Japan left with no choice but to widen nuke evacuation zone

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AFP

About 4000 residents of Iidate-mura village and 1100 people in Kawamata-cho town, in the quake-hit northeast, began the phased relocations to public housing, hotels and other facilities in nearby cities.

Their communities are outside the 20km radius from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, officially designated as an area of forced evacuation due to health risks from the radiation seeping from the ageing and damaged plant.

The government told people in communities such as Iidate-mura they had to leave but authorities are unlikely to punish those who choose to stay.

''I am sure all of you have lived in Iidate-mura all your life and never moved,'' mayor Norio Kanno told a group of residents preparing to leave their homes.

Read more: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/japan-widens-nuke-evacuation-zone-but-unlikely-to-punish-those-who-stay/story-e6frf7lf-1226056432864

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An evacuee from Iitate village unloads blankets from a car on the arrival at a evacuation center, in Fukushima city. Picture: AP. Source: AP

[Tesha]

1. Nuclear power: Too cheap to meter and safe as mother's milk! (NT)

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Irish tales.

Some of the old Irish tales talk about how the end of the world occurs. Dead zones will widen, a nothingness will grow where life cannot be sustained.

[PatrynXX]

6. Might as well play Akira

or Ghost in the Shell. most Japanimation forsaw this.

[defendandprotect]

3. How sad for the Japanese people -- and for all of us -- Down with capitalism!!

Capitalism is a ridiculous "King-of-the-Hill" system --

its goal is to move a nation's wealth and natural resources into the hands of the few --

and it does that quite successfully.


Capitalism isn't about competition -- it's about killing the competition --


We have to stop judging everything by the yardstick of a dollar bill --


The dollar bill is simply a way to move power from legitimate represwentatives into

illegitimate hands.


There is no democracy without economic democracy -- and capitalism is the opposite of democracy.

[AndyTiedye]

5. Nukes are Too Dangerous Regardless of the Economic System

No capitalist corporations were involved in the building or the operation of Chernobyl.

Nukes are unsafe in any economic system.

[defendandprotect]

8. Agree -- however, it's corporate profit behind the MIC and the weaponry ---

and it's corporations -- TEPCO -- behind Fukushima --

PLUS a lot of political action which keeps this suicidal nonsense going --

The Mayor of Fukushima wanted to shut these plants down 5 years or more ago --

because they were aged and only built to withstand 7.0 earthquakes -- and the

seismic activity was increasing --



Here's some of the story on that --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x309897

[ixion]

4. "authorities are unlikely to punish those who choose to stay."

Gee, that's mighty swell of them, considering those who choose to stay are going to die, in all probability, poisoned by the incompetence and greed of these same 'authorities'.

[Dj13Francis]

7. from what I understand

pretty much all of northern Japan should be evacuated for about 600 years. And I wouldn't be happy with that stuff blowing on me were I living in Seattle either. In fact, living in Orlando I'm still not happy about it. We pretty much need to evacuate the planet to get away from this crap. Great.