Fukushima Timeline March 25, 2011: Worst Case Evacuation of Tokyo and Yokohama Was Theorized

Fukushima Timeline March 25, 2011: Worst Case Evacuation of Tokyo and Yokohama Was Theorized

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Study theorized if things got worse ,they might have to evacuate Tokyo and Yokohoma

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My parents were washed away in the tsunami and I can't search for them because it is in the evacuation zone. If this is hell, we will have to crawl back towards heaven


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http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20111224p2a00m0na011000c.html

AEC chairman warned people within 170 km of Fukushima plant might need to relocate

The head of the government's nuclear energy panel warned in March that all residents in areas within a 170-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant might need to be relocated in a worst-case scenario, sources close to the government have disclosed.

Japan Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman Shunsuke Kondo made the warning in a report numbering about 20 pages, which he compiled on March 25 ...

Kondo assumed that in a worst-case scenario, another hydrogen explosion could occur in the No. 1, 2 or 3 reactor buildings, raising radiation levels. Continuing aftershocks would prevent workers from cooling down the reactors for an extended period and that all fuel in a pool for spent nuclear fuel in the No. 4 reactor building pool would melt. 

... [worst case] Kondo estimated the level of radioactive cesium per square meter of soil in areas within a 170-kilometer radius of the plant would surpass 1.48 million becquerels -- as high as that around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant shortly after the crisis there broke out. Moreover, he estimated areas within 250 kilometers from the plant, including Tokyo and Yokohama, would be contaminated with radioactive substances to a degree that residents would have to be evacuated at least temporarily.

[PM ]Kan said, "All residents would have to be evacuated in areas 100, 200 or even 300 kilometers from the plant if the leak of radioactive substances can't be stopped." He apparently made the remark with Kondo's worst-case scenario in mind."I assumed the worst-possible case. I've heard that it prompted utilities to strengthen cooling functions at their nuclear plants," he said.

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About 2 weeks after 3/11 = 3/25

http://jp.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/03/28/%E3%80%8C%E3%82%82%E3%81%86%E9%99%90%E7%95%8C%E3%80%8D%E3%80%81%E3%80%8C%E6%9C%80%E5%BE%8C%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A7%E6%88%A6%E3%81%86%E3%80%8D%E2%94%80%E5%8E%9F%E7%99%BA%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E6%9D%B1%E9%9B%BB/

google translate: 

EPCO employees work at Fukushima nuclear power plant, while a second earthquake disaster in the East itself, delivered by e-mail how the executives at headquarters site .As well as being victims, has confessed the painful breast employees in a company that is also being forced to deal with radiation leakage accident.

The following is its contents. [Note: 1F (1 Fukushima nuclear power plant), 2F (2 Fukushima nuclear power plant)]

Cheers for good work.
Every day, but I do not think I can afford to look busy, mail us at the headquarters of disaster, want to tell the state of today's power plants for the moment, will receive an e-mail.

Time since the earthquake, the people of the power plant we are to consult with restoration work day and night every day.
Approximately two weeks after the earthquake, is also considerably towards convergence 1F, who is hoping that this is going well still cool.

As you know, 1F, 2F working majority in the Shoin locals are all victims. Employees are also many that are flowing through the house.

I myself became canned headquarters since the earthquake emergency, but we're fighting every day and night in all, personally, because home is the ocean of Namie town, the whole town was washed away by tsunami directly below.
His family still know the whereabouts of the parents are swept by the tsunami.
If true, that we want to fly home anytime soon
, but can not even enter the area have come up with evacuation instructions.
Defense also made ​​me search activities 
are in hard labor anymore of this state of mind!

Earthquake is a genius. However, due to radioactive contamination due to nuclear power plants are located in this place TEPCO.
Feelings of local residents, have to say I think it's because of the momentum TEPCO'll now even the earthquake.
Everyone away from home, do not know whether the situation back in time, I do not know who hit the anger may be having an anxiety? Now it is reality.
Now, to welcome the new semester, we've lost all the local children and family friends who also work all schools would be forced to evacuate the district moving in! 
Who would endure this reality 
if, Please deliver this reality both internally and externally.

Not a bad man is not nuclear! Not everyone is not bad!
Most of the other person in the local power plant is in humans, it's all the victims including me.
Before a victim, and I try hard to fulfill all duties as an employee of Tokyo Electric Power.
2F, in particular, in addition to ensuring the safety of their plants in situations where recovery was done at the same time support 1F, though the scene was like a battlefield.
Comes to mind and body to the limit all employees. Please understand somehow.

Some companies now, it is survival of the company itself Kakare, nuclear power might even truncated.
But we will fight till the end!
Please also support from head office. Thank you.

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/12/26/jrt-most-read-posts-no-5-letters-from-fukushima/

english wall street journal 

one signed by a worker at the Fukushima Daini plant near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi reactors and the other by a Tokyo-based Tepco employee, were sent last Wednesday to a private email list and viewed by The Wall Street Journal. A Tepco spokesman verified the emails’ authenticity.

mail 1

I just wanted people to understand that there are many people fighting under harsh circumstances in the nuclear plants. That is all I want.

Crying is useless. If we’re in hell now all we can do is to crawl up towards heaven.

Please watch out for the hidden strength of nuclear power. I’ll make sure we will make a recovery.

I’d like to ask you to continue to support us.

mail 2

as a person living in Tokyo enjoying electricity, there is no time to waste by simply crying.

People in Tokyo are scrambling due to the planned blackout and stockpiling supplies, alternately acting at ease then worried over the spread of radioactive materials. I can only think this situation is strange.

I feel frustrating anger across the nation pointing to Tepco.

I suspect Tepco executives feel it well enough.

But everyone here pays respect and has lowered their head to pray for those who are facing the brunt of it and fighting on the front lines surrounded by enemies.

Although I am not in a position to say such a thing, I beg you to hang in there.

mail 3

I’m sure you are too busy at the disaster unit’s headquarters to look at emails. But I’d like to pass on the current situation at the plants.

We at the plants have been working on restoration work without sleep or rest since the earthquake. About two weeks have passed since the quake, and things have gotten better at 1F (Note — possible reference to Fukushima Plant No. 1, or Daiichi). We wish the cooling efforts will continue to work.

As you know, most of the workers at 1F and 2F (Note — possible reference to Fukushima Plant No. 2, or Daini) are local residents and victims of the quake. There are many workers whose houses were washed away.

I myself have had to stay in the disaster measurement headquarters the entire time ever since the earthquake occurred, and have been fighting alongside my colleagues without any sleep or rest. Personally, my entire hometown, Namie-machi, which is located along the coast, was washed away by the tsunami. My parents were washed away by the tsunami and I still don’t know where they are. Normally I would rush to their house as soon as I could. But I can’t even enter the area because it is under an evacuation order. The Self-Defense Forces are not conducting a search there. I’m engaged in extremely tough work under this kind of mental condition…I can’t take this any more!

The quake is a natural disaster. But Tepco should be blamed for contamination caused by the radioactive materials released from the nuclear plants.