Imagine finding out you will never be able to return to your home in a foreign newspaper?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/world/asia/22japan.html

Large Zone Near Japanese Reactors to Be Off Limits
By MARTIN FACKLER
Published: August 21, 2011

TOKYO — Broad areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant could soon be declared uninhabitable, perhaps for decades, after a government survey found radioactive contamination that far exceeded safe levels, several major media outlets said Monday.

The formal announcement, expected from the government in coming days, would be the first official recognition that the March accident could force the long-term depopulation of communities near the plant, an eventuality that scientists and some officials have been warning about for months. Lawmakers said over the weekend — and major newspapers reported Monday — that Prime Minister Naoto Kan was planning to visit Fukushima Prefecture, where the plant is, as early as Saturday to break the news directly to residents. The affected communities are all within 12 miles of the plant, an area that was evacuated immediately after the accident. snip

Some 80,000 people were evacuated from communities around the plant ...

[Auntie Bush]

1. I feel for these people. Japan is already

crowded so where the hell are they going to relocate all those people. Is the government going to fairly reimburse them for the full value of their homes?
I wonder what the people at the boarder line of the area that's inhabitable are feeling? If it was me...I'd be scared to live there. What a terrible catastrophe :cry: