Japan Nuclear Crisis: China Leads Exodus as Fears Rise (1st nation to begin evacuating its citizens)

Source: Time

Japan Nuclear Crisis: China Leads Exodus as Fears Rise
Time.com

Amid escalating fears of a catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan, China became the first nation to begin evacuating its citizens from the country, saying the "seriousness and uncertainty" of the damaged reactors caused it to be "very concerned" about the safety of its nationals. Foreign companies, too, have begun flying nonessential expatriate staff out of the capital, Tokyo. But other countries, including the U.S. and Canada, have adopted a wait-and-see attitude before ordering costly and logistically challenging evacuations, only advising their citizens at home to avoid travel to Japan.

After the Chinese embassy in Tokyo posted the notice on its website Tuesday, buses were immediately mobilized to begin transporting Chinese nationals from four northern prefectures - Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Iwate - to airports in Tokyo and Niigata to fly home to China. China Southern Airlines said it would replace the Airbus 321 aircraft on its Tokyo-Shenyang route with much larger Airbus 300s to accommodate the sizeable numbers of evacuees. Two ships capable of transporting a total of 4,000 people were also on standby in the Chinese city of Yantai, China National Radio reported. (See pictures of the devastation in Japan.)

"Everybody was happy when we heard that the embassy would send a car to pick us up," Li Mingwei, who ran a small shop in Sendai, told the Beijing News. The government, however, cautioned that a complete evacuation could take some time given the fact it has made contact with some 22,000 Chinese citizens in the region around Fukushima. "We hope our compatriots in the worst-hit disaster areas remain calm, listen to instructions, understand and cooperate with the evacuation operation," the embassy said on its website. Given China's track record at this sort of thing, it shouldn't take long. The country recently plucked more than 35,000 of its citizens out of Libya over the span of nine days - a maneuver hailed in the Chinese press as the largest overseas evacuation since the 1949 communist takeover.

Meanwhile, Chinese in other parts of Japan were trying to get out on their own. Wang Chengyu, who works in a company in Tokyo, told the Beijing News there were hundreds of people waiting at the Tokyo Immigration Bureau to get re-entry permits before leaving the country. "The supplies in the supermarkets have almost sold out," he said. "All that my colleagues talk about is nuclear leakage."

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to save the children and their mothers

which is 100 percent of daily advised under normal circumstances

radiation pills are 130 mg, so the multivitemin are about 1/800th of a radiation pill

still, good time to not be deficient, and there no risk in doing it

(Reuters) - Russia plans to evacuate the families of Russian diplomats serving in Japan from March 18, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-japan-quake-russia-diplomats-idUSTRE72F5ID20110316

far more than Western govts. I've noticed this in other areas, like executing the jerks who made poison baby formula...