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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I read this article @ stars & stripes
I would expect that they have rad detection capability in any air-handling equipment, which is probably what alarmed. Once that happened, the health physicist types undoubtedly put film badges on "non-reactor" personnel.
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No, it isn’t double talk. It is just logical to move the ship out of the direct path of the wind. It doesn’t mean they are scared or worried or anyone is in danger, which they are not. Just something for the media to go into a frenzy on to fill the 24 hour news cycle and try to increase ratings.
You would think the design would be along the lines of using power to keep the rods together to produce heat and once outage occures the rods would reseparate away from critical mass... much like when air goes out on a truck the breaks lock up.
The final containment pot of molten uranium, as you mention, is the ultimate “if all else fail” and would work, but I am surprized that it takes power to contain the problem. We should not have to send a guy down there to pull rods out.
“To put this into perspective, the maximum radiation dose received was equal to the amount of natural background radiation one would receive in one month from sources such as rocks, soil and the sun.”
I would assume the people closer to the plant (not 100 miles away)were getting a dosage like that 24 hours per day every day. Nothing to worry about?
Bingo.
“one month from sources such as rocks, soil and the sun”
I dunno, this just doesn’t seem to be that significant.
If the “radiation” was removed with soap and water then it was not radiation but contamination. Somewhat the same thing but not entirely. Think an pile of dog crap. Contamination is the pile, radiation is the smell.
Per hour? Sounds pretty significant to me. Sit in it for a week and pick up six years worth of exposure.
To those frothed by imagination into a near-panic state it seems HORRIBLE and TERRIFYING. They, sad to say MANY FReepers included, have become very destabilized in reasoning.
It’s a tell tale as to our cultures general gullibleness to emotionally-driven response. Wanna know how an Obama got elected?
Here is the dynamic of irrationality in action.
Remember 3-mile Island. Carter and his gang of roving idiots allowed that serious problem to become fodder for late night jokes and official policy for the last 30 years.
Don't think Obama and company will NOT use this to shutdown future nuclear plants in this country and possibly go after the ones we have.
Those 17 were aircrew returning from shore. They and their helos were washed down. They were contaminated with particulate matter. But the ship also went through a zone of radioactivity.
I see none of that on this thread. I see questions, skepticism and speculation, not "near-panic."
I’m with you. Part of emergency planning for this type of situation is knowing which way the plume will be or is going. First thing to do is get out of the way, not sail directly into it’s path.
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