About 90 households have been told they need to leave, because of increasing radiation levels.  The evacuation affects three districts in the city of Date.  The city is 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The Japanese government is trying to minimize mass evacuations by testing each residential property when radiation levels near unsafe limits.  The government explained the new evacuation determination to about 400 people in the affected districts.  If a residential property is determined unsafe then the people living there will evacuate, the government promises to provide support to them.

Most of the people at the meeting basically said they think they should just mass evacuate all the families, after all what if you live in a house next to another house that’s just been evacuated, but you’re told you’re going to stay?  The increasing, and spreading radiation levels shows that Fukushima Daiichi is still spewing radiation into the air.