The company running the Fukushima meltdown disaster in Japan have been getting away with murder in how little information they have revealed to the public about what actually has occurred and is occurring. Today even its colleagues in the Japanese nuclear power industry gave the company, Tokyo Electric (a.k.a Tepco), quite an earful:

The society notes that there is the possibility that the damage to people's health from radiation exposure has increased because the government, Tepco and other related institutions did not properly disclose information on the status of the nuclear accidents and the environmental contamination by radioactive substances....

The cases clearly show that the information disclosure process is flawed. (The society also gave other examples.) The society notes that such vital information as the temperature of the lower section of the pressure vessels, the volume and temperature of the coolant water in the lower part of the pressure vessels, and the temperature of the molten nuclear fuel have yet to be released.

What the government over there is waiting for before nationalizing Tepco is anyone's guess. But the rest of the world ought to condition all assistance to Japan on a thorough cleanup of the firm's disgraceful misinformation act.