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Tokyo Exodus over Radiation Fears

Posted By sticks22 on Mar 17, 2011   FROM: abcnews.go.com report abuse

Now people are migrating 500 miles away to the third-largest city in Japan, Osaka after Earthquake-induced power cuts and food shortages due to the intense fear of fatal nuclear radiation that has engrossed Tokyo.

Radiation levels were sent beyond normal in the capital and in other prefectures in the north and east of Japan by another explosion and a fire at a nuclear-power plant in Fukushima so a hushed exodus from Tokyo started on Tuesday. Panic people are fleeing Tokyo as they worry of another earthquake united with rising alarm regarding radiation leaks from nuclear plants in Fukushima (northern Japan). Radiation levels surged to 23 times the normal level on Tuesday in the capital, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government. In last Friday's magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, four of the plant's six reactors were smashed.

Passengers crammed at Narita Airport

Photo source: noticias9.com

After a little spike in radiation levels were spotted in Tokyo the international and domestic terminals at Narita International Airport were overcrowded with passengers leaving the capital. The first foremost carrier to cancel flights to Narita International Airport is Germany's Lufthansa airline that services Tokyo, and it will redirect all the flights by Nagoya and Osaka. There are no likely details available at this time representing a need to avoid Narita airport, as per the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

Special charter flights are arranged by Korean Airlines to take Koreans out, US and Britain told their citizens to evade unnecessary journey to Tokyo, France told its citizens to leave the city, a noticeably diverse instruction than from the government advising residents to stay calm.

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