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March 31, 2011

U.N. Urges Japan to Widen Evacuation Zone 
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The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has urged Japan to expand the
evacuation zone around the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
power station as radiation continues to leak into surrounding waters.
Fear of contamination have grown since Singapore detected radiation nine
times the legal limit in cabbages imported from Japan and the United
States reported small levels of radiation in milk samples on the west
coast. On Wednesday, dozens of people held an anti-nuclear rally outside
the Tokyo headquarters of the Fukushima plant's operator, the Tokyo
Electric Power Company.

Protester: "We have to change the way we think. If it is going to change
we cannot continue down the narrow path of economic growth relying on
nuclear energy and consuming everything."



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