I belong to Kawecki first group; add to the situation that japanese people die (literally, not metaphorically) not to lose face or for having lost face so be rock sure that they are trying to keep the actual situation from being exactly known.

I forgot to mention a very interesting source of factual information about nuclear accidents of all types: the Database of Radiological Incidents. AFAIK it is the most complete compilation of accidents and it provides, when available, links to the IAEA reports in PDF format.

I think that pro-nuclears on this forum might find instructive reading about the tremendous fights put up by doctors to save victims of 4+ Sv accidents, all ending with the autopsy reports. The longest fight is the one conducted to save a victim of an irradiation plant, the Nesvizh irradiator accident; he died after 113 days. The story I hinted before is described in the Arzamas-16 criticality accident.

Dear Kawecki, your third paragraph should be framed: it is the most lucid explanation why people keep on deriding "conspiracy theories". An interesting note for everybody: the Mafia was considered in the US and Italy a conspiracy theory (though not called that way, the saying had not been coined yet).

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