[paganel]

> but my opinion is that it is detrimental to public perception of risk.

The Finnish nuclear unit-nuclear watchdog had found that radiation levels had risen [1], the public does deserve to know and make up its own opinion about it.

Also, centralized systems are a lot more vulnerable and high-risk compared to distributed systems.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/finland-nuclear-incident/rad...

[vesinisa]

The initial reporting was misleading in that it was not clearly communicated that where the radiation levels had risen. So yes, radiation levels rose inside the primary cooling system. This is what triggered the automatic emergency shutdown. But the primary cooling system is anyway 100% isolated from the environment.

In particular, no change of radiation levels whatsoever outside the reactor building was ever detected. But initial reports did not make this quite clear.