Indeed, on the 3/11 as the events were unfolding and prior to the explosion, I was checking the Japanese "SPEEDI" network [1] for the very same information. I thought "wow, how cool is Japan for having this system up and on the Internet in the case of Nuclear disasters!"
But something was very peculiar -- the zones I wanted to monitor had all become listed "調整中" in Japanese and written "under survey" in English.
I smelled a cover-up. Before the Tsunami hit they had a small item explaining that due to the Earthquake some of the monitoring equipment had been disrupted. After the Tsunami, the same information read that the sites now had been originally disconnected via a tsunami.
You would think that they would work quickly to re-enable the affected zones, though even today the website shows that affected sites are still "under survey" -- if you jump to the top page, it clearly reads in Japanese "At the moment, all updating for monitoring data regarding Fukushima and Miyagi have been stopped."
But something was very peculiar -- the zones I wanted to monitor had all become listed "調整中" in Japanese and written "under survey" in English.
I smelled a cover-up. Before the Tsunami hit they had a small item explaining that due to the Earthquake some of the monitoring equipment had been disrupted. After the Tsunami, the same information read that the sites now had been originally disconnected via a tsunami.
You would think that they would work quickly to re-enable the affected zones, though even today the website shows that affected sites are still "under survey" -- if you jump to the top page, it clearly reads in Japanese "At the moment, all updating for monitoring data regarding Fukushima and Miyagi have been stopped."
[1] http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/ [2] http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/speedi/pref.php?id=07