Reply #16: Japan does not have enough land as it is, where will the evacuees live?

[txlibdem]

It's a serious question and the cost/benefit ratio has to be looked at.

The immediate area around the failed reactors isn't going to be safe to live in for decades at the very least. That population will need to live elsewhere. The cost of building housing, schools, hospitals, mass transit, roads, etc., is going to be significant no matter where they end up living.

Compare all those costs with building the floating cities I posted about above. If automated building techniques could make floating cities cheaper than rebuilding the tsunami damaged region.