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I think it's going to be interesting to watch the weaving of the "You can't be sure it's Fukushima. We learned at that same time that cell phones are carcinogenic" storyline. As if learning of it was the beginning of the effect. But they'll try to smear that distinction.

It's just maddening to watch them failing to even tell people in the areas around Fukushima that they should thoroughly wash their garden vegetables, because that would admit it's serious. That's saving face (and a myth) at the expense of peoples health and lives. Pregnant women and those with small children should "think of leaving"?

@elainekirk Also another problem is not all the people who are told to evacuate actually comply, for one reason or the other. In the USA and some European countries officials would probably force evacuation at gun point but in Japan it's a totally different culture.

@elainekirk It's that way with virtually every corporate-managed disaster. CYA crisis management at its worst. This could all have been plotted from the beginning like some bad TV movie. (Which, btw, we've not seen. Odd, given that the coed abduction du jour is in a movie within a month.)

@elainekirk Shows a complete lack of moral and ethical obligation towards their workers. It is beyond me, why no third party watchdog is monitoring TEPCO, the GoJ is responsible to do that and continiously fail to meet that

@lillymunster Dispickable furjough tactics by TEPO..anything to avoid direct responsibility.
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From France (with google translate): A lot of green tea from Japan that contains twice as much cesium as the maximum permissible level was intercepted at the airport of Roissy in Paris, and must be destroyed, announced Friday, June 17, the direction of consumption (DGCCRF ) in a statement.

This is a lot of 162 kg of dried leaves from Shizuoka Prefecture (Central).
This is the first time that radioactive products are detected in France as part of the controls put in place following the accident in Fukushima.

Laboratory testing revealed contamination with cesium in 1038 Bq / kg, exceeding the maximum permissible level set at European level, which is 500 Bq / kg for this type of product, says the DGCCRF.

The product has been quarantined and will be subject to destruction by a specialist.
DGCCRF decided to "establish a systematic monitoring of all plants from the same Japanese prefecture" and "will enter the European Commission to add the prefecture of Shizuoka prefecture to the list for which EU rules impose a control systematically from Japan. "

Also from France: The Minister for Industry, Eric Besson, seems to have lost his nerve when recording the issuance of Capital M6 entitled "Living and eating green: the new scramble for green solutions." According to Le Figaro, the minister invited to speak on the issue of nuclear power in France, left the board after ten minutes, when was released the testimony of a former subcontractor for the safety in nuclear power plants.
"The minister got up. He removed his microphone and threw it on the table and said: 'Come on, I leave you. I'm out. ****". Guy Lagache When asked what he was doing, the minister replied: "I bar". (sorry but google translate doesnot know all the french insults). In french with the video: bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr

IAEA: Japan did not heed global standards, recommendations

Jun 17, 2011, 18:49 GMT

Vienna - Japan did not implement several nuclear safety principles and recommendations of the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to an IAEA report drawn up by international experts.

The full report that was obtained by the German Press Agency dpa Friday exposes further how Japan's authorities fell short in preparing for nuclear accidents such as the one in Fukushima, following the previously publicized summary of the document.

For example, the experts described how the IAEA's fundamental principle of building several layers of defences against outside threats had not been adequately applied.

Although measures to protect against tsunamis were stepped up after 2002, they were insufficient, the report said.

'Moreover, those additional protective measures were not reviewed and approved by the regulatory authority,' it said.

'Severe accident management provisions were not adequate to cope with multiple plant failures,' the experts said in the report that was based on their visit in late May to Fukushima, where several of the reactors still have not been brought under control.

The IAEA-appointed independent experts also faulted Japanese authorities for instructing people in the vicinity of the Fukushima power plant to stay indoors, which they said was not in keeping with international norms.

The report also made clear that the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency still lacks independence and that there is some overlap with another body, the Nuclear Safety Commission, even though the IAEA already pointed out these problems in 2007.

Japan handled the nuclear disaster well, given the circumstances, the report said. 'Nevertheless the system of nuclear emergency preparedness appears to be complicated in its structure and organization,' it said.

I think that the IAEA articles are a warning shot for the GE statenment