Report: Infant Girls Exposed to Most-Contaminated Fukushima Area Face 70% Higher Risk Thyroid Cancer

[RobertEarl]

18. You should go there and tell the people

That it is perfectly safe there. That the 160,000 people can go home now.

But you are right, the plume actually spread around the world in a few days.

The advice to Americans within the 80 kilometers was given after a few days of the first releases, and was based upon real data of radiation found in the area.

Based in part on NARAC projections and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) guidance, on March 16, the U.S. Department of State advised American citizens living within 80 kilometers of the damaged nuclear power plant to evacuate or take shelter indoors. Factors such as weather and wind direction were cited by the embassy as key reasons for this recommendation. “None of the recommendations were based solely on model results,” says Gayle Sugiyama, program leader for NARAC. “But modeling analyses were certainly important in providing guidance, especially in the early phases of the crisis.”