US lifts voluntary evacuation advisory for Japan

[nadinbrzezinski]

The United States has lifted its voluntary evacuation advisory for families of government employees in Tokyo and other Japanese cities.

The US State Department had issued the advisory due to the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. It had also recommended that US citizens should avoid travel within an 80-kilometer radius of the plant.

The department said on Thursday that the situation is dramatically different now than it was on March 16th when there were significant releases of radioactivity and the loss of effective measures to cool the reactor cores and spent fuel.

It said the cooling efforts are ongoing and successful, and that power and water supplies have been partially or fully restored.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/15_28.html

[uppityperson]

1. k&r

[MineralMan]

2. Things do seem to be settling down a bit. It takes some time

to figure out just what to do in unprecedented incidents like this one. I take this as good news.