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A lot of people to evacuate ...

August 7, 2014

Accident at Tokai nuke plant could force 520,000 to evacuate outside Ibaraki Pref.

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140807p2a00m0na015000c.html 

 

A serious nuclear accident at the Tokai No. 2 Power Station in Ibaraki Prefecture could result in about 520,000 people living within 30 kilometers of the plant taking shelter in other prefectures, according to a prefectural evacuation draft.


Some 960,000 people live within the urgent protective action planning zone (UPZ) within a 30 kilometer radius of the plant in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture. Of these, some 520,000 would likely take shelter in five neighboring prefectures, while the remaining 440,000 would evacuate to other areas within Ibaraki Prefecture, according to the draft released on June 6 by the Ibaraki Prefectural Government.


Cities, towns and villages are expected to devise concrete evacuation plans to respond to a serious nuclear accident, but the large number of evacuees is expected to make it difficult to formulate plans securing places for them to stay while avoiding confusion.


"Evacuation within the prefecture alone is impossible," Ibaraki Gov. Masaru Hashimoto said. "I want to have other prefectures accept people."


The UPZ spans 14 cities, towns and villages including the Ibaraki prefectural capital of Mito (268,750 people) and Hitachinaka (157,060 people). Under the prefectural government's draft, roughly 440,000 people would evacuate to areas in Ibaraki Prefecture outside the UPZ, while another 52,000 would evacuate to Fukushima, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama and Chiba prefectures. The prefectural government says that in the future, it will make arrangements with municipalities on the number of people who would evacuate to each of the five surrounding prefectures and how they would get there.


However, there remain many outstanding issues, such as where to place screening stations to remove radioactive materials from people's bodies.


"I get the impression that the prefectural government has just divided up places to evacuate people," commented Tokai village assembly member Kazumasa Aizawa. "Paper plans alone are meaningless."

August 07, 2014(Mainichi Japan)

 

 

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