IAEA plays games with radiation dose rates at the fenceline of Fukushima Daiichi

In its Nov. 24, 2011 "Fukushima Daiichi Status Report," the IAEA states: "The dose to someone at the site boundary is currently estimated to be 0.1 mSv/yr. The estimate is based on the current rate of material being released from Units 1-3, i.e., excluding all previously released material." (emphasis added)

Of course, "excluding all previously released material" is convenient for nuclear power apologists like IAEA. While recent and current real time radiation releases from Fukushima Daiichi may be many orders of magnitude lower than they were in the days and weeks following March 11, 2011, they continue nonetheless. And some of the "released material" has included the discovery of actual fragments of irradiated nuclear fuel -- flung long distances likely due to explosions in high-level radioactive waste storage pools and/or reactor cores -- which emit very high levels of radiation dose. Other debris strewn about the area is contaminated with varying levels of radioactivity. IAEA's statement above confuses the actual radiological hazards on the ground at and near Fukushima Daiichi.