Posted on 03/12/2011 4:17:41 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
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It's not nit picking. FReepers should be smart enough to totally discount sources that don't even know the difference between contamination and radiation (contamination is the poo, radiation is the odor, to put is very simply).
Pointless speculation about something that has not happened and is not likely to happen.
Seems that the real fallout danger would be from radioactive dust and smoke etc. It doesn’t appear that a great deal of them are being produced at this point.
We set off 16 nuclear bombs on Bikini Atoll and the last time I looked there are still people living on the planet.
“If Serious Radiation Link in Japan, Which Way Would Prevailing Winds Take the Radiation?”
Chicago?
Something tells me the near future may not be a good time to fly.
A listing of above ground nuclear detonations. (These actually did throw a lot of radioactive dust into the air)
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/atest00.html
This reminds me of the old joke in which you ask "if a plane crashed exactly on the Canada-US border, where would you bury the survivors?"
I remember my mom would wait to make snow-cream out of freshly fallen snow until she heard word on the radio that it did not contain radioactive fallout.
Because even Chernobyl dissipated by the time it reached France (probably 1/2 the distance from Japan to Hawaii).
Our bombs were/are clean bombs. Nothing to worry about.
Didn’t everyone get the memo?
Besides, having that extra arm means there is no spot I can’t scratch.
Not at all. According to Wikipedia, "The plume drifted over large parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Northern Europe. Large areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia had to be evacuated, with over 336,000 people resettled. " I had relatives living in Europe at the time, so I remember it well.
YIKES!!! Well that goes to show you how good my memory is. That’s a pretty huge area. I vaguely remember something about the elk population or reindeer maybe? Either being wiped out in an area or unfit to eat.
Crescent City, CA...according to jet-stream maps I looked at yesterday.
Seriously, probably not a huge threat as the Japanese type of reactor is different from the graphite-modulated type at Chernobyl.
Obviously, any arriving radioactive stuff wouldn’t exactly do us any GOOD either.
This is the best site I’ve seen on Chernobal. A girl on a motorcycle goes through the area and takes pictures and explains them. Long trip and lots of pics.
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter47.html
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