Fukushima already exceeds Three Mile Island (1979) in the ranking of nuclear disaster and the Japanese government began to encourage tens of thousands of residents to flee the region. Not only of the official evacuation zone of 20 km, but in remote villages up to 30 km of the plant. According to La Vanguardia yesterday was able to see while visiting an evacuation center at the Sports Budokan in Tokyo, thousands of people in towns located 30 to 40 km of the plant-like Futaba, Iwaki and Soma-Minam have already voted with their feet and have moved to the capital.
This despite the government's official policy remains that it is safe if the people of these villages to spend most of their time indoors. Refugees in Budokan-center specializing in martial arts arrived in convoy from Iwaki yesterday afternoon. Families with two or three children looking tired carpets used in judo and kung-fu as mattresses.
"It's very difficult for them and locals brought food, clothing, books," said Makoto Ono, metropolitan official responsible for managing the conversion sports lightning in a refugee camp accommodating up to 900 people. "Two days ago I was working as tax inspector," he said. While waiting for more people, the authorities are preparing sports arenas, convention centers such as Tokyo Big Sight and even a luxury hotel, the Grand Palace at Akasaka, will open its doors to refugees from April 1.
It is another proof of the remarkable ability of Japanese logistics. But the worrying degree of improvisation that characterized the government's response to this crisis. Radioactivity levels well above what was expected in the immediate vicinity of the plant have forced a change. Yesterday it was learned that water had caused radiation burns two workers was 10,000 times more radioactive than the water in a reactor under normal circumstances.
Moreover, the government advice to stay at home do not take into account the fear of trabajadoros distribution companies. They have refused to enter into villages near the plant, which have been cut-off. The managers of refugee centers in Tokyo insist they are all temporary accommodation.
"We close in mid-April, but in any case, everyone wants to go home when this is over," said Ono. It can be a very long wait. The contamination of land in the region, with levels of carcinogenic isotope cesium 137, which has a half life of 30 years is comparable with Chernobyl, according to Tetsuji Imanaka, Research Institute of reactors in Osaka.
According to data published by the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, have been dumping more radioactive in this crisis that the Three Mile Island, when an explosion at a nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. This means that the accident is serious Fukushima and 6 in the international ranking radiological event (INES, according to its acronym in English).
Is assigned a 5 to Three Mile Island and 7 to Chernobyl. Shunichi Tanaka, former president of the Atomic Energy Commission, urged the Government, in an interview yesterday told The Japan Times, to publish comprehensive data on the radioactivity. "The government has not said in concrete terms why evacuation is necessary." 
This despite the government's official policy remains that it is safe if the people of these villages to spend most of their time indoors. Refugees in Budokan-center specializing in martial arts arrived in convoy from Iwaki yesterday afternoon. Families with two or three children looking tired carpets used in judo and kung-fu as mattresses.
"It's very difficult for them and locals brought food, clothing, books," said Makoto Ono, metropolitan official responsible for managing the conversion sports lightning in a refugee camp accommodating up to 900 people. "Two days ago I was working as tax inspector," he said. While waiting for more people, the authorities are preparing sports arenas, convention centers such as Tokyo Big Sight and even a luxury hotel, the Grand Palace at Akasaka, will open its doors to refugees from April 1.
It is another proof of the remarkable ability of Japanese logistics. But the worrying degree of improvisation that characterized the government's response to this crisis. Radioactivity levels well above what was expected in the immediate vicinity of the plant have forced a change. Yesterday it was learned that water had caused radiation burns two workers was 10,000 times more radioactive than the water in a reactor under normal circumstances.
Moreover, the government advice to stay at home do not take into account the fear of trabajadoros distribution companies. They have refused to enter into villages near the plant, which have been cut-off. The managers of refugee centers in Tokyo insist they are all temporary accommodation.
"We close in mid-April, but in any case, everyone wants to go home when this is over," said Ono. It can be a very long wait. The contamination of land in the region, with levels of carcinogenic isotope cesium 137, which has a half life of 30 years is comparable with Chernobyl, according to Tetsuji Imanaka, Research Institute of reactors in Osaka.
According to data published by the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, have been dumping more radioactive in this crisis that the Three Mile Island, when an explosion at a nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. This means that the accident is serious Fukushima and 6 in the international ranking radiological event (INES, according to its acronym in English).
Is assigned a 5 to Three Mile Island and 7 to Chernobyl. Shunichi Tanaka, former president of the Atomic Energy Commission, urged the Government, in an interview yesterday told The Japan Times, to publish comprehensive data on the radioactivity. "The government has not said in concrete terms why evacuation is necessary."
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