Authorities have since expanded an evacuation area in an effort to protect nearby residents.
The farthest city, Kawamata, is nearly 30 miles from FDI, which means the evacuation area could swell to 1, 413 square miles.
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Russian rescue workers are 39 miles away from the evacuation area and are not being exposed to abnormal radiation levels, EMERCOM said Tuesday.
The governor of the region at the centre of Japan's nuclear crisis has criticised official handling of the evacuation of the area around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
The town of Kawamata normally has a population of around 20, 000 residents, but more people are likely staying in Kawamata after a government-ordered evacuation from the area surrounding the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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Both later remained at the scene to search for casualties and help with evacuation of the surrounding area.
The fair has claimed it was just about to call for an evacuation of the stage area but, darn the luck, it was too late.
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Local government officials issued an evacuation order for the Swat area Tuesday, ahead of the military operation.
Sheriff's officials also drove through the area giving the evacuation order over loudspeakers.
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We'll go to Mississippi later in the show, but first to New Orleans where a convoy of amphibious vehicles is carrying relief supplies through the flooded streets of the downtown area, and evacuation of tens of thousands of people is under way.
The lava flooded a two-hundred-and-fifty-square-mile area, requiring the evacuation of two hundred thousand people.
The evacuation of runners away from the area was impeded by the fact that many of them were badly fatigued or even injured from the race.
The earthquake and tsunami caused extensive damage to its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, resulting in radiation leaks which forced the evacuation of almost 80, 000 people from the surrounding area.
In his mind, he said, he simulated an worst-case evacuation scenario that included the 35 million people in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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