[AndyTheBear]

Does this mean that the damage is more horrible than thought? Or does it mean that what nuclear waste standards in U.S are silly?

[KC_Lion]

Serious Subject...

Must....

Resist...

Joke!

[Beowulf9]

What do you think about the exports from there?

[SandRat]

Won' be too Long before You Know Who shows up?

ROAR!!!!!!!

[justa-hairyape]

Heads up if you are under the Jet Stream in the US (see article below). High radioactivity levels coming straight from Japan over the US right now. They are monitoring the fallout. If it is raining in these Jet Stream areas, stay out of the rain. It is contaminated. High radioactivity detected over Colorado last night. Should be over St. Louis tonight.

!MAXIMUM ALERT! Unusual Jet Stream Radioactivity Detected

[SoldierDad]

And yet, Nakasaki and Hiroshima were repopulated in a fairly short amount of time after 1945.

[GOPJ]

I have an idea - why don’t we give California to the Japanese - on the condition they clear out the illegals and assume California’s debt.

It’s a win-win.

The Japanese would make wonderful neighbors and friends - AND California won’t pull down the rest of the country into a deep depression...

[JimSEA]

Another article from Natural News (Real News from Real People, Naturally). I don’t know about the fate of the doomed Japanese, but I now know seven foods that will cleanse my liver and a weird Chinese herb that will keep my hair from falling out and a bunch of other great things.

[tdscpa]

Japan is so radioactive, their economy is so bad, and anyway their population should be immune to radiation poisoning, thanks to the two WWII nukes, that they should dedicate the islands to the storage of nuclear waste.

The could become what Nevada does not want to.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

According to an analysis of five random soil samples recently taken by nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen, the soil around Tokyo is so contaminated with Fukushima radiation that it would be considered nuclear waste here in the U.S.

Gee, you'd think people in Japan would be fleeing Tokyo in droves. Arnie Gundersen is a fairly well known nuclear alarmist and sensationalist, which makes him a "nuclear expert" as far as network news is concerned but lends no credibility to anything he says.

[snowsislander]

This is a stupid hoax.

Believe me, the Japanese popular press would be full of lurid accounts of any such widespread radiation. You should have seen the press pandemonium when there was actually a bit found in Tokyo last year. Think the "Daily Mail" on steroids.

Here's the latest WHO exposure summary chart (which, by the way, the Japanese government doesn't agree with, saying that the chart overstates the spread of radiation):

Image courtesy of Asahi.com

[snowsislander]

Here's some actual news about searching for people who have been overexposed to radiation. It's an article about how municipalities in Fukushima as well as the prefectural government have on their own initiative gone out and bought portable whole body scanners (at $625,000 a pop) to drive into neighborhoods to check people's actual exposure levels:

  Fukushima municipalities forced to go it alone on radiation testing

Courtesy of Asahi.com

Here's a relevant quote from the article about radiation levels found in people in the hardest hit areas of Fukushima, and not distant Tokyo:

It released encouraging results on May 15 based on tests conducted on 9,502 people. While radioactive cesium was detected in 68.9 percent of adults (senior high school students or older) in October 2011, that figure had dropped to 9.9 percent in March this year.

The corresponding figures for children (junior high school students or younger) also fell from 32.3 percent to 0.8 percent.

Radiation levels dropped in all 67 children who showed high radiation levels in their first checkups and received follow-up tests. Levels also fell for 112 of 114 adults who showed high radiation levels in their first checkups. Two men, both aged 60 or older, showed a slight increase in their levels.

“Cesium has decreased for most of the people because it has passed out of the body in the form of urine or other substances. As for those whose radiation levels rose, there could be influences from food taken by them. It is necessary to continue to have checkups, including tests on food,” said Masaharu Tsubokura, a doctor at Minami-Soma City General Hospital, who was in charge of the WBC checkups for Minami-Soma residents.