Radiation adviser to Prime Minister Kan to quit over gov't nuke crisis response

[flamingdem]

Ut oh, that says a lot..

Edit: I sure wish I knew that the translator meant my "impromtu" - unprompt? Something worse I bet.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/88617.html

TOKYO, April 29, Kyodo

An adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant told the prime minister's office Friday he will resign in protest over what he called the government's impromptu handling of the crisis.

[MercuryRepeater]

1. impromptu = half-assed

[flamingdem]

3. Yes.. quarter assed nt

[aquart]

2. Yeah, that'll help. "Impromptu."

That's just how I want my disaster response. "Impromptu."

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Resigning in protest. when did that go out of style in the USA?

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Watch what they do...

[JohnyCanuck]

6. Asia Pacific News report on the resignation

Toshiso Kosako, a Tokyo University professor who was named last month as an advisor to Kan, said the government had only taken ad hoc measures to contain the crisis at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.

In a tearful press conference, he said the government and its commissions had taken "flexible approaches" to existing laws and regulations, and ignored his advice after he was named an advisor on March 16.

"I cannot help but to think (the prime minister's office and other agencies) are only taking stopgap measures... and delaying the end" of the nuclear crisis, he told reporters.

Tokyo officials had drafted measures to deal with the accident that were not in strict accordance with the law, and the decision-making process had been unclear, he said.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1125750/1/.html