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Japan declares evacuation area 'no-go' zone

Updated: 2011-04-21 10:20

(Xinhua)

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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan declared that the 20-km radius evacuation area around the crippled Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant will be off-limits from Thursday night, local media reported.

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