Nuclear evacuation drill near Kashiwazaki nuclear plant 柏崎原発付近の住民が避難訓練

(Source) http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11594
As part of the effort to restart Kashiwazaki Kariwa the nearby city of Nagaoka held an evacuation drill. JAEA and Niigata Institute of Technology had recently introduced a new and improved modeling program to help with evacuations.
The evacuation drill used the government programs to predict where the radiation plume would go. This program uses weather forecasts to create evacuation models. In the middle of the drill the wind changed direction from the weather forecast for about 30 minutes putting people being bused to an evacuation center directly into the radiation plume. There was no word how exposed the fleeing people would have been in a real evacuation.
During the meltdowns at Fukushima people were eventually told to leave the area but government plume modeling was not made public nor shared with local government officials. This caused people fleeing Namie to be told to relocate to a an area that put them directly in the plume path.
This evacuation drill was to be part of the government effort to prove to the public that with better preparation there would not be a repeat of all the breakdowns and tragedies seen during the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The hope of these new safety programs would be to regain public confidence so they could begin to restart nuclear reactors. These safety programs appear to just be the nuclear safety myth 2.0.

If this impacts the restart of Kashiwazaki Kariwa it could also impact TEPCO’s future as a company. TEPCO has staked their hopes for staying in business on the potential income from this nuclear plant. 日本政府は柏崎原発再稼動に向けて、避難訓練を実施したが、単なる安全神話としか考えられない。

＜柏崎刈羽原発＞長岡で避難訓練 毎日新聞  http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20131013-00000061-mai-soci 

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*New Nuclear Regulation Authority Decides on 500uSv/hour as Future Evacuation Standard. 500マイクロシーベルトで避難決定 規制委が基準: 原発事故時、福島の実測値を根拠に 22/2/13

http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/new-nuclear-regulation-authority.html 

福島第１原発事故後に半径５キロ地点で毎時567～625マイクロシーベルトを記録、同500マイクロシーベルトが適当と考えた」と説明...

The NRA's decision was that levels of 567uSv/h-625uSv/h had been measured within a 5-km radius of the Daiichi Nuclear Plant soon after the accident, so they thought that 500uSv/h would be an appropriate level for an evacuation standard....

(Editor's comment) Information in the above article hasn't discussed much among the nation. There should be more public debate on the future evacuation standard before the decision by the NRA as we now know the extent of the effect from nuclear fallout has no end to stop.