Japan's Government "Scared" of Telling Truth

That is what Professor Kenichi Matsumoto told Australia's ABC News. Matsumoto, a former special advisor to the cabinet said the government knew for months that people who lived in the Fukushima exclusion zone would not be able to return for 10 to 20 years because of contamination, but could not bring itself to level with the evacuees. He also revealed that TEPCo wanted to abandon the plant at the height of the crisis, but the request to do so was rejected. Meanwhile, the jury-rigged cooling system has managed to bring the reactors' temperature levels to below the boiling point for the first time since March 11th. Nevertheless, the company is nowhere near a cold shut down of the crippled reactors. Radiation releases continue, but they are much lower levels than earlier.