[kingu]

I'm trying to think of a list of successful government conspiracies, but I'm really coming up short... So I'll ask the most logical question: How much nuclear material was lost? Less than 1/30th of the size of the smallest above ground nuclear test during the 1950’s? Less than 1/100th of the mass of one of the Pacific atol explosions? And how much exposed radioactive dust was kicked up by the Japanese spill, say, compared to the India nuclear tests, or Chinese, or Russian? Or even Pakistani?

Yep, it would absolutely crush the entire world economy if the truth was known. It's the ultimate world government conspiracy...

[justa-hairyape]

The most successful government conspiracy was the Global Warming conspiracy. Took a heck of a lot of effort from many people to begin to uncover that conspiracy. And of course some help from Russian hackers was required when they released emails from the main conspirators. And yet they are still millions that believe that humans caused Global Warming (AGW). Prior to AGW, the previous most successful conspiracy run by the government was the Ozone Hole Scare. Completely bogus. The suns UV output controlled the ozone density. We know that now, but that conspiracy was successful for the government).

The problem with determining the amount of radiation released by Fukushima and comparing it to Chernobyl is that most of the radiation from Fukushima is bound up in liquid. The oceans and the storage tanks for cooling water. We have no idea what those levels have been in total. Also, the release is still occurring and will continue to occur for many years. Three complete meltdowns occurred at Fukushima, and the media seems obsessed with one of the reactors that did not meltdown (#4).

[Wayne07]

Look at it this way, between 1951 and 1962, 100 above ground nuclear tests were conducted in Nevada, and we survived..