After discussion with their race's chief JAAF referee, on Nov. 27 the organizers of the Ageo City Half Marathon handed down a lifetime ban from their event against 36-year-old Australian Matt Inglis Fox for running the Nov. 15 race wearing the bib number of another JAAF-registered runner. The incident came to light after Fox posted on his personal Instagram account that he had run a PB of 1:06:33 and finished 203rd in Ageo with a 10 km split of 31:03, along with photos and video of himself in the race wearing a bib number beginning with 11. Fox did not appear in the results by name or in that time or place, the closest match being a 1:06:54 gross, 1:06:50 net finish time with a 31:21 10 km split for 18th place in the JAAF-registered division and 209th overall by bib number 1129, registered to a non-Japanese Tokyo-resident club runner. The club runner, Harrisson Uk , readily confirmed that he had given his bib to Fox, saying, "I gave my number to Matt. It wasn't me."...
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Quite useful information is found in the blog of the Union of Concerned Scientists:
http://allthingsnuclear.org/
http://twitter.com/#!/arclight
Writer is a U.S. nuclear engineer being repeated interviewed on CNN, Fox etc. for his views on the situation. With regard to the "Why I'm not worried..." article he says:
RT @nasilva: @arclight Hi, what's your view on this article? http://t.co/cUjPpsV < THIS. Fantastic, clear summary!!! Please read!
I recommend you read his whole twitter feed going back to Friday. The Union of Concerned Scientists is an anti-nuclear group.