Japan: Radiation still high, evacuation zone extended - Xinhua

(Beijing, April 23 Xinhuanet)-more people live in the vicinity of damaged nuclear plant, Fukushima's must next month to evacuate their homes. The decision comes after experts warned that over a large area of the levels of emissions would remain dangerous high.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano confirmed that five cities outside of the existing 20 km exclusion zone in the zone evacuation due to the radiation risks involved.

Yukio Edano, Japanese Cabinet Chief Secretary, said "There is a chance that the accumulation of radiation exposure in the area over a year is exceeded 20 millisieverts." "Therefore we have called zone the area fixed evacuation"

The announcement is a day after the Government explained the exclusion zone 20 kilometres a no go area.

Before the order went into effect, residents drove to again deserted hometown in their what I have and well access they could.

People, that the zone type now face fines of up to 12 - hundred dollars, or possible imprisonment for up to 30 days.

Tokyo electric power company President, Masataka Shimizu, visited now an evacuation Center for the first time since the disaster struck.

Few evacuated in the middle of her voice, which him most raised, but did not shy away, him a piece of their mind.

Masataka Shimizu, President, tOKYO electric power company, said, "I am very aware, today, that the relationship and the trust we build with native has completely collapsed." "It is therefore very important, even if it takes a long time now rebuild find ways to get this confidence."

TEPCO is ignoring warnings about the risk one Quake and tsunami striking the plant, and respond poorly to last month's disaster been accused.

The company delivered to stabilize a six to nine - month time frame for the four worst-affected reactors.

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Flood threat prompt evacuation of First Nation

A flood threat prompted the evacuation of the First Nation of Roseau River, 100 kilometres south of Winnipeg.

Considering to move approximately 850 people. Approximately 170 had left Saturday afternoon, while the rest were to leave Sunday and Monday.

Coordinator of flood Howard Nelson said the band Council has determined the reserve can be cut at any time. It is concerned in that its permanent dike could violate the community of the floods in as little as 15 minutes.

"According to the levels of the water we were do, us will probably lose our remaining access on the side is, so we called a complete evacuation," he said.

Throughout the province, more than 1,600 people left their homes due to flooding or the threat of flooding. Many evacuees are residents of First Nations.

The Red River and Assiniboine mouse took their banks in some places. Provincial officials say more than 600 roads are closed and States of emergency in 33 municipalities.

The intensification of the fight against flooding along the Souris River downstream of Melita, who is currently in crest.

Flood provincial officials say the city mouse, Souris River and intersecting Plum Creek are likely to peak at the same time, which could be tomorrow. That would lead to water levels similar to the record breaking flooding of 1976.

On Saturday, three houses along Plum Creek have been sandbagged, and more tube dikes and Hesco barriers have been implemented.

Near the PAS, ice jams on the Carrot River, threatening homes. about 30 were sandbagged the dam of Bracken.

South of Winnipeg, officials have said, there are a handful of precautionary evacuations in the rural municipality of Morris. Some residents of Morris stay in hotels or with relatives this weekend because the 75 Highway, the main road in the city, is completely faded, leaving some inaccessible houses.

Houses in the town are protected by an Earth Bank, but the surrounding fields are now massive pools of water.

The dam is also causing headaches for truckers in this region of southern Manitoba who are striving to achieve the United States. They have to take 100 km of twists to reach the border.

The flooding also means that the churches across the Prairies will likely have less faithful Easter Sunday.

The Reverend Mary Gavin of the Anglican Church of St. John Fort said that water rising in the Valley of the river called means parishioners Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, may not provide services on Sunday.

Ron Cox, Mayor of the nearby resort village of B-Say-Tah on the shores of Lake echo, said he missed the Friday service, because it was simply too worn uplift of sand bags every day and it provides may thus Miss Sunday services.

On the Echo Lake water levels have increased during the week, and Saskatchewan Watershed Authority, said levels on the river called are still dating.

Regina, workers of the city continued to deal with the flood of Wascana Creek where a body was drawn from a strong current Friday afternoon. Police have released few details coincide with the discovery, only say that the body was male and that the coroner was investigating.

The River Basin Authority said that it considers that the Creek could be almost peaked Saturday or Sunday.

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Nuclear evacuation: is U.S. prepared?

More than 20 million people living within 50 miles of the Indian point energy Center in Buchanan, New York.Dozens of U.S. cities with more than 100,000 people are required for 50 miles of a nuclear PlantNRC evacuation plan for areas within 10 miles of a nuclear PlantBut say FBI agents, if problem was similar to Fukushima in United States, she wants 50 miles of EvacuationWestchester County, New York, official: "we should to return to the drawing board"

(CNN) - when a serious nuclear accident in the United States should be done, we would be able to evacuate security? This issue now seems more than academic and all too realistic, like the Japanese, the release of lethal radiation from which try to limit Fukushima Daiichi crippled nuclear power plant.

The chances of an accident are extremely remote, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but in terms of the Japanese accident, that possibility must be taken into account.

It is a particularly apt problem for residents in the vicinity of a nuclear power plant. Millions do. There are 25 nuclear reactors in the United States is located within of 25 miles of the cities with a population of at least 100,000 people. A further 98 cities of this size are 50 miles or closer to a nuclear power plant. (To see how far you live from nuclear facilities, click here.)

City centres in the vicinity of nuclear reactors include: Charlotte, North Carolina, 15 miles from the McGuire plant; Rochester, New York, 17 miles from the plant Ginna; Omaha, Nebraska, 18 km from the Fort Calhoun reactor; and Miami, 25 km from Turkey point.

Close to the largest population Center of the country is Entergy's Indian point energy Center in Buchanan, New York. Two reactors work about 40 km from the borders of New York City and about 35 km from Midtown Manhattan. About 310,000 people living within 10 miles of the plant; more than 20 million lives within 50 miles of it.

"There is no way that was able to evacuate 21 million people within a 50 mile radius," says Republic Nita Lowey, D - New York.

Some residents in the vicinity of Indian point are especially worried she could suffer health consequences of an accident.

"I don't think that we can evacuate enough," said Michael Crawford, a resident of Peekskill, New York, New York, only two miles from the power plant. "Everyone is scared to come, and you will leave the people at the same time of the panic."

Westchester County, where the plant is located, has plans to evacuate a 10-mile radius around Indian point, detailed how the nuclear regulatory Commission for all such facilities is required. Westchester's plan includes not routing, qist schoolchildren on security and reception areas outside the 10-mile zone. The exodus would occur in gradually, with which the nuclear power plant first leave to the next.

"When we plan our evacuations, the evacuation can be first downwind span for the people in a two mile ring and a five-mile." If conditions worsen and we need more people to move and then we in a five mile ring and a 10 miles downwind can move span, ", said Tony Sutton, Commissioner of Westchester County emergency services." The county would take forecasts, about nine and a half hours for the 310,000 inhabitants, the 10-mile zone to leave.

Drills keep Westchester officials regularly to an underground facility, where practice they respond to different crisis scenarios. The Federal Emergency Management Agency monitored the exercise.

While detailed plans for 10 miles evacuations, the crisis in Japan is another dimension. American has the United States to evacuate Fukushima Daiichi rely for 50 miles of the crippled nuclear power plant. NRC of Chairman Gregory Jaczko said Congress, that is, what he would advise for a similar situation in the United States.

"It is a complete game-changer." Should we go tomorrow back to the drawing board and work day and night with several agencies, multiple jurisdictions, "Said Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino."

Astorino added, that his Office was questioning the NRC on his advice in Japan has because the County for the evacuation of a 10-mile zone around the plant is not ready.

Despite the Jaczko of of warning for Americans in Japan point operators say Indian, they imagine, a crisis as severe as in Fukushima, the six reactors, compared with two in Buchanan has.

"It is not a scenario we have where the dose rates or the radiation would require the evacuation of New York City, which has been identified at least up to this point," said Joseph Pollock, Vice President of operations at the Indian point energy Center.

While Office of emergency management for numerous disasters is the city of New York it plans not only for evacuation in response to a serious accident at the Indian point.

"Plans are there, to which people move around, but plans are not specific to Indian point." It is an all-hazard plan, said Chris Gilbride, spokesman of New York's Office of emergency management.

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