>Who is downwind of Japan?
>Hawaii. The West Coast.
>Wonderful.
What relatively little steam is release would be dispersed ove thousands of miles and would register about
the same radiation as a smoke detector sensor.
Better that than to have it blow locally in concentration.
Have they resolved the electrical systems to execute the venting? Last update I read...they wanted to vent, but could not due to electrical problems.
[UPDATE: 5:46 PM EST: Japanese authorities announced that radiation inside the stricken Fukushima power plant control room has risen to 1,000 times its normal level. Some has leaked outside of the plant, prompting calls for further evacuations beyond the 3,000 people who have been cleared out already in a 1.8-mi. radius.
***Additionally, the planned release of radioactive steam to bleed off pressure has been delayed due to a failure in the electrical systems required to execute the venting.]
Not worried about a little steam, but something more catastrophic instead. Here’s hoping that they have things under control.
You are right about that. This sort of thing was what had the seventies and eighties “environmentalists” worried. - I never marched, but did have questions about nuclear power plants. -
Trouble was, back then, the nuclear industry sent out sexy-looking teeny bopper female “reps” who just pooh-poohed any questions about storage, etc. and condescended to us. (We had one of the “reps” in our family. She still doesn’t like me because I had questions at the time.)
If they’d have sent out middle aged scientists giving demonstrations explaining more about storage and answering questions respectfully, we’d probably have more nuclear power plants here now. (With this latest one in Japan, I’m still wary.)