Japanese Weather chief draws flak over plea not to release radiation forecasts

[flamingdem]

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/88604.html

TOKYO, April 29, Kyodo

The chief of the Meteorological Society of Japan has drawn flak from within the academic society over a request for member specialists to refrain from releasing forecasts on the spread of radioactive substances from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

In the request posted March 18 on the society's website, Hiroshi Niino, professor at the University of Tokyo, said such forecasts, which he says carry some uncertainty, ''could jumble up information about the government's antidisaster countermeasures unnecessarily.''

''The basic principle behind antidisaster measures is to enable people to act on unified reliable information,'' he said.

[SpoonFed]

1. Uh?

...about the government's antidisaster countermeasures...

anti-disaster counter-measures

Isn't that a double negative of sorts,
synonymous with TEPCO or nuclear power?

Or maybe the Japanese government is the real anti-disaster counter-measure?

And unnecessarily jumble up, as opposed to necessarily jumble up?
It seems that TEPCO feels the need to necessarily jumble up at all stages.