Angry Parents in Japan Confront Government Over Radiation Levels
May 26th, 2011Via: New York Times:
The accusations flew on Wednesday at the local school board meeting, packed with parents worried and angry about radiation levels in this city at the heart of Japan’s nuclear crisis.
“Do you really care about our children’s health?” one parent shouted. “Why have you acted so late?” said another. Among other concerns: isn’t radiation still raining down on Fukushima? Shouldn’t the entire school building be decontaminated? The entire city? Can we trust you?
“We are doing all we can,” pleaded Tomio Watanabe, a senior official of Fukushima’s education board.
A huge outcry is erupting in Fukushima over what parents say is a blatant government failure to protect their children from dangerous levels of radiation. The issue has prompted unusually direct confrontations in this conflict-averse society, and has quickly become a focal point for anger over Japan’s handling of the accident at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, ravaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
At issue are updated government guidelines that allow schoolchildren to be exposed to radiation doses that are more than 20 times the previously permissible levels. That dose is equal to the international standard for adult nuclear power plant workers.
there has been a slight shift in the media tide in the last week here. it is clearly still not enough, but more MSM outlets seem to be kowtowing a bit less to the govt agencies. the tide still hasn’t turned, it just looks like there is some chance that it might.
@tochigi
I had the link last night bur can’t find it. The International Atomic Energy Administration has stopped measuring radiation levels from Japan, just like the US EPA.
What the fluck???!!!
Glad to hear the people in Japan are getting a spine and standing up in protest re their children.
But I guess if I were living in Japan and could do something, I imagine mysself and army of cohorts wearing nuke protective suits being a Ninja army and putting those big polyester condoms on those reactors like LAST MONTH.