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How workers encrypted, to stabilize Japan's Friday crippled nuclear power station Fukushima Dai-Ichi, fight makes companies to cope with and fuel shortages, hard decisions about whether operations more secure locations and fear among their workers to evacuate.

"The majority of people, that we in Japan to speak only fear", said Ames gross, President of the Pacific Bridge, an executive search and human resources consulting companies in Asia.

These fears were reinforced by conflicting reports about the dangers of radiation leaks from earthquake-stricken reactors in the Easternprefecture of Miyagi. The United States began evacuating family members and dependents of government officials within a 50-mile radius of the plant, a larger area, the Japanese officials have created.

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"Beyond this 50-mile radius, risks you call for the evacuation," President Barack Obama said Thursday. "But we have a responsibility, take prudent and preventive measures to train the Americans, who may be at risk due to radiation when the situation is made worse."

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Also evacuated Government employees have other countries - including Australia and Germany - the UK and some international companies have their employees further away from the system of the country.

More than 3,000 Chinese were from Japan's northeast in Niigata, on Japan's West Coast, according to Xinhua News Agency evacuated.

Beyond the 50-mile radius to evacuate more precise information on the risks posed by the plant, the decision was marred by the difficulty, said Nick Allan, Asia Pacific Director of control risks, a global risk Advisor.

"There are many sensational information are and sensational projections," Allan said. "But really know the risks, which are I think the challenge is many companies face."

International companies consider a complete evacuation with the sensitive issue were whether you offer same option rings for their Japanese employees as Allan.

"Evacuate all?" Because this means that you should include your Japanese employees might, if "he said this danger." "And have a lot of Japanese families." "There are so real consequences of these decisions, the company must."

German technology companies SAP and Infineon under the move staff for security in the South of the country, along with the car manufacturers were BMW and Volkswagen.

Cisco systems, headquartered in San Jose, California, temporary closed locations in Shinjuku, Tokyo and Sendai. Their employees are in the position, many of them work from home. IBM, based in Armonk, n.y., said its operations were not disrupted, and had no reports of serious injuries to its employees in Japan.

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Chicago-based Boeing, with more than 200 employees in Japan, temporarily postponed business trips in the area but had no plans to evacuate your personnel.

Swedish furniture offered giant IKEA, Japanese employees leave Tokyo and surrounding areas and the relocation of further South, to help according to Australia's Herald Sun newspaper. IKEA employs approximately 2,000 people in Japan, and a company official said it had offered to help move some 1,200 employees and their families in the Kansai region South of Tokyo.

Around 650,000 foreign workers were of more than 100,000 companies in Japan, as of Oct. 31, according to the nation used the health, labour and Social Affairs Ministry. About40 percent or 260,000 are factory workers. Chinese workers make 290,000; 120,000 are Brazilians and Filipinos are 62,000.

In Tokyo, about 140miles South of the concerned nuclear complex, Japanese officials said radiation levels were slightly elevated - but not high enough to a threat to the 39 million people in and around the capital. These assurances were not enough to prevent company employees further from the plant.

Those who remained in the capital reported that the city, but had closed.

"People are not going to work, there are very few people on the streets and most companies have closed their offices this week," said gross. "People are for the most part from home from work." "But if you have a Widget, you can it from home."

Manufacturer in the Northeast were the strongest of the 9.0 Quake and resulting 30-foot tsunami affected. The extent of the damage and cost of reconstruction is as above shall be assessed. For these plants for weeks, none is spared serious damage full production expected to be or can be recovered months

"The greatest impact, we see only due to the power outages, the production of all sorts of things will have," said Craig Berger, the FBR capital markets. "These rolling blackouts it difficult back to typical production reach make."

Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant produces about one-fifth of Japan's nuclear power, an important source of electricity for the island nation. Make up for this deficit with hot-spare production capacity by one been hampered national grid, which is two-fold, and works with various standards in the North and South

"The reserve capacity of the grid in Japan not so high", said Cornelia Meyer, an energy consultant and CEO of MRL Corp. "so if you take offline the adaptation of the grid of a plant is not an easy thing."

While many companies reported normal package deliveries, bottlenecks which of several bottlenecks in the fuel pipeline was some local shipping of petrol and diesel. Although crude oil supplies are suitable, were six refineries by the quake, tap shut down from about 30 percent of the domestic production of petrol and diesel fuels.

Fuel supplies have further crimped was by damaged roads and pipelines, which have blocked distribution of petrol stations and companies. Widespread hoarding added to scarcity; the Government called on consumers "Stop panic buy", free up desperate fuel for operations required.

Food shortages were grown up on fears of contamination of the products in the area of Fukushima also cut Dai-Ichi-plan.

"It is a large agricultural area, so Meyer", which is where I the influence a lot of rice and vegetables see - as internally, the Japan created - you must now add fuel to food price inflation import. "

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