Japanese government to begin releasing radiation data it withheld for fear of causing panic

NNN0LHI

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Mon May-02-11 05:32 PM
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Japanese government to begin releasing radiation data it withheld for fear of causing panic

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/

Belated release of radiation forecast data

updated at 17:30 UTC, May. 02

The Japanese government is about to begin releasing data projecting the spread of radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that it initially withheld for fear of causing panic.

The data in question is in a computer system called SPEEDI that predicts the spread of radioactive substances based on actual radiation measurements at various locations and weather conditions.

A joint task force of the government and Tokyo Electric Power Company says about 5,000 undisclosed bits of data will be released from Tuesday.

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Poll_Blind

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Mon May-02-11 05:34 PM
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1. The funny part is, if you watch the spokesman in the video he says "Sorry."

"Not releasing that radiation data because we believe it would cause panic. But we can interpret it better now, so we're releasing it. Sorry for doing that."

Or something very similar, I pulled up the video in a DU thread I think.

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flamingdem

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Mon May-02-11 05:35 PM
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3. Sorry always seems to work in Japanese culture

That might change after this disaster

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flamingdem

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Mon May-02-11 05:34 PM
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2. I think people might panic more

if they realize they've been exposed without their knowledge.

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