Residents living far outside the evacuation zone said they would try to flee.

For the first time, everybody living within the evacuation zone was given a special 'action card' telling them what to do in a crisis.

Inside the 12-mile evacuation zone around the plant, all farming has been abandoned.

Two of the hospitals were in the evacuation zone, but only critical care patients were moved.

Of them, 194 were in the nuclear evacuation zone, 19 times the number from 2010.

The roof of the evacuation zone at the animal pole is much thinner than before.

This is the threshold to designate an area an evacuation zone.

The yellow area extended far beyond the evacuation zone already put into place.

So far, the government has shown no indication that it will expand the evacuation zone.

"If you're not in the evacuation zone, follow the news," the mayor said.