Those very brave people risked their lives to record radiation live on the scene in a "safe area" 35 KM away from Fukushima. And you call them "hysterical hippies and peaceniks . . . " The Geiger Counter clearly showed radiation FAR above safe limits.
Your ignorance is reflecting Ann Coulter's:
Video: Ann Coulter Says Radiation Is Good For You
LOL LOL !
To a someone like you, nothing but running around like a chicken without a head will satisfy. Since I don’t do such things, nearly everything I do will be a disappointment to you.
Let’s talk a bit about instruments and measurements:
The first things I wondered upon watching Greenpeace’s bit of science theater: What is their instrument, make, model, etc? Who calibrated their instrument? When was that calibration done? To what reference? Do they have experience in running a Geiger counter? Do they have it on the correct setting? Are they taking these readings at a consistent height above the object/surface or terrain they’re measuring? Do they call out which nuclides are giving off these readings they’re taking? All unanswered questions I have.
See, I’ve actually worked in a lab where I calibrated electronic instruments. They *can* be wrong, sometimes wildly so. The only way you know you can trust them is to calibrate them to a known reference. In our lab, we had references of electronic standard quantities that were calibrated every year to references and protocols controlled by what used to be called the National Bureau of Standards, now “NIST.” The calibration standard we had in our lab cost 10’s of thousands of dollars, and once set up, was never moved except for being sent out to be calibrated and checked itself.
The instruments that we calibrated with that standard cost only hundreds to low thousands of dollars. It was a rare electronic instrument that was dead-on after a year of use. Many of them would be within tolerances, a significant proportion would not be within tolerances, especially anything portable.
Lest you think that my thoughts are heresy, here’s a little write-up that you might want to read and process:
http://www.fireworld.com/ifw_articles/geiger_0108.php
As for Coulter: She’s another goddamn lawyer with a liberal arts degree: useless on technical topics, just as they all are, regardless of political preference.