Exodus out of Japan on; Taiwan detects radiation 03/18/2011

Exodus out of Japan on; Taiwan detects radiation

03/18/2011
Alarm over Japan’s nuclear crisis grew yesterday, with more foreign goverments advising their citizens to flee Tokyo as army helicopters water-bombed an overheating power plant.

The US and Britain chartered flights for their nationals trying to leave Japan, China moved thousands of its citizens to the capital for evacuation and France assigned two government planes to pull its people out.

Commercial airline tickets were scarce and some companies hired private jets to evacuate staff. In Tokyo the streets were quiet but calm as the Japanese people, though deeply concerned, mostly remained stoic over the emergency.

At the stricken plant itself, Chinook helicopters dumped tons of water in a desperate effort to cool reactors crippled by Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami to prevent a catastrophic meltdown..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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