Audit Confirms EPA Radiation Monitors Broken During Fukushima Crisis

“On March 11, 2011, at the time of the Japan nuclear incident, 25 of the 124 installed RadNet monitors, or 20 percent, were out of service for an average of 130 days,” the report says. “In addition, six of the 12 RadNet monitors we sampled (50 percent) had gone over eight weeks without a filter change, and two of those for over 300 days,” the report adds, noting that EPA policy calls on operators to change the filters twice per week.

http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/audit-confirms-epa-radiation-monitors-bro...

Must be a privatization issue as EPA contracts out there radnet dutys...

Read about that here
http://www.naturalnews.com/032525_EPA_RadNet.html
As others began to probe the situation further, it was uncovered that a private company, Environmental Dimensions, Inc. (EDI), is actually in charge of maintaining the RadNet system. And the owner of this company, which received a no-bid, sole source maintenance contract, is none other than Patricia S. Bradshaw, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense appointed by former President George W. Bush

-----radnet -improper calibration they were talking about this long ago here
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/2371