I think most people are not panicked and I’m certainly not but frankly I wouldn’t make fun of the poster who put up the link to the radiation monitoring instrument. I’m guessing a lot of folks went there and took a quick look. I did.
Apparently just a little while ago the CEO of the Japanese electric company broke down in tears on TV and said the severity of the crisis at the Fukishimo Nuclear plant is way worse that they were reporting. Now there is the possibility that they will have to try to dump cement on it like Chernobyl. So actually none of us really know what the possibilities are. Hopefully everythng will be OK.
Not making fun of the link; at least that was not my intention.
Just trying to point out the actual risks right now; from what we know; are essentially 0 for people in the US.
We have all of this instant information now at our fingertips that we never used to have.
In some ways it seems people are almost more uninformed about facts and science than they used to be (pre internet).
People can put all kinds of wild ideas (speculation with no facts) on the web; and people eat it up.
People need to seek facts and science when they hear things.
The Gulf oil spill brought up all kinds of wild ideas and conspiracy theories. Some from people on this forum.
Those all turned out to be false of course.