sometimes weeks by the japanese government or the plant operator tepco. you ll recall on the 11th of march, tsunami waves crippled these cooling plants at the fukushima daiichi complex that set up meltdowns and ex poerkss in reactors and a meltdown in a fourth. green peace scientists said they d collected enough data to judge this disaster a level seven. that s the worst kind possible. other experts agreed. but it took until april 12 for the japanese government to call the partial meltdown of three nuclear reactors a level seven disaster. as for people living nearby, the japanese government waited until april 11th to widen its danger zone beyond 20 kilometers. that s nearly a month after the u.s. government recommended americans living inside 80 kilometers of the plant either leave or stay indoors. and then there s this. we think there is a partial meltdown, but that as you correctly noted, that doesn t necessarily mean the containment vessel will fail. that s energy secr
evacuations. hard to believe, 113 additional households in four districts in the city of date. that s far beyond the mandatory exclusion zone set up for 20 kilometers around the crippled reactors. these are newly designated hot spots. separately, according to a citizens group and a french ngo, trace amounts of radio isotopes have now been found elsewhere in children as far as 24 miles beyond that mandatory evacuation zone. additionally, this french ngo says it s been long warning that the allowable levels of radiation exposure set up by the government is simply too lax. this is something anderson and i and a lot of outside experts noticed almost from day one. bad news was consistently downplayed and delayed for days, sometimes weeks by the japanese government or the plant operator, tepco. you ll recall on the 11th of march, tsunami waves crippled these cool plants at the fukushima dive chief complex that exposed spent fuel two weeks later march 25th, green peace seentivitie