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FYI... I’m worried out guys our going to get radiation. The government of Japan has proven they cannot be trusted. They have not been honest about the nuclear reactors. Perhaps to prevent panic? Nevertheless, the situation has gone from bad to worst. They need to quit B.S. the public.

I hope our guys are not like the Chernobayl guys that went into the area to put out the fire and rescue people. Most of them are dead or dying off. After all the only thing that stops radiation is Led.

Did you see after that one reactor blew up (notice they always show it to you from a good distance distance)the plume is blowing out to sea and it looks like we may get it. Should know for sure in a few days. Heard that reactor is thousand feet tall so we watched radio active Isotopes blow a thousand feet into the air when they got too hot. No one can get close to the reactor, but I heard on Drudge that radiation readings were one thousand times higher.

The only B.S. spouted it coming from you. Grabbed your chicken little suit and toil foil hat for this event, did you?

This is not Chernobyl: different design, these reactors have cooling problems after auto-shutdown, etc. The correct spelling is "lead." You have no evidence Japan is being dishonest about the reactors. It was a containment building, not a reactor, that exploded. In fact it's been two of them, caused by hydrogen gas. That "one thousand times higher" was early on, not sustained, and was equivalent to a years exposure in 24 hrs.

After all the only thing that stops radiation is Lead.

Actually polystyrene does a fairly good job, and unlike metals it doesn't become radioactive itself. But you need lots of it, we are talking meters of shielding here. Water works too, and also doesn't have problems with secondary radioactivity. Seawater picks up radioactivity because of dissolved minerals, but is still good at blocking the radiation. Two meters of concrete will stop it quite nicely. It is just hard to carry that much material around with you.