Posted on 03/15/2011 3:03:47 PM PDT by library user
Yeah, that’s more accurate too.
Such fear mongering is heartless, given the greater situation there: there may have been a few hundred thousand killed by the tsunami. Bodies are washing up, being pulling in parts out of rubble, The Japanese could use extraordinary support from us now — we could send another carrier or two, and a lot more emergency stuff. Why aren’t we? Because the idiot commander-boy is lost in nana-land.
http://neutroneconomy.blogspot.com/
Why not hear it directly from nuclear physicists?
continued ... And because we are gawking at the nuke plant stuff and promoting panic and fear. Absolutely disabling emotions!
What will happen to the other 3 plants at Fukushima if they have to completely evacuate all operating personnel from the complex? At least at Chernobyl they only had one reactor to contend with.
Think tank my ass.
This outfit has more in common with a septic tank.
Just a bunch of lefties with an agenda.
If they have to do a Chernobyl the amount of material (concrete and sand) required is immense. I don't even know if the logitstics are there to do it.
What a mess.
Thanks for your calibration of the source of this article.
rom Reuters again (March 15, 2011, 7:20 PM) :
Radiation poses only slight risk to nervous Tokyo: U.S. experts
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-japan-quake-health-idUSTRE72E9DL20110315
EXCERPT
Dozens of workers battling to control radiation at Japan’s stricken reactors face a far greater risk of developing cancer than normal, but Tokyo residents are within the safe range for exposure, U.S. nuclear experts said.
Radiation levels in Tokyo, one of the world’s most populous cities, rose 10 times above average Tuesday evening, spreading fear among many of the 33 million residents in the metropolitan area.
The best advice experts could give them was to stay indoors, close the windows and avoid breathing bad air — steps very similar to those for handling a smog alert or avoiding influenza.
While these steps may sound inconsequential, experts said the danger in Tokyo, while worrisome, is slight - at least for now.
“Everything I’ve seen so far suggests there have been nominal amounts of material released. Therefore, the risks are generally low to the population,” Jerrold Bushberg, who directs programs in health physics at the University of California at Davis, said in a telephone interview.
“There may be more significant risks for emergency workers on site. They are dealing with the occupational exposure, but not for the population at large.”
Fresh explosions Tuesday at the Fukushima plant, 180 miles north of Tokyo, released low levels of radiation, escalating a crisis triggered by last week’s massive earthquake and tsunami. With cooling systems knocked out, the fear is more blasts within the reactors at the complex could eventually cause a major radiation leak.
The levels measured around Tokyo at one point were 40 times above normal but have receded to 10 times. That amounts to roughly the same dose as a chest or abdominal CT scan.
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Reactor #2 is an MOX reactor...that means not just uranium but plutonium and all the ugly “stepchildren”.
Except the International Atomic Energy Agency disagrees with you, saying:
"One of the key considerations in developing the criteria for the INES scale rating was to ensure that the significance level of less severe and more localized events were clearly separated from this severe accident. Thus the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is rated at Level 5 on INES, while an event resulting in a single death from radiation is rated at Level 4."
Dear Dan Nunn,
Please tell us in that paragraph of two long sentences, or in the linked explanation, using your own simple words of clear exposition what exactly was the reason the MIGHTY SUPERBEING IAES or its functionaries of sub-deities gave for rating TMI a 5, when an event with an actual death from radiation rated a 4?
Respectfully so,
—Your fellow, Freeper Maximus bvw
The very next paragraph of the article that you didn't read explains this:
"INES is intended to be applicable for all events, the vast majority of which relate to failures in equipment or procedures. Whilst many such events do not result in any actual consequences for individuals, it is recognized that some are of greater safety significance than others. If all such events were rated at Level 0, the scale would be of no value. Thus, it was agreed at its original inception that INES needed to cover not only actual consequences but also potential consequences."
You have NO ABILITY to distill information and present it in your own simple words? I realize that few do. Especially today in our age of cut and paste.
Yet I can and will do so. Why did the MIGHTY SUPERBEINGS of the IAES rate TMI a 5 rather than the 4 — at worst — it deserved based on their own fact-based standards? Because they allowed their standards to incorporate IMAGINATION They use the phrase “potential consequences”. Wonderful!
In other words they ruled TMI a 5 because of politics. They imagine the situation was worse than it was, because their politics are that of emotionalism against the US. Envy, jealousy and hatred.
I suppose I am to listen to you, OH EDUCATED ONE WHO CAN FORMULATE YOUR OWN WORDS, rather than the number of organizations that have rated TMI a 5. Nevermind the fact that your theory - and that’s what it is, a simple-minded theory - is self-defeating. Why would a nuclear agency wish to create a fear around nuclear power, thus defeating the industry which they work in? I’m sure your tinfoil hat may be able to dial in a broadcast which will let us know.
But what do I know, I’m not a nuclear physicist like yourself. I realize that most aren’t as smart as you, so I’ll defer the last word to you and your self-proclaimed brilliance.
Time will tell what it will.
I’ll address quickly your comment as to “why they would create an atmosphere of fear, being as it is the industry they work in”. Fear sells, fear caries a very high mark up.
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