By Jason Groves
Last updated at 10:11 AM on 17th March 2011
- 17,000 British nationals could be evacuated as last ditch efforts are made to stop nuclear catastrophe
- Japan has 48 hours to avoid 'another Chernobyl'
- Foreign Office provides free-of-charge rescue flights from Tokyo
- Rich scramble to book private jets out the country as fleeing passengers pack Tokyo airport
- French say Japanese have 'visibly lost essential control' as they urge their citizens to get out
Plans are being drawn up to evacuate every British national in Japan amid mounting fears of a nuclear catastrophe. Thousands of Britons were last night warned to leave Tokyo and all other areas under threat of radiation poisoning.
The Foreign Office is even chartering additional planes to ensure that all British citizens can leave the country on free-of-charge rescue flights - as thousands of terrified passengers cram into Tokyo airport attempting to flee.
It comes as the Japanese authorities resorted to dumping water on over-heating reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant from helicopters in a desperate last-ditch attempt to stop a catastrophic meltdown.
Experts have warned that they have 48 hours to avoid another Chernobyl.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366670/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-French-claim-scale-nuclear-disaster-hidden.html#ixzz1GqsBeWPB
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