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The article is an interesting slice-of-life in the prefecture. It covers back to school celebrations, school children being told the problem at the plant is completed and of no concern, and the distrust residents have for news agencies who report on the area without daring to visit the area. About the last third of the linked article covers the issue of what some believe is a media blackout and that is part of what I excerpted for the original post. "There is one particularly telling example of the media shielding TEPCO by suppressing information. This concerns “plutonium”. According to Uesugi, after the reactor blew up on March 14, there was concern about the leakage of plutonium. However, astonishingly, until two weeks later when Uesugi asked, not a single media representative had raised the question of plutonium at TEPCO's press conferences."