Law enforcement officers also notified residents by driving through evacuation areas.

Both are well clear of the evacuation area.

The small township lay just beyond the evacuation area.

On the morning of 15 March, the evacuation area was again extended.

These evacuation areas were based on radioactivity levels above 20 mSv.

Many people returned home today after the evacuation area had been reduced.

Of those in the evacuation area, 60% actually left.

If you're in an evacuation area, leave now.

Many residents, even those in evacuation areas, said they would wait and see before worrying too much.

The evacuation area had been extended to a five-kilometer radius around the site.