Fukushima Evacuations

As citizens one of our jobs is to attempt to decipher the meaning of information passed onto us from the government. Since all politicians base their policy activity on electability, political persuasion, religious persuasion, personal gain, and a host of other factors, all political information is partisan.

Cutting to the chase, if the Japanese government is telling its citizens to voluntarily evacuate the area within a 20 mile radius of Fukushima, interpret this to mean within a much larger radius and to do it last week and do it fast.

The list of environmental problems coming out of Fukushima is large. Drinking water, food, air, the ground, the fish and sea are all contaminated to some degree. Basically there is a new dead zone. There is no happy face to stamp on this thing.

CNN: Japan encourages voluntary evacuations near stricken nuclear plant

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said authorities are encouraging people living between 20 and 30 kilometers (12.5 and 19 miles) from the plant to leave the area voluntarily because of the challenges they "have faced in their daily lives."


Other nations, including the United States and England, have urged their citizens to stay 80 kilometers (50 miles) or more away...