OSAKA — Two dozen Diet members have signed a letter calling on the government to immediately get young children and pregnant women out of the 30-km danger zone around the heavily damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
The statement also calls for extending the current 20-km mandatory evacuation zone radically to avoid further exposure and discontinuing official declarations that there is no immediate harm to human health, charging they aren't properly transmitting to the public the dangers of possible long-term radiation harm.
The statement, drawn up by antinuclear groups, will be delivered to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Monday. As of Friday afternoon, it had been signed by 25 Diet members from both chambers.