Posted on 03/14/2011 2:11:19 AM PDT by buccaneer81
USS Ronald Reagan Moved After Detecting Radioactive Plume Off Japan Ship's Crew Was Exposed to Low Level of Radiation
By LUIS MARTINEZ March 14, 2011
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and other US Navy ships in the waters off the quake zone in eastern Japan were repositioned after the detection of a low-level radiation plume from the troubled Fukushima nuclear plant located 100 miles away.
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You are acting like an idiot. First of all, how is it "macho" to refuse to give in to panic? I think it is simply a matter of being informed. The rest of your post is slanderous. "Flesh dropping off their bones"? Come on, grow up.
As a "warrior", I believe it is best to avoid radiation when you can, sure. I just don't give into the irrational panic that most have about radiation, it is simply not as bad as most people think or FEEL about it.
It’s kinda like “No big deal but we are going to move this carrier”. These two things are different.
So you seriously worry about radiation all the time?
Nope, I take the iodine for health issues, thyroid issues.
I know it’s kind of late in the thread, but I wanted to thank you for relaying that post.
It’s very informative and written in layman’s terms that some of my friends who are concerned can understand. I’ll be sure to link them to the post as it appears on BNC.
Thanks for posting it here :)
I know the Captain is most likely a pilot shoved through NNPS, but surely he knows the difference between contamination and radiation?
People fear what they don’t understand. Unfortunately, there are those that benefit from the fear both politically and economically.
People fear what they don’t understand. Unfortunately, there are those that benefit from the fear both politically and economically.
That part of his statement was poorly worded, to say the least.
Even the Japanese government has been calling this a crisis since friday
But, but, but his daddy was a nuclear engineer and that makes him an ex-spurt......
The criticism coming from people that have never set foot on a nuclear facility or who have received their training in nuclear science from CNN University is what annoys me.
“Even the Japanese government has been calling this a crisis since friday”
....... YES, for JAPAN
The question I raise is as follows. The USS Ronald Reagan is the newest carrier in the fleet. It undoubtedly has the most sophisticated weather monitoring equipment currently available because it is a state-of-the-art aircraft carrier. IOW, they know which way the wind is blowing and they know which way the wind is going to blow several days out from present. Why was the carrier put in a position to allow for contamination at all? The Pacific ocean is a very big place and the winds have been forecast to be from the SW for the past several days in this area of Japan. Placing the ship NE of the damaged reactors seems to me to be a real bone-headed thing to do.
Well, yeah!
The radiation exposure of 144 millierem is the equivalent health risk of smoking about 100 cigarettes (5 packs) in your life time if you are a non-smoker.
AND, as we have learned here on FreeRepublic, cigarettes are good for you.
All of our front-line warships are fully capable of operating in an NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) environment. The Reagan’s class of ship was designed in the Cold War, with the clear threat of actual nuclear warfare.
This probably causes about as much trouble for the Reagan as a ten-foot wave.
Cause it was built to go into harms way? Cause the exposure was actually to a flight crew and not the ship itself?
Cause they know what they are doing?
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