Posted on 03/12/2011 12:02:10 AM PST by rawhide
Just in:
Explosion at Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi plant heard around 0630 GMT
NHK footage shows steam-like smoke coming from Tepco's Fukushima plant
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Just heard one if the talking heads on fox news say they have190 people surrounding the plant showing signs of radiation sickness. If this is true the problem is MUCH larger than japan is letting on. It would take a large dose of radiation to produce symptoms this early. Anything giving symptoms this early will be uniformly fatal and would take significAntly more than a smll release of steam.....
I am very sceptical this is true and have not found any other info to back it up. Has anyone else heard anything?
Am told one of Japans formost ideas is NOT to alarm the public..all must be calm in the face of danger. Likely they will not report the facts until after the fact...time will tell...as one Freeper said watch what they do not what they say...they distrrubted iodine pills which says allot.
They just can’t catch a break.
They’re as bad as the soviets. I’d get off the island or downwind, now.
See #701. Any thoughts?
This was one offhand remark by a reporter but if true may be the most significant piece of info yet
Nope.
Risk?
Chernobyl, which was a stone-age design with no containment managed by incompetent bureaucrats, is estimated to have produced 17,000 excess cancer deaths above the expected 123 million deaths in the affected population, and wildlife is thriving in the exclusion zone.
Civilized life comes with risk. When you are in a non-totalitarian society, you can take steps to minimize that risk such as designing reactors that produce less and less heat the hotter they get.
In the wake of the Chicago Fire of 1871, would it have been argued that using fire wasn’t worth the risk? Probably. But instead they took steps to correct the problems, and Chicago’s electrical and fire codes are some of the most stringent in the world.
Far more deadly and disastrous incidents than this reactor pepper the annals of history - in Bhopal thousands of people died for the sake of rubber, glue, or pesticides. People are sickening and dying right now in China from the toxic waste products from solar panel production, and millions are being displaced, their homed destroyed, for the sake of hydro power. But no one is yet reported to have died at this reactor from nuclear effects, as far as I know.
The uranium and thorium in fly ash left over from burning coal contains more energy potential than the coal that was burned to produce it.
If our human civilization is to prosper for the next 100,000 years or more; if we are to feed, clothe, and shelter all of humanity, then the virtually unlimited energy available from splitting atoms will continue to be a part of our civilization, just as fire has been for hundreds of thousands of years.
That's evident by all of your panicky posts on this thread.
As long as you insist upon doing the "oh noes!" dance, you might want to get upwind of the disaster - not downwind.
According to the OH NOES! where I live in Alaska we will get the heaviest radiation amount.
I think I will go out and do some looting!
I stopped reading the forums when all they are trying to do is to create panic, and some people are so fanatically misguided I swear they are heading out to hijack shipment of iodide pills, and then they will probably overdose on them.
Got to love America with its multicultural fanaticism’s.
I agree
I told my husband the highest death toll from the nuclear fallout will be those that panic and take unsafe amounts or preparations of iodine.
However, the remark about 190 people with radiation sickness did catch my attention. If this is true it is highly significant. I would love to find out if this is true or not
Even with a significant release, I would think your biggest problem in Alaska will be routine spring flooding from snowmelt due to the cyclical global warming called spring!
You are being a totally ignorant asshole, Tolsti2.
I hear ya. I had to take a nap for couple hours after the all nighter.
People are apparently getting sick from it right now. If that’s the case, they probably got a lethal dose.
This is potential as severe of a fallout scenario as anything from Protect and Survive.
Radiation sickness symptoms: Dizziness, lightheadedness, nausea.
Panic attack symptoms: Dizziness, lightheadedness, nausea.
When Chernobyl did its thing we did get some very faint effects, but it was way up high in the jet stream.
We don’t have a whole lot of snow nor thick ice, and the spring time breakup is dragged out longer than it was 15 years ago. We used to go suddenly from minus zero temps one week to 50F days in a week and stay like that, instead its a longer slower and earlier trend, usually breakup has been after mid april, recently it has been earlier.
I remember those from the movie "Threads". That movie still gives me nightmares.
True, you won’t see the real effects until the teeth and hair start shedding. Puking and so on can be from stress.
Well, the blood tests will start showing things early.
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I don’t know about the two of you but I came onto this thread to find information and analysis of what I consider to be a serious event rather than for spell checking. The fact the latter is more important to some than the veracity of posters’ information speaks volumes of this thread’s credulity and worth.
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