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Japan Urged to Widen Evacuation Zone

HeadlineMay 25, 2011

A nuclear watchdog is urging Japan to widen the evacuation zone around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility. France’s Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety says around 70,000 people remain in a northwestern area it calls “the most contaminated territory outside the evacuation zone.”

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