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"The formal announcement, expected from the government in coming days, would be the first official recognition that the March accident could force the long-term depopulation of communities near the plant, an eventuality that scientists and some officials have been warning about for months."

A portrait photo is seen within the exclusion zone, about 6km away from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, 04/12/11. (photo: Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images)

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+3 # Regina 2011-08-25 21:55

Pride indeed goeth before a fall -- it took this long for the Japanese authorities to admit that the area affected by the radiation catastrophe was uninhabitable. Considering radiation deaths and radiation sickness, how many inhabitants were sacrificed to that mistaken and misplaced pride?

0 # KittatinyHawk 2011-08-26 14:47

We can all thank GE, NRC for that. they have been the mouth pieces and the problem since the beginning.
Most of those who have stayed this long should be prayed for. I hope the others got out with their children and are being monitored. This was a catastrophe of nature however, we could have helped from the first hour. NRC and GE decided not to, and personally that proves how very bad Nukes are. and those who are in charge

+5 # Valleyboy 2011-08-26 07:44

My country, New Zealand, has been Nuclear Free since the 80's following French Nuclear Testing at Muraroa Atoll. This brought massive protest and culminated in French secret service sinking the Rainbow Warrior, with a Dutch photographor on board, who drowned, in Auckland Harbour in 1980. Such a blatant act of international terrorism caused Kiwi's to question everything Nuclear and was a major factor driving us to Nuclear free status.
This, of course, didn't please the America military and we have been excluded from military aid and training since and until this very day!

For a comphrehensive debunking of the Aurguments for Nuclear Weapons I urge you to listen to our Prime Minister David Lange's arguments in the 1985 Oxford Union debate where he backed the proposition that "Nuclear Weapons are Morally Indefensable"
His side won the debate and recieved an extremely rare standing ovation.

http://publicaddress.net/great-new-zealand-argument/nuclear-weapons-are-morally-indefensible-1/

+1 # KittatinyHawk 2011-08-26 14:49

Unfortunately. we will be the demise of all who are free of. Nuclear fallout knows no distance, it will harm us all.

Right now it is harming all around Japan since March. Our fish are contaminated.
I pray for all we do not want to learn that we were given Natural Power, no we need to destroy .... no one cares that their own children could die from them. Can you imagine being so cruel....

0 # KittatinyHawk 2011-08-26 14:53

Thanks GE, NRC for doing such a splendid job from the first hour for all of mankind...remember Your Families are part of Man Kind they will reap what you sow!

I would like to see you at the Reactors here drinking the water...that safe Reactor.

Thanks RSN for this info. We all need to hope the families were out safely, We hope that Japan can monitor their Health. I wish that it never happened, and pray for you all

0 # KMC 2011-08-26 18:12

Just look at how millions of acres around Chernobyl will be heavily contaminated in the soil & water for the next 400+ years!!
Just as very few people can survive long-term in the Sahara or other desert, except for certain rare oases.
How many more nuclear radiation deserts will be formed on this planet Earth, our Home??

0 # bubba 2011-08-28 12:11

Axiom #1: Governments (corporations) will never put the people before the money.
Axiom #2: see axiom #1

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