Sentences with phrase «kilometer radius evacuation»

Today, Japanese officials told the population living up to 30 kilometers from the plant that they should consider leaving the area, expanding the previous 20 - kilometer radius evacuation zone.

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The crisis ultimately required the potentially permanent evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people in a 20 - kilometer radius around the nuclear complex.

But the possibility that the fuel had been exposed was plausible and alarming enough for then - NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko on 16 March to urge more extensive evacuations than the Japanese government had advised — beyond a 20 - kilometer radius from the plant.

Evacuation orders were repeatedly revised as the evacuation zones expanded from the original 3 - kilometer radius to 10 kilometers and later, 20 kilometers, all iEvacuation orders were repeatedly revised as the evacuation zones expanded from the original 3 - kilometer radius to 10 kilometers and later, 20 kilometers, all ievacuation zones expanded from the original 3 - kilometer radius to 10 kilometers and later, 20 kilometers, all in one day.