Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Japan says will not expand the evacuation zone in Fukushima

Japan is planning to expand an evacuation zone around a damaged reactor at the moment, but this decision is not fixed, said on Monday a Japanese nuclear official in Vienna. The devastating earthquake and tsunamis that hit Japan three weeks ago caused serious damage in central Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power, forcing the government to create an evacuation zone of 20 kilometers around the site.

"For now we will not. But this does not mean that in future we (or not) change that," he told reporters Koichiro Nakamura, deputy director general of the Agency for Nuclear and Industrial Safety in Japan.

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