Japan’s government informed U.S. military of Fukushima radiation, but delayed informing Japanese people
Radiation-dispersal data was provided to U.S. before Japanese public, Mainichi Daily News, 17 Jan 12, TOKYO (Kyodo) –– Japan’s science ministry provided data on the dispersal of radioactive materials to U.S. forces a few days after the nuclear crisis erupted at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, far earlier than the disclosure of the information to the Japanese public, a ministry official said Monday.
The revelation came amid criticism that the government’s delay in releasing data from the System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information may have resulted in the unnecessary radiation exposure of people who later evacuated from their homes around the plant.
The data was provided to U.S. forces via the Japanese Foreign Ministry on March 14, three days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered the nuclear crisis, according to Itaru Watanabe, an official of the Science and Technology Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
But it was not until March 23 that the public was officially informed. Watanabe, speaking at a meeting of the nuclear accident investigation panel set up by the Diet, said that the science ministry passed on the data to U.S. forces “to seek support from them” in dealing with the nuclear crisis…..http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120117p2g00m0dm037000c.html
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