Gov’t orders Pinoys’ evacuation from Fukushima By Michaela P. del Callar 04/13/2011

Gov’t orders Pinoys’ evacuation from Fukushima

By Michaela P. del Callar 04/13/2011

After Japan raised the nuclear crisis alarm over a tsunami-devastated nuclear plant in its northeast, the Philippine government yesterday ordered the mandatory repatriation of at least 1,144 Filipinos from the region which could be exposed to radiation leaks.

The first emergency flight out of the stricken Fukushima Prefecture, where the devastated Fukushima Dai-chi Nuclear Power Plant has been dangerously leaking radiation since being smothered by a massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami, has been scheduled on Sunday, according to acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario.

Aside from Filipinos within the 50-kilometer radius of Dai-ichi power plant, Del Rosario also announced a voluntary repatriation for Filipinos staying within another 100 kilometers from Fukushima as the nuclear crisis, now at the same magnitude as the 1986 Chernobyl plant disaster, escalated in Japan..... MORE


Source:  The Daily Tribune

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