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Wildly conflicting information coming from Japan
By: Bill O'ReillyMarch 17, 2011
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Wall Street Journal: It's no easy job managing the world's worst nuclear emergency in a quarter century - particularly in Japan, where the government has a history of obfuscating and playing down crises, and this time has an errant business partner: the famously fibbing Tokyo Electric Power Co.

To be sure, government officials aren't just dealing with problems at the Fukushima nuclear facility. They're also tackling one of the biggest natural disasters in the country's history - entire towns wiped out by Friday's earthquake and tsunami. Tokyo and Tepco are understandably stretched.

Still, the crisis at Fukushima has been aggravated by the spare, often contradictory information issued by the government and Tepco, revealing what at times appears to be their own uncertainty about what's happening in the reactors.

Tuesday was a case in point. As more explosions reverberated at the facility and radiation levels spiked in venues far from Fukushima, the government sought to reassure the public that health was not threatened. But actions spoke otherwise: Officials evacuated workers from the plant and expanded an exclusion zone around the dying reactors to 30 kilometers, helpfully advising homeowners trapped by wind-borne radioactivity to "please keep the windows shut. If you are hanging up your laundry, please do it indoors."
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