Transcripts reveal confusion led to 50-mile evacuation call during incident

• Transcripts reveal confusion led to 50-mile evacuation call during incident: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko's proposal in 2011 to evacuate Americans from a 50-mile area around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, detailed in transcripts released by the agency, was based in part on faulty information in the early hours of the crisis. Jaczko and other NRC staffers incorrectly believed that there was no water left in the No. 4 reactor, leading to the call for a 50-mile zone. "If this happened in the U.S., we would go out to 50 miles," Bill Borchardt, the agency's executive director for operations, said in discussions with Jaczko on March 16. Bloomberg (2/21), The Wall Street Journal (2/22)