Though it's not yet a done deal, it is likely to happen very soon. In more bad news, the radiation level in seawater is also increasing. Reuters:
Pressure mounted on Japan on Thursday to expand the evacuation zone around its stricken nuclear power plant while officials said radiation may be flowing continuously into the nearby sea, where contamination was now 4,000 times the legal limit.
Both the U.N. nuclear watchdog and Japan's nuclear safety agency said the government should consider widening the 20-km (12-mile) zone after high radiation was detected at twice that distance from the facility.
Oppositions politicians have lambasted Prime Minister Naoto Kan for sticking with the original exclusion area, nearly three weeks after an earthquake and tsunami sparked the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.
