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kathatter75 t1_j736fzd wrote

I flew into San Francisco the morning after it hit in Japan. There was a man on my hotel shuttle who was getting in from Japan. He was working at the Fukushima plant when it happened. He offered to stay and help, but they were quickly gathering up foreign workers and shuttling them to Tokyo to send them home.

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merrimoocow t1_j75cvvw wrote

Why did they want the foreigners going back home?

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kathatter75 t1_j75dll0 wrote

When there’s a big disaster, it’s hard enough to keep track of the people you know live there without adding to it the people who are visiting. And it was probably a safety precaution for the foreign workers at the nuclear plant, in case it went bad (which it did).

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