Will The Truth About Fukushima Ever Be Told?

From the beginning TEPCO and the Japanese government have lied about the effects of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima. To this day the lies continue with the Foreign Ministry has been told to quit lying about the safety of food exported from Japan. Yet, the governments unwillingness to tell the Japanese public about the real dangers posed by the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan — The day after a giant tsunami set off the continuing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, thousands of residents at the nearby town of Namie gathered to evacuate.

Given no guidance from Tokyo, town officials led the residents north, believing that winter winds would be blowing south and carrying away any radioactive emissions. For three nights, while hydrogen explosions at four of the reactors spewed radiation into the air, they stayed in a district called Tsushima where the children played outside and some parents used water from a mountain stream to prepare rice.

The winds, in fact, had been blowing directly toward Tsushima — and town officials would learn two months later that a government computer system designed to predict the spread of radioactive releases had been showing just that.