Where is the “Just Damn” guy when you need him?
Radiation levels in the U.S., particularly on the west coast, will continue to gradually increase so long as the Fukishima plant keeps spewing out radiation.
I thought this crisis had already been rated a 6.
At any rate they need to entomb those reactors in concrete ASAP.
Only one more point to go after that - to full disaster.
Anyone pooh poohing any detrimental radiation to our shores - How many days/weeks of even low level radiation accumulation on a 24 hour per basis before someone says WTF?
We hear about- ‘no more that a dental xray, etc...but would you want to have that dental xray 24 hrs a day, day in and day out? What does it accumulate too? Which KINDS of radiation are escaping?
BTW, Chernobyl evacuated a 19 mile radius the 2nd day.
Why is here no hint or demand to cap these things? Stop fiddling around trying to save their precious plants - over the safety of people.
Japan Cows Barred From Grazing as Damaged Plant Leaks Radiation:
Much ado about nothing.
They still don’t know where the water came from, and they don’t think the water from the reactor itself could have gotten to where they think the workers were; other speculation is that this was contaminated by the spent fuel pool.
Still adds complexity, because they have to collect this water (which from one source has 3.9 million of some measurement I didn’t recognize, compared to 3.1 in the seawater — a million times more). They have to filter it, clean out the radiation, and then handle the radioactive waste. They obviously can’t let open pools of highly contaminated water sit around.
Cue the “radiation is good for you” contingent.
“Japan reactor core may be leaking radioactive material, official says”
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/25/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html