Radiation Levels Force Additional Evacuations in Fukushima, Japan
- 13 years ago
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High radiation levels at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan are forcing more people to evacuate the area around the plant. The Japanese government has given the residents until the end of the month to leave.
Residents of some towns and villages outside the 18-mile nuclear exclusion zone around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are leaving the area.
They began evacuating on Sunday due to high radiation levels.
In Iitate village and parts of Kawamata town, around 8,000 residents have until the end of the month to leave.
[Norio Kanno, Iitate Mayor]:
"I'm sure most of you have lived in Iitate village all your lives and hadn't ever planned on moving. To those of you that I now have to ask to pack up and leave your homes, I am deeply sorry."
[Local Resident]:
"It's such an incredible shame to have to leave the house that I've lived in and grown used to. I can't even express it in words."
A Tokyo Electric Power Company worker confirmed that the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima plant is almost half full with radioactive water.
A giant barge is on its way from Yokohama harbor to provide temporary storage for the contaminated radioactive water. But the "Mega-float" is not expected to reach the plant sometime near the end of the month.
The 9.0 magnitude earthquake and ensuing 46 foot tsunami in March devastated Japan's northeastern coast, killing more than 15,000 people. Another 9,500 are still missing.
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High radiation levels at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan are forcing more people to evacuate the area around the plant. The Japanese government has given the residents until the end of the month to leave.
Residents of some towns and villages outside the 18-mile nuclear exclusion zone around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are leaving the area.
They began evacuating on Sunday due to high radiation levels.
In Iitate village and parts of Kawamata town, around 8,000 residents have until the end of the month to leave.
[Norio Kanno, Iitate Mayor]:
"I'm sure most of you have lived in Iitate village all your lives and hadn't ever planned on moving. To those of you that I now have to ask to pack up and leave your homes, I am deeply sorry."
[Local Resident]:
"It's such an incredible shame to have to leave the house that I've lived in and grown used to. I can't even express it in words."
A Tokyo Electric Power Company worker confirmed that the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima plant is almost half full with radioactive water.
A giant barge is on its way from Yokohama harbor to provide temporary storage for the contaminated radioactive water. But the "Mega-float" is not expected to reach the plant sometime near the end of the month.
The 9.0 magnitude earthquake and ensuing 46 foot tsunami in March devastated Japan's northeastern coast, killing more than 15,000 people. Another 9,500 are still missing.