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Time to stop nuke hysteria. Media obsessing over reactors that will probably not kill anyone.
Herald Sun ^
| 03/15/2011
| Andrew Bolt
Posted on 03/15/2011 1:35:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: diamond6
I don’t know for this particular thing yet, but I would say certainly for your emergency preparedness kits, you bet.
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:15:22 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: SeekAndFind
No, the media is instead obsessing over a nuclear reactor that has killed no one and probably never will. Punched Charlie Sheen's ticket, though.
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:16:06 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: justa-hairyape
This is kind of what they were worried about, the spent fuel pools need to also be kept cool by pumped water and the difference is that they aren’t in a containment vessel.
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:16:54 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Wow that should make her lose her job right there. CBS ought to be embarrassed that much.
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:18:10 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: justa-hairyape
From your link, I gather: Very high levels are not being emitted from #4, but if the water level drops through boiling off and if they can’t get more water on the rods, there could be very high consequences.
What did you get from it?
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:23:06 PM PDT
by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: buzzer
Your wrong. I’m sure it was more than 14 billion that died from Chernobyl.
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:23:28 PM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Social Justice is the epitome of injustice.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
RE: I trust Katie.
I’m surprised she never used the words “Climate Change” or (the now discarded) “Global Warming”. Those words have been used to put blame ANY NATURAL DISASTER.
To: Wuli
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:24:51 PM PDT
by
ReverendJames
(Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)
To: diogenes ghost
RE: Holy crap!!! Quit watching horror movies.
After so many responses to buzzer and after re-reading his post, I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. He probably forgot to mention that he was being factious.
To: SeekAndFind
I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t though.
There is on Freeper on who is absolutely nuts about all this.
Can’t remember his name right at the moment, but he/she is definitely besides themselves over this.
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:29:07 PM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: Bigh4u2
“There is on Freeper on who is absolutely nuts about all this.”
Should have said:
There is ONE Freeper...
Typing faster than I can think...
:0)
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:30:20 PM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: Secret Agent Man
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:30:27 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: SeekAndFind
I was being hyperbolic.
Fake but accurate.
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:30:58 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: VRWCTexan
Sadly it would appear likely that all 50 are (or soon will be) way over exposed before ever being allowed to leave?
I would not be surprised if most of these brave 50 are dead within weeks.
Enough! These brave men are in far more danger from the explosions and fires then from radiation. So far the highest level of radiation exposure has been 1.015mSv. Now, very few people understand the meaning of a millisievert, so let's put it into a term you can understand.
That's about 30 BED.
What's a BED? That the "Banana Equivalent Dose" or the amount of radiation you'd get from eating a banana, as they concentrate Potassium, including the radioactive Potassium-40 isotope.
So, so far the worst dose has been the same as eating 30 bananas. The current "highly elevated" readings at the plant are 2 BED. That's right, the same as eating 2 bananas.
Lifetime (actually 5 year) allowance for a nuclear plant worker is about 15,000 BED.
No one at the plant is going to die from radiation, unless something else goes horribly wrong at this point. Even the fire in the holding pool only released about a 27 BED dose. Even then, TEPCO is rotating workers in and out of the area on 4-6 hour shifts to reduce even the low exposure time. Although it's just as likely to be to reduce the likelihood of stress exhaustion.
Please - please - please - stop the hysteria!
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:38:04 PM PDT
by
jnaujok
(Charter member of the vast, right-wing conspiracy.)
To: Bigh4u2
It's only enriched to about 4% for boiling water reactors. Not the 90-odd-something precent needed to create a nuclear weapon.
Not that 4% is child's play, but again, it's not the end of the world.
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:46:45 PM PDT
by
erikm88
To: SeekAndFind
That chart is wrong. Nuclear is 20% of US power generation.
To: SeekAndFind
“Time to stop nuke hysteria. Media obsessing over reactors that will probably not kill anyone. “
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Nuke hysteria?
So...then, I suppose we will start seeing all the bs about “nuke-denial, etc.”
it never ends...
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:50:26 PM PDT
by
gunnyg
("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
To: buccaneer81
That chart is wrong. Nuclear is 20% of US power generation. I think that chart (Energy Sources in the U.S.) includes all energy, including vehicles like cars, trucks, aircraft, etc.
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:51:14 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: D-fendr
Just got back from Lowes. Now have 5 rolls of Duct Tape. About what I would need. Not hoarding. Also picked up a bucket of stuff called DP 1030 Water Based Duct Sealant. Thousands of Japanese have been told to shelter in place. Whether or not this Radiation causes problems for the west coast, we have at least 2 Nuclear Reactors right on the Pacific Coastline. So I just added that stuff to my normal preparedness stash. Just being prudent. No one can accurately predict where this event will end up. And anyone that claims this will NOT be a problem or that this WILL be a problem, really is just guessing at this point in time. But check out this recent article.
Fukushima nuke plant situation 'worsened considerably': think tank
To: SeekAndFind
10,000 can die from a tsunami that lays waster to vast coastal areas and it's bad news but if even one person is injured by radiation it's a “nuclear disaster” of potentially epic proportions that may never end, millions of possible fatalities, yada yada.
Now all that is needed are the crockumentaries on “What Went Wrong? and How Soon will Your Bone Marrow Rot?”
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posted on
03/15/2011 2:54:25 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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