Kan nuclear adviser fed up, quits

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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Kan nuclear adviser fed up, quits

Tokyo professor calls response impromptu, says short-term thinking resulted in delays

Kyodo, AP

<snip>It is extremely rare for an intellectual adviser appointed by the prime minister to resign in protest at measures the government has taken.

Kosako told reporters at the Diet on Friday it is problematic for the government to have delayed the release of forecasts on the spread of radiation from the Fukushima plant, done by the Nuclear Safety Technology Center's computer system, called the System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information (SPEEDI).

He also blasted the government for hiking the upper limit for emergency workers seeking to bring the crippled plant under control to 250 millisieverts from 100 millisieverts after the crisis broke out.