U.S. Declines to Give Details on Radiation Levels at Facility

Source: Market Watch

WASHINGTON—U.S. government officials, in private sessions on Capitol Hill Friday, repeatedly declined to give details of radiation measurements at the stricken Japanese nuclear complex, saying the situation is shrouded in a "fog of war."

Separately, the Obama administration said Friday "miniscule quantities" of radiation from the Japanese nuclear accident were detected Friday at a monitoring station in Sacramento, Calif., a day after similar traces of radiation were detected in Washington state. The administration said the levels of the radioactive isotope xenon 133 were approximately equivalent to one-millionth the dose received from the sun, rocks or other natural sources.

The Obama administration's reluctance to detail in public what it is learning from radiation-detection operations around the damaged Fukushima Daiichi complex in Japan highlights a broader sensitivity in the U.S.'s posture toward a stricken ally. The shift comes after statements Wednesday by the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that painted a grimmer picture of the nuclear crisis than Japanese officials had offered, and suggested that the U.S. didn't trust the information coming from the Japanese government.

NRC officials told congressional staffers in a briefing Friday that their information about radiation levels around the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex is fluid, and declined repeatedly to release detailed data, saying the information they have isn't reliable enough to share.

more: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/accurate-information-hard-to-come-by-us-says-2011-03-18

or are afraid of having to defend something or be responsible for some thing.

Guess we can call this one lying by omission.

Wonder what it is.

in milk. In theory they should test it... in reality... I doubt it.

That ist he long range by the way.

So shut up, quit being concerned. Go shopping! Also, the Gulf seafood is safe to eat.

:rofl: It is either laugh or cry and at this point I am out of tears for my Gulf of Mexico, I weeped like a child but I know that won't change anything. Tears never do nor does sorrow. I will never swim in its waters again. Have no idea what I am going to do in Port A this year. Maybe we should just go to Houston this year...it has been a longtime since I've seen 'home'.

...we can travel to the New York hospitals and have dessert with the
firemen and police officers who worked at 'ground zero' after 9/11
and were told that the air was safe.

Then we can do more shopping...then watch Idol!

*sigh* ...we must laugh or all we do is cry!

Just TELL us! It's better than sitting here wondering.

that would mean they detected plutonium

The war of the governments against the people.

due to the inconvenience it might cause a government.

but at the distance we are... it is the particles not the radiation.

Think of this in the following analogy... the radiation cloud is wind, the particles are dust.

The rads will be really low, as in ridiculously low. Time (of exposure) and distance (it diffuses exponentially)

The worst worry is plutonium, which is relatively heavy and should not make it across the pacific. Now tokyo is fucked.

Of course should not does not mean that it won't. Stranger things have happened.

and match that with what they have to see where to go strategically.

As in, it can help them formulate a response.

I believe we have flown drones over it (with sniffers) and the Navy is flying sniffer birds near this...

countries are complaining about that.

So I couldn't tell what the numbers meant.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x659480

tepco has distributed such handouts to press at almost all of their pressers. it's simply not true that they didn't release any numbers. maybe the numbers are inaccurate or even faked -- who knows? but it's simply undebatable that they indeed HAVE released numbers.

Actually, anyone in the world can watch the TEPCO pressers: there's been multiple live links to the conference room for days, e.g. here:

http://yokosonews.com/live/

Press Conference Live Casts
Live feeds of TEPCO and other press conference provided by independent journalists in Japan

Independent Web Journal Ch.1 - Usually TEPCO
http://iwakamiyasumi.com/ustream-schedule/ustream1

Independent Web Journal Ch.2 - Usually TEPCO (different cam)
http://iwakamiyasumi.com/ustream-schedule/ustream2

Independent Web Journal Ch.3 - Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan
VideoNews.com Live - Various Press Conferences (especially Foreign Press Club)

We all know this dog and pony show. It means bad. Not good.

in various stages of possible meltdown or containment breach. Firefighters spraying water on a reactor while helicopters can only make one pass to drop water because of the radiation. And there is no end in sight for any containment of the spent fuel pools. Yeah, it's bad.

BTW, I clicked on the link and got a "story not found."

Searched on the title words and found this link instead:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704608504576208840531837916.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


Oh and K&R

They were talking about the reactors and trying to reconcile what they were told today with what they had been told over the last week. It was obvious that they both realized the official stories have been bullshit. I would not be surprised if they both come back to the US this weekend since they now know that Japan is not a healthy place to visit.

:hi:

I still find her statements stupid and funny, and sadly I know what she was talking about.

:thumbsdown: