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Japan’s handling of nuclear disaster far worse than Soviet Russia’s in Chernobyl

If Japan takes evacuation measures equivalent in scale to that following the Chernobyl disaster, it will need to relocate several millions of people in this densely populated country, 

*Asahi* Japan Physicist: Several millions will need to be evacuated from around Fukushima plant if gov’t used same scale as after Chernobyl — Japan’s handling of disaster “far worse” than Soviet Union http://enenews.com/asahi-japan-physicist-several-millions-will-need-to-be-evacuated-from-around-fukushima-plant-if-govt-used-same-scale-as-after-chernobyl-japans-handling-of-disaster-is-far-worse  August 9th, 2012
By ENENews  (Subscription Only) Title: INTERVIEW/ Yuko Fujita: Lone
wolf physicist calls for Nagasaki’s awakening
Source: AJW Asahi Shimbun
Author: HIROSHI MATSUBARA
Date: August 10, 2012
Long before the disastrous nuclear accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, physicist Yuko Fujita [former Keio University associate professor] warned that doomsday was coming.
[…]
“My effort to prevent a Chernobyl-level disaster in Japan ended in failure, but Japan’s handling of the accident is far worse than the Soviet Union’s reaction to Chernobyl,” he said.

[…] he conducted field research in Russia in the early 1990s […]

The Soviet Union evicted all residents from highly contaminated areas within a 300-kilometer radius, while providing them with housing, employment and welfare measures, Fujita said.
“At the time, I thought it was outrageous,” Fujita said. “But it is far more conscionable than what this country is doing–deceiving people into staying, taking advantage of their attachment to their homeland.”

If Japan takes evacuation measures equivalent in scale to that following the Chernobyl disaster, it will need to relocate several millions of people in this densely populated country, Fujita said.
“It probably means that this country will go bankrupt,” Fujita said.

August 10, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties