Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant

garymortimer writes with word that "footage taken from an RQ-4 Global Hawk drone was passed on to the Japanese government with permission for public release from the US Air Force. US military sources said that the decision to release the footage — or not — was up to the Japanese government." The Japanese government, though, has thus far chosen not to release the high-resolution footage of the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.

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[Mashiki]

The problem in the US is that you've taken the choice of screen everyone instead of people who are actually out to do you harm. I mean profiling, it's evil or something. Anyway.

Where I live everything is contaminated by some form of radiation. We have it in the water, and we have it in the 'locally grown crops' I live in Canada, oh and we deal with radon seepage too. But not that it matters too much. The vast majority of this contamination won't matter 3mo down the road, and the majority of people will have forgotten about the reactor, and about the state of northern Japan too. I'm currently looking to buy land in Japan, good time to do it.

250km you don't say? Well I already knew that, funny story. I'm within 250km of 8 different reactors, including 2 that were leaking the other day. At the site? Yesterday it peaked at 81usv last I heard. Today from what I last heard it was around 61. Which is less than in some places in the US.