
Japan Prime Minister and other officials unaware of key emergency response system SPEEDI until after Fukushima Daiichi disaster
NHK reports an independent panel investigating the Fukushima nuclear accident has found that the prime minister was not aware of SPEEDI, the government’s system that can predict the spread of radioactive materials quickly. While the government was attempting to cope with multiple reactors that were in various stages of meltdown, key government decision-makers were forced […]