Posted on 03/18/2011 10:18:43 AM PDT by Scythian
The boss of the company behind the devastated Japanese nuclear reactor today broke down in tears - as his country finally acknowledged the radiation spewing from the over-heating reactors and fuel rods was enough to kill some citizens
'In hindsight, we could have moved a little quicker in assessing the situation and coordinating all that information and provided it faster.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It is awfully easy to be the Monday morning QB.
8h battery power is not long in the event of a devastating grid disconnect. Normally this is more than enough time, but obviously not in this unusual case.
And they can’t take many actions that are very low-risk because even a slight bit of release and people go bananas over the trace radioactivity (pun intended). For example, how do you unflood an area without being able to remove water? How do you relieve air pressure in an area without venting?
They were trying to act in an environment where good engineering practices were being dampened by lay opinion.
As always, the only people who were able to show up on scene ready to help were those evil militarists of the US Navy.
RE: “I have a feeling obama won’t return to the U.s. for several weeks, instead jetting here and there, as far away from the radiation which he claims “is no danger to the U.S.”
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I’m with you! Hearing of Zero’s travel plans immediately made me think of the radiation situation we face right now. His departure time from DC is perfect...
See post #48.
"Where does that 400,000 figure come from? Sounds like a heck of a lot of bodies to hide."It did not happen overnight. Large areas of Belarus and Ukraine and some parts Russia were affected. In the decades that followed, and in the post-soviet breakup it was pretty hard to keep tabs. The Soviet govt was always secretive about everything and often they told doctors to not report nuclear related causes of death, this practice dates back to their 50's nuclear tests. http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Chernobyl-Zhores-Medvedev/dp/0393308146/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1300486488&sr=1-2-fkmr1
Ya mean the west coast in your mind...
Please keep in mind that I am not denying that the death count is that high, I just never heard it before.
‘Look globally about the a future asteroid impact Earth will have.’
You seem to be saying that all construction on Earth should be able to withstand a meteor impact. People simply do not prepare for events of extremely low probability.
She said and I don’t remember which one it was that the government could not admit that a disaster that size could happen. We did not have 24/7 news and we sure did not have the Internet. Did you see the map of how the damage was spread? Amazing. There would be a small area where there was no radiation and right next to it would be some of the very worst exposure. I thought one thing she said was very sad and that was that the world did not know about it and the people who could tell the story had died. I must admit that I knew about Chernobyl but that was it. I had forgotten where it was located. She also said something to like that even the people living could not tell anyone because it was not talked about. I really admire her.
“You mean that after a Quake and Tsunami that probably already killed more than 20,000 people, a couple more may die of radiation poisoning?”
The radiation leak was man made and avoidable. What’s a human life worth ?
Right. I have Graves Disease (extreme hyper-thyroid), so I can't take it. However, the medication for Graves partially blocks iodine uptake by the thyroid anyway, so I can just get my doctor to increase my prescription strength for a bit.
Remember Japan was hit by a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, there is no telling where one could get contaminated. I would think it far more likely to come from a medical source.
Just consider how high the MSM and Democrat politician unemployment rates would be if Americans had any ability at all to judge relative risk.
Not only didn't happen overnight it didn't happen at all. There has been numerous studies by all kind of health organizations. It was a very bad event and many areas are still contaminated and will be for a long time so you don't need to make up numbers.
“know it’s easy to be a Monday morning quarterback”
Yes, it is. Great 20/20 hindsight, but we have a situation where 10s of thousands of people have died from being too close to the sea. .... and ZERO have died from having a nuke plant too close to the sea.
This plant was rated to withstand a 8.2 quake, and instead got hit with the 5th largest quake in history, 8.9/9.0. OK, so up the rating on that.
nuke plant deaths = 0
tidal wave deaths = 50,000
which is bigger?
Using your analysis, to be prudent we shouldnt just move nuke plants, we should evacuate EVERYONE near the coast line .... are uyou up for moving Florida?
Your information is correct. I have read and watched many videos regarding Chernobyl. People here should watch those and learn. Youtube hass lots. Just type in Chernobyl. Devastating stuff.
Normal dosage from background radiation is 2-3 millisievert annually: a chest CT scan delivers 7 millisievert. The highest radiation level detected anywhere beyond the site was a single brief reading of 0.17 millisievert at the boundary of the evacuation zone, but on average readings at the zone boundary are hardly above background.From the same article:
Occasional brief readings of slightly heightened radiation – occasionally reported in scaremongering fashion as "10x normal" – have been detected as far afield as the outskirts of Tokyo, but these are insignificant in a health context. Even if they persisted unbroken for a year, local dosages at such a level would be no more than powerplant workers are allowed in normal times: and nuclear powerplant workers' cancer rate is actually lower than in the general population. Measurable blips in background radiation may be detectable around the world in coming weeks, and will no doubt be heavily reported on, but they will be more insignificant still.
The renowned US nuclear engineer Ted Rockwell, who quite literally wrote the book on reactor safety, has harsh words for this position. He writes:[Consider] the Three Mile Island (TMI) incident, where 10 to 20 tons of the nuclear reactor melted down, slumped to the bottom of the reactor vessel, and initiated the dreaded China Syndrome, where the reactor core melts and burns its way into the earth ... In the real world, the molten mass froze when it hit the colder reactor vessel, and stopped its downward journey at five-eights of an inch through the five-inch thick vessel wall.
And there was no harm to people or the environment. None.
Yet in Japan, you have radiation zealots threatening to order people out of their homes, to wander, homeless and panic-stricken, through the battered countryside, to do what? All to avoid a radiation dose lower than what they would get from a ski trip.
Technically it’s not so much the meat or milk but what the animals feed on that is contaminated which in turn is digested by them and then by you. It’s the fallout that ends up on the ground contaminating the food change that is a great risk besides a person inhaling a hot spec. So hold your breath and don’t eat because you know what they say, “Living healthy is just the longest possible way of dying.”
“Living healthy is just the longest possible way of dying.”
And a pitiful existance.LOL
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