A former nuclear adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan blasted the government's handling of the crisis, and predicted more revelations of radiation threats to the public in the coming months.

　　日本首相菅直人（Naoto Kan）的一位前任核顧問炮轟政府對核危機(jī)的處理方式，并預(yù)測說未來幾個月民眾還會面臨更多輻射威脅。

　　In his first media interview since resigning his post in protest in April, Toshiso Kosako, one of the country's leading experts on radiation safety, said Mr. Kan's government has been slow to test for dangers in the sea and to fish, and has understated certain radiation threats to minimize clean-up costs. In his post, Mr. Kosako's role was to advise the prime minister on radiation safety.

　　STR?Agence France-Presse/Getty Images日本首相菅直人（Naoto Kan）的前任核顧問小佐古敏莊（Toshiso Kosako）。小佐古敏莊（Toshiso Kosako）是日本輻射安全方面的專家之一。此次是他今年4月辭職以示抗議以來首次接受媒體采訪，他說菅直人政府在檢測海洋中的危險物質(zhì)以及給魚類帶來的危害方面行動遲緩。為了盡可能減少清理費用，政府還少報了某些輻射威脅。小佐古敏莊在任時的主要工作是給首相菅直人提供輻射安全方面的建議。

　　And while there have been scattered reports of food contamination-of tea leaves and spinach, for example-Mr. Kosako predicted there will be broader discoveries later this year, especially as rice, Japan's staple, is harvested.

　　雖然此前有過食品污染的零星報道（比如茶葉和菠菜），但小佐古敏莊預(yù)計今年晚些時候還會發(fā)現(xiàn)更多遭到污染的食品，尤其是當(dāng)日本人的主食大米收成的時候。

　　"Come the harvest season in the fall, there will be a chaos," Mr. Kosako said. "Among the rice harvested, there will certainly be some radiation contamination-though I don't know at what levels-setting off a scandal. If people stop buying rice from Tohoku … we'll have a tricky problem."

　　小佐古敏莊說，今年秋天收獲時節(jié)你再來看，肯定會出現(xiàn)混亂。收獲的大米肯定會遭到某種程度的輻射污染。雖然我不知道輻射的水平，但這會掀起一場丑聞。如果民眾不再購買日本東北部地區(qū)的大米，我們的麻煩就大了。

　　Mr. Kosako also said that the way the government has handled the Fukushima Daiichi situation since the March 11 tsunami crippled the reactors has exposed basic flaws in Japanese policy making.

　　小佐古敏莊又說，3月11日海嘯嚴(yán)重?fù)p壞核反應(yīng)堆以來，政府處理福島第一核電站危機(jī)的方式暴露了日本決策過程的基本缺陷。

　　"The government's decision-making mechanism is opaque," he said. "It's never clear what reasons are driving what decisions. This doesn't look like a democratic society. Japan is increasingly looking like a developing nation in East Asia."

　　小佐古敏莊說，政府的決策機(jī)制并不透明，我們從不清楚主導(dǎo)某項決策的原因是什么。這看上去一點也不像一個民主社會。日本越來越像東亞的一個發(fā)展中國家。

　　Specifically, Mr. Kosako said the government set a relatively high ceiling for acceptable radiation in school yards, so that only 17 schools exceeded that limit. If the government had set the lower ceiling he had advocated, thousands of schools would have required a full cleanup. With Mr. Kan's ruling party struggling to gain parliamentary approval for a special budget, the costlier option didn't get traction, he said.

　　小佐古敏莊特別指出，政府給校園可接受的輻射水平設(shè)置了一個相對較高的上限，這樣一來只有17所學(xué)校超過輻射上限。如果政府將上限調(diào)低至他所主張的較低水平，將有數(shù)千所學(xué)校需要進(jìn)行徹底清理。他說，由于菅直人所在的執(zhí)政黨仍在試圖讓國會通過一項特別預(yù)算案，他所提出的成本更高的降低輻射上限方案沒有什么吸引力。

　　"When taking these steps, the only concern for the current government is prolonging its own life," Mr. Kosako said.

　　小佐古敏莊說，采取這些措施時，現(xiàn)政府惟一關(guān)心的是如何才能延長自己掌權(quán)的時間。

　　Mr. Kan's office referred questions about Mr. Kosako's remarks to a cabinet office official, who declined to be identified. The official said the government is making "utmost efforts" to improve radiation monitoring in the sea and working closely with fishermen and others.

　　首相菅直人的辦公室將有關(guān)小佐古敏莊言論的問題轉(zhuǎn)給了一位不愿透露身份的內(nèi)閣辦公室官員。這名官員說，政府正在盡最大努力加強(qiáng)海洋輻射監(jiān)測，同時也在和漁民及其它群體密切合作。

　　"Particularly close attention is paid to the safety of rice as Japan's staple food," the official said, adding the government would suspend the shipment of crops if radiation exceeding a set standard is detected. The government has banned the planting of rice in certain areas.

　　這名官員說，政府尤其密切關(guān)注作為日本人主食的大米安全問題。這名官員又說，如果檢測出的輻射水平超過某一設(shè)定指標(biāo)，政府將暫停相關(guān)農(nóng)作物的運輸。政府已經(jīng)禁止在某些地區(qū)種植水稻。

　　As for schools, the official said the government was working to lower the ceiling for acceptable radiation, and "is also considering additional steps." 

　　至于校園輻射安全問題，這位官員說政府已在著手降低可接受輻射的上限，同時正在考慮采取額外措施。