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To: kingu

Thanks for the perspective. There have been no real news coverage of this event. I have been sceptical about the Leftie sources because of past lies.

But a nuke power plant meltdown is not without it’s risks. The Russians are a good example.

In the absence of reporting of radiation level readings it is impossible for me to know what is real and what is not.

Thanks again.


4 posted on 01/01/2014 12:36:09 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

There’s massive differences between the Japan and Russian events; effectively the nuclear pile in Russia melted down into the carbon blocks, and then burned as a fire for weeks, even well after they smothered the carbon blocks with millions of pounds of concrete.

The amount of nuclear material that melted was seventeen times the total amount of nuclear material at the Japan site, all in one containment building, vs the 4 reactor buildings and 4 containment ponds.

Almost all of the nuclear release in Japan was secondary contamination - IE: water that was used in containment vs the actual fuel the plant uses. Vs Russia which was almost entirely primary contamination, the fuel itself spreading around the world.

In all, the ENTIRE radioactive release from Japan so far has not exceeded the amount of material released in ONE above ground US nuclear bomb test. Almost all of Japan’s material went into the pacific ocean, vs above ground tests in the US which entirely contaminated the ground from Nevada all the way to the eastern seaboard.

Mind, modern radiation detectors are incredibly sensitive, nearly 600,000 times as sensitive as the detectors used in the 1970s. It is easy to produce ‘shocking levels of radioactive detection.’ One small radioactive mineral sample, a common item sold in chemistry kits, would peg most of these new detectors rather than giving the scant indication of the old units.

And none of these common sense comparisons is featured anywhere in the media, because a) it isn’t scary enough. b) It doesn’t make Japan’s government and nuclear power industry look bad, and finally c) it would degrade the anti-nuclear’s holding of Japan upon their holy pedestal as the only ‘victim’ of nuclear bombs used in combat.


5 posted on 01/01/2014 1:13:26 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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