[ RadSafe ] Nuclear test ban agency has valuable radiation monitoring data from Japan nuclear accident -- but can't share them

[Doug Huffman]

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Tip o' the hat to Uncle Al Schwartz at MazePath.com/uncleal/

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/03/exclusive_governments_withhold.html

"But the agency, which like all intergovernmental organizations, answers
to its member states, is not allowed to make data about nuclear
accidents public. "We have a mandate from our 182 member states to
communicate seismic data to the outside world," she says, "When it comes
to this radionuclide data [for monitoring nuclear accidents], we don't
have such a mandate, so I can't tell you, for example, what it is that
we are finding." Even for seismic and hydroacoustic data for the
purposes of tsunami warning systems, which saves lives, there were some
countries that in the past resisted the idea of making it public. There
has been some discussion among member states about disseminating
radionuclide data more widely."
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