Japan Held Nuclear Data, Leaving Evacuees in Peril
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/world/asia/09japan.html?_r=1
"Given no guidance from Tokyo, town officials led the residents north, believing that winter winds would be blowing south and carrying away any radioactive emissions. For three nights, while hydrogen explosions at four of the reactors spewed radiation into the air, they stayed in a district called Tsushima where the children played outside and some parents used water from a mountain stream to prepare rice. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/world/asia/09japan.html?_r=1
"Given no guidance from Tokyo, town officials led the residents north, believing that winter winds would be blowing south and carrying away any radioactive emissions. For three nights, while hydrogen explosions at four of the reactors spewed radiation into the air, they stayed in a district called Tsushima where the children played outside and some parents used water from a mountain stream to prepare rice. "
