WSJ: NRC saw Fukushima danger early
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22 Feb 2012
In the days after Japan’s 2011 nuclear accident, the US surprised the world by ordering a 50-mile evacuation zone for US citizens, far larger than Japan’s own zone. That sowed fear and created tension with one of the US's closet allies.
Now, almost a year after the accident, newly released transcripts of discussions by US officials give the clearest picture yet of how that move was based at least in part on faulty information about whether spent fuel rods in one reactor had been exposed.
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