Thursday, April 21, 2011

Declared prohibited area around NPP

.- The evacuation radius of 20 kilometers in place around the troubled nuclear plant in Fukushima will be off limits, said Thursday the Prime Minister, Naoto Kan. The prime minister made the announcement during a visit to the region of the damaged city on March 11 by a magnitude 9 and the tsunami that followed, in northeastern Japan.

The ban, which should be paid the night of Thursday to Friday, seeks to effectively control the area. In the inspection of thousands of homes, police found more than 60 families still living there despite the inherent dangers of radiation. The plant operator, the group Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) estimates required about three months to begin to reduce the radioactivity and six to nine months to cool the reactors.

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