Over 300,000 evacuated from the nuclear exclusion zone

[bananas]

While trying to recover from this devastating earthquake, the Japanese government had to direct resources to evacuating over 300,000 people from their homes in the nuclear exclusion zone because they were in extreme danger. And yet some here have been so duped by outright lies from the nuclear industry that they still don't understand how serious this is. Let me give you a clue-by-four: Japan would not have evacuated those people if there was no cause for alarm.

Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/us-japan-quake-toll-idUSTRE72B1ZT20110312

Over 1,700 likely dead, missing in Japan quake: report
TOKYO | Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:52am EST

(Reuters) - More than 1,700 people are likely dead or missing following a massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan, Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday.

About 300,000 people have been evacuated from their homes and that number is likely to rise with the government increasing the size of an evacuation area around two nuclear power plants in Fukushima in northern Japan, Kyodo said.

Police accounts put the death toll at 637 and those missing at 653, but the total number is likely to be much bigger as 200-300 dead bodies were being transported in the city of Sendai and another 200 were being taken to gyms in other parts of Miyagi prefecture, Kyodo said.

(Reporting by Taiga Uranaka; Editing by Joseph Radford)

BBC:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=622475&mesg_id=623353

300,000 evacuated from 'exclusion' zone

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1427: More than 300,000 people have now been evacuated from homes in northern Japan and that number will rise as the government increases the exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Kyodo reports

[Raschel]

1. I saw an expert on TV who said this is very, very, serious and that the government should have

handed out iodine before this.

[madrchsod]

2. why would anyone think that nuke plants are safe on the ring of fire?

how many nuke plants on the west coast?

[GliderGuider]

3. +1 - That's the real question, isn't it?

That decision points to an unfortunate convergence of Japanese cultural hubris, human technological hubris, and Japan's absolute poverty in all other forms of energy.

The combination is deadly.