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The Associated Press
Saturday, March 12, 2011; 4:39 PM TOKYO -- The U.N. nuclear watchdog says Japan is evacuating 170,000
people from the area near a nuclear power plant damaged in the
devastating earthquake and tsunami.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, based in Vienna, says the people
were ordered out of a 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius surrounding the
Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. The plant exploded Saturday, destroying the building housing the reactor
but not the reactor itself, and complicating relief and rescue efforts
by authorities after Friday's twin disasters. The IAEA says another 30,000 people were moved away from the area around
a second nuclear plant.
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