watchdog said. “

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Watchdog: “Woof, woof, woof, arf arf woof, woof.”

Translation: “70,000 more people should evacuate, a watchdog said. “

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Watchdog: “Woof, woof, woof, arf arf woof, woof.”

Translation: “70,000 more people should evacuate, a watchdog said. “

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Watchdog: “Woof, woof, woof, arf arf woof, woof.”

Translation: “70,000 more people should evacuate, a watchdog said. “

[GonzoGOP]

I believe the Japanese government! It's not a problem!

So a cleanup likely to cost in the hundreds of billions of dollars isn't a problem for a country already hammered by a stagnant economy and a devastating tsunami? I guess your definition of a problem and mine are different.

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Watchdog: “Woof, woof, woof, arf arf woof, woof.”

Translation: “70,000 more people should evacuate, a watchdog said. “

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Watchdog: “Woof, woof, woof, arf arf woof, woof.”

Translation: “70,000 more people should evacuate, a watchdog said. “

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[dragnet2]

I guess your definition of a problem and mine are different.

Japan, it's not a problem!

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[mewykwistmas]

Isn’t this evacuation a few days late to say the least?

[GonzoGOP]

Wow you use exclamation points. That must make you the ultimate expert on everything. NOT! (see I can use them too.)

[dragnet2]

We’re actually planing on purchasing a small home with ocean frontage on the central east coast of Japan. But it’s safe, about 50 miles north of Fukushima. The realtor assured us there was no problem at all.

[GonzoGOP]

Again my point was not about safety, it was about economic cost of cleanup. For example the floods on the Mississippi have had relatively few fatalities. But it has been an economic disaster. Likewise the Fukushima power plant hasn't killed anyone since the crane fell on the workers during the earthquake. But it is going to be monstrously expensive to clean up. And every time the evacuation zone goes up so do the relocation and cleanup costs.

Remember Japan was in worse financial shape that the US before the Tsunami and Fukushima. The damage, both human and financial, from the Tsunami would have rattled even a healthy economy. What Japan desperately didn't need after that was a multi billion dollar distraction cleaning up a leaking nuclear power plant. Unfortunately that is exactly what they have. And they don't have the choice of either cleaning up the plant or repairing the Tsunami damage. They have to do both at once, at the same time as they lost almost a months tax revenue due to shut down business. All of that leads to more debt. And it is the crushing level of debt that will bring them down, not the tsunami or Fukushima.

Given time and resources (money) the Japanese could work their way out of any disaster. As you obviously know they are an amazing and highly resilient people. But thanks to their government's poor fiscal discipline before the disaster they are now short of both.

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OK Mr. gonzoGOP...

lol

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"The realtor assured us there was no problem at all. "

Hey...what else could you want?