Ex-US envoy on Japan nuke taskforce recalls crisis (AP)

TOKYO ? A retired American envoy who worked with Japan's nuclear crisis taskforce during this year's triple disaster says the U.S. considered evacuating its troops from the country in a worst-case scenario.

Former director of the U.S. State Department Japan office Kevin Maher said Thursday that "nobody" in Japan's government was in charge early in the crisis that unfolded after a March 11 earthquake and tsunami crippled a nuclear power plant.

He said without information and leadership from Tokyo, U.S. officials drafted a plan to evacuate some of about 50,000 Japan-based servicemen in a worst-case scenario involving plumes of radiation.

Japan was criticized for being slow at disclosing information about the plant, where reactor cores melted and radiation leaked.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110818/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_earthquake_us

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