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TPM , Reuters Prime Minister urges people within 30 km to remain indoors. TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan faced a potential catastrophe on Tuesday after a quake-crippled nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating toward Tokyo, prompting some people to flee the capital and others to stock up on essential supplies.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan urged people within 30 km (18 miles) of the facility -- a population of 140,000 -- to remain indoors amid the world's most serious nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986.
Officials in Tokyo -- 240 km (150 miles) to the south of the plant -- said only minute levels of radiation had been detected so far in the capital, which were "not a problem."
Radiation levels in the city of Maebashi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Tokyo, and in Chiba prefecture, nearer the city, were up to 10 times normal levels, Kyodo news agency said. Foreign experts disagreed on whether this was harmful or not.
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2011/03/japan_braces_for_potential_radiation_catastrophe.php?ref=fpa
Further into the story you will see that many in Japan are:
1. Criticising the Prime Minister for not telling the whole story.
2. People in Tokyo are beginning to panic cause because of the above, evidently people are not believeing what the government and
media are telling them.
3.......And this additional quote from the story says a whole lot about what is really happening..
"The plant operator pulled out 750 workers, leaving just 50, and a 30-km no-fly zone was imposed around the reactors. There have been no detailed updates on what levels the radiation reached inside the exclusion zone where people live." 
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