My brain pulled that number from the article's discussion of Fukushima:
> In the worst case scenario, not made public until long after the disaster, the entire Tokyo Metropolitan Area - 35 million people - would have to be moved to temporary shelter. The very existence of the nation of Japan was at stake. And no one - not TEPCO, the utility that owned Fukushima, not the Prime Minister, not the Japanese military - could do anything but hope.
Feel free to call that unreasonably-worst-case or just hyperbole. (It kind of is.) But that's where I got it.
> In the worst case scenario, not made public until long after the disaster, the entire Tokyo Metropolitan Area - 35 million people - would have to be moved to temporary shelter. The very existence of the nation of Japan was at stake. And no one - not TEPCO, the utility that owned Fukushima, not the Prime Minister, not the Japanese military - could do anything but hope.
Feel free to call that unreasonably-worst-case or just hyperbole. (It kind of is.) But that's where I got it.