however, evacuaten an area beyond 10 kilometers had not been anticipated. the prime minister's office ordered the nuclear agency to collect information on areas within 20 kilometers of the plant. the agency was told to find out the town's names and populations. this is agency's deputy director-general. he did not even have a map of houses beyond 10 kilometers of the plant and was unsure even if they could evacuate the people. >> translator: citying, towns and villages outside the 10-kilometer zone had no evacuation plans, but residents there would have to evacuate. this placed an enormous burden on local governments. pinches the governmentt ahead with complementing the 20-kilometer evacuation zone, despite not knowing how to evacuation the residents. >> reactor number 1 had exploded. so we had to assume that the same thing would happen to reactor number 2 and 3. we wanted as much space as possible between the people and the plant. we wanted the people to evacuate. >> the evacuation zone increased to 10 kilometers, and then to 20 on the same day. citizens an