More alarming news about the fallout from the Fukushima meltdown with The Wall Street Journal reporting that trace elements of plutonium have been found as far as 28 miles from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant. That's way outside the immediate area of the stricken area of the plant and it's a sign that the fallout is spreading. It means that people relatively far from the plant could be exposed to more dangerous elements than had been previously disclosed.
This makes Fukushima worse than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the Chicago Daily Herald reports, the radioactive zone is bigger than that left by the 1945 atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "The bulk of radioactive contamination cuts a 3.1-mile- to 6.2 mile-wide swath of land running as far as 19 miles northwest of the nuclear plant, surveys of radiation hot spots by Japan's science ministry show. The government extended evacuations beyond the 12-mile zone in April to cover this corridor, which includes parts of Iitate village. No formal evacuation zone was set up in Hiroshima after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city on Aug. 6, 1945, though as the city rebuilt relatively few people lived within 1 kilometer (.62 miles) of the blast epicenter, according to the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Museum. Food shortages forced a partial evacuation of the city in the summer of 1946."
Seven months after the March meltdown at Fukushima, about 80,000 people are still living in shelters or temporary housing. As reported here, a former adviser to the Japanese cabinet has revealed the government has known for months that thousands of evacuees from around the Fukushima nuclear plant will not be able to return to their homes.
Which leaves you wondering how long the Japanese government has known about the extent of the fallout and has neglected to keep the public informed.
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