Posted on 04/11/2011 1:30:40 PM PDT by TennesseeProfessor
A perfect 10!
More fear mongering, everything is just fine. (sarc)
I’d guess at this point, the Japanese people have likely lost whatever trust they had with their government. Seems to be a trend.
Fukushima evacuation zone expanded
And the total radiation exposure over time to the land apes is not looking good.
S T O P ~ L Y I N" ~ T O ~ U S ! !
What happened to six??????
It’s been a six but they didn’t want to admit it.
terabecquerels is that like a pterodactyl???
10000 TBq is 270,270 curies. Per hour.
If that is correct, then this accident is SEVERAL orders of magnitude worse than originally reported.
We don’t even have many of the kind of hand-held instruments you’d need for that sort of radiation field. GM tubes are useless at that range. You’d need something from the Cold War like the CDV-715.
I can’t even compute in my mind how far the hot zone (2 Mr line) would extend from that if it were a point source. I guess we’d have to operate from Okinawa.
Incidently, we 15 days from the 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl: April 26, 1986.
15 days and counting...
The meaning of the word Chernoybl needs to be posted in a Christian Forum on Freerepublic.com, as 2000 years ago there was not word for radiation or radiation poisoning.
The English meaning of Chernobyl (mugroot or wild wormwood) is short of found in the last book of the Bible. And it is about a form of poisoning (making things bitter).
and yet many here called everything under the sun when we knew the japanese were lying through their teeth about the danger level.
Not surprised. The lid probably came off when those behind the scenes started leaking the truth and were seen leaving on extended vacations.
The long term implications depend greatly on the isotopes involved. Iodine 131 decays very rapidly. It has a very high specific activity, which means it is extremely radioactive, but that also gives it a short half-life of just over 8 days.
As a function of math, on day 72 the radiation is 1/512 that it was on day 1. But, if it is a heavier isotope, like Cesium 137 or Strontium 90, then the half-life is 37 years or 29 years, respectively. It will hang around the environment a lot longer. Plus, Sr-90 is a ‘bone-seeker’. Its chemistry mimics that of calcium (it’s right under Ca in the periodic table). The body doesn’t distinguish between them.
Cesium is like sodium. The body will eventually excrete it but it takes a long time. Meanwhile, it is radiating tissues. Sometimes it can be help along by administration of Prussian Blue but still very bad nonetheless.
Hey, RC,—looks like you and I were right, and all the “experts” were wrong!
I just want to know if the Japanese have finally dropped their damned “we can do it all ourselves” mentality on this and finally accepted the offered international aid? If they are still being stubborn as always, then they can raise the INES level to 700 and it won’t make things any better.
1. The government of Japan does not evaluate or set the INES level. That is done by the IAEA. They have as much authority to change the INES level as Greenpeace does.
2. The accident doesn’t rise to the severity of a Level 7 event:
“Major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasures”
The only event that rose to this level was Chernobyl, which had 56 immediate radiation deaths and maybe as many as 4000 additional deaths from the delayed affects of cancer.
3. A becquerel (Bq) is the activity of ONE decaying nucleus per second. It is an extremely tiny amount. A terabecquerel is 1,000,000,000,000 Bq. Sounds like a big number, huh? Well an 8oz cup of water contains 7,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules.
4. There was one Level 6 event in history - in 1957, a Soviet nuclear waste processing facility exploded and release 70 tons of radioactive material into the environment.
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At present, the Fukushima event has produced ZERO immediate deaths from radiation and the largest dose received by anyone is well under 25 rem (which may increase an individuals rate of cancer by 2%). The amount of radioactivity released is way less than what would happen in either a Level 6 or 7 event.
Question for more knowledgeable FReepers - I saw where there is virtually an island size mass of junk from stuff washed out to sea from the tsunami that’s floating towards our west coast. My question is what is the likelihood that the island size mass of junk includes some level of radioactivity from portions of the nuclear plant that washed washed away by the tsunami? Is that a possible concern?
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