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This statement is backed by Seiki Soramoto's, engineer
and advisor of the Prime Minister Naoto Kan during the
crisis, as he denounces the incompetence and lack of
organization of the government in managing the data on
radiation:
In the end, it was the prime minister's office that
hid the Speedi data […] because they didn't have
the knowledge to know what the data meant, and
thus they did not know what to say to the public,
they thought only of their own safety, and decided
it was easier just not to announce it.
10
Seiki
Soramoto,
New York Times
, August 8, 2011
For their part, the members of the government in
question deny any attempt at covering up information by
emphasizing the lack of reliability in the SPEEDI data to
justify their refusal to use or publish them:
In an interview, Goshi Hosono, the minister in
charge of the nuclear crisis, dismissed
accusations that political considerations had
delayed the release of the early Speedi data. He
said that they were not disclosed because they
were incomplete and inaccurate, and that he was
presented with the data for the first only on
March 23.
11
Toshiso Kosako,
New York Times
,
August 8, 2011
Furthermore, Toshiso Kosako has stressed the lack of
practice of the government in using data from the SPEEDI
network.
This
allegedly
led
to
the
three
Japanese
10 See: www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/world/asia/09japan.html?
pagewanted=all.
11 See: www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/world/asia/09japan.html?page
wanted=all.
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