Japan Told To Consider Widening Evacuation Zone Around Nuclear Plant

March 31, 2011 6:30:27 AM By Chizu Nomiyama and Chisa Fujioka TOKYO, March 31 (Reuters) – Pressure mounted on Japan on Thursday to expand the evacuation zone around its stricken nuclear power plant while officials said radiation may be flowing continuously into the nearby sea, where contamination was now 4,000 times the legal limit. In the first data on the impact of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis, Japanese manufacturing slumped the most on record in March as factories shut down and global supply chains were broken. The damage to the world’s third-biggest economy from the quake and tsunami alone could cost more than $300 billion, making it the…

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Japan Told To Consider Widening Evacuation Zone Around Nuclear Plant

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