I take it you have no scientific or engineering background.
Ah...the last retreat of the apologist - ‘credentials’. I am not an engineer but because of sites like es-skf.blogspot.com and physicsforum etc. I know that the circumstances surrounding the disaster are different.
I was thinking after my last post that the Japanese performance re nuke response may really be worse than that of the Soviets because the Japanese had the Soviet example to study. The Soviets rued the fact that they tried to keep people calm instead of training them in advance how to respond in various reactor scenarios. They rued the fact that they told the nearby town that all was well while the reactor smoked until they did the math and figured out that the townspeople would all receive a lethal does in two weeks if not evacuated. With the history of Chernobyl, why did the Japanese resist enlarging the exclusion zone despite international calls to do so? Why have a SPEEDI warning system and then decide to withhold the information from citizens when something bad happens? Soviets tried to conceal the extent of the disaster and it didn’t work. The Japanese couldn’t possibly have examined the terrain sufficiently when they were assuring everyone that everything was under control. Even now, they engage in Kubuki theatre as if 3 core melt downs and instability of fuel pools is ‘under control’? The Soviets lost power and were dragged before the people in court where they were forced to admit to their lies re the disaster. Does Japan think that they can put a polyester cover over the public? Japan says Tokyo is not contaminated - foreign scientists test and find hotspots - now Japan will test.
According to Dr. Shunichi Yamashita, who’s at the Atomic Bomb Research Institute, pregnant women are safe from radioactive concerns and even 100mvert per year would be harmless to their fetus and
“Effects of radiation do not come to people that are happy… They come to people that are weak-spirited”
See, I think if he’s not telling the truth (women who have babies with birth defects related to this radiation contamination are ‘weak spirited’), the gov should step in and provide pregnant mothers with accurate information. Unless, of course the government condones this kind of misinformation.
PS: Oh I do have a degree in Biology and spent time working as a field biologist so I do have a ‘science background’. You know, most of the apologists who said all was well from the very beginning, and demanded credentials, are awfully quiet these days.
So only people who work in nuke plants etc are worthy of having a viable opinion. All the rest of us should shut up and eat Fukushima produce.
Okay.