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To: ex-Texan
Your linked report will be trashed by the pro nuke people here. So good luck with that. The dirty little secret however, is that the major governments of the world have decided to downplay the Fukushima hazards, simply because it would absolutely crash the world economy, if the truth be told. This has been discovered by FOIA requests. So don't expect the government to acknowledge any of these hazards. At least until the world economy does crash and they need additional justifications to implement marshal law and draconian totalitarian restrictions on movement. IMHO.
5 posted on 06/05/2012 9:00:27 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape; TheRhinelander; KoRn; All
Do you people eat any tuna caught in the Pacific Ocean ___? Do you actually think any canned tuna is safe __ ? Good luck with that too . . .

Another excerpt from above:

“The greatest human experiment with radiation exposure is taking place in the Ukraine and Byelorussia, where much of the 50 million curies the Soviet government says were released by the 1986 accident at Chernobyl is being felt… Chernobyl legacy could include hundreds of thousands of additional cancer deaths… Current estimates predict anything from 14,000 to 475,500 deaths worldwide from Chernobyl.” (A curie measures the intensity of radiation and is equal to 37 billion disintegrations per second. As a reference point, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs released an estimated one million curies.)

If we translate what the New York Times is saying in terms of radiation released in the first 20 days, 900,000 terabecquerels translates into 27 million curies. It is over a year later and no one knows or is saying how much aggregate radiation has been released but we can imagine it’s a staggering amount.

One curie is the amount of radiation equal to the disintegration of 37 billion atoms—37 billion becquerels—per second. It is a very large amount of radiation. We multiply these amounts (27 million curies times 37 billion radioactive atoms) and we are back to just a little more than our 900,000 terabecquerels… all the way up to 999,000,000,000,000,000 becquerels, which translates into 999,000,000,000,000,000 nuclear particles decaying in the first 20 days of the Fukushima nuclear nightmare.

TEPCO has reported on what happens when it opens doors in Fukushima. An estimated 1.6 billion becquerels of radioactive materials were released, compared with 500 million becquerels when the double doors of the building of reactor No. 1 were opened one day in May.

So let’s go back to Belarus where the average level of contamination on the polluted territories was 37Ci/km2 and the maximum safe limit for residency is 5Ci/km2. We had 27 million curies released in the first 20 days and that would contaminate an area of approximately five million square kilometers if distributed equally. Of course that never happens as we can see in the fallout patterns surrounding Chernobyl. It can be assumed that the worst of the radiation was released in the first month with the complete meltdown of multiple reactor cores and the destruction and probably vaporization of spent-fuel rods.

Radioactive News

Health authorities continue to insist that there are no health risks involved, but The Huffington Post tells us that bluefin tuna caught in California last August showed radiation levels that were ten times the norm, according to a new paper from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. Scientists believe that the radiation—in the form of the isotopes caesium-137 and caesium-134—came from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster that began in March of 2011.

In addition, radioactive debris is already being found on West Coast shores as far as Washington State and is expected to continue to be washed up in the next three years.


10 posted on 06/05/2012 9:15:42 PM PDT by ex-Texan (Ecclesiastes 5:10 - 20)
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To: justa-hairyape
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...

11 posted on 06/05/2012 9:16:12 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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