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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An average value is around 30 mrem a year, though this can be much less along the coasts, around half as much. And it can be twice as much in states such as Colorado.If you live in Atlantic City you get about 15 mrem a year, year after year. (That's if you don't hang on the beach.)If you live in certain parts of the world, like certain villages in India and Brazil that have high levels of thorium in local sands, the dose rate can be much higher. Kerala, India and Minas Garais, Brazil has rates of around 1,000 mrem a year.
-- http://www.blackcatsystems.com/GM/safe_radiation.html
But if you live in the coastal south-west India area of Kerala you get 67 times that day after day. In other words you get TWO MONTHS of RADIATION IN ONE DAY!
THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!
One of my best friends was a NUPOC(?) officer in the navy, he was stationed on the Abraham Lincoln her reactors were installed and went through her sea trials there. He was having problems with his hip for some reason and the Dr’s did a test where they injected him with a low level radioactive fluid to see what was going on. He went back to work and later in the day had to use the head. When he peed it set off the radiation detectors, to this day he still laughs that somewhere, buried in some deep lined pit wrapped in plastic, is the urinal cake he whizzed on.
There is no guy pulling out rods. The plant operators insert control rods to stop the reaction. (And they’re not physically doing so. It’s a mechanism that happens automatically in an emergency shutdown.)
Oh, really?
Interesting, and all these “Nuclear Arm Chair Warriors” here on the FreeRepublic have been saying don’t worry, there’s no danger, this is nothing.
I’m erring on the side of caution despite all thier macho BS.
““one month from sources such as rocks, soil and the sun” I dunno, this just doesn’t seem to be that significant.”
Is 30X higher than normal significant?
A matter of perspective. The damage Obama has done is many magnitudes greater than a nuclear plant half way around the world. Damage that we and our grandchildren will be paying for many years.
See post #41.
I would hope they would evacuate families of US service personnel at the US airbases near the Nuclear Radiator meltdowns...
The headline needs to be changed. It isn't the original headline and is utterly misleading in light of this new information.
The actual headline reads: "USS Carrier Ronald Reagan Passes Through Radioactive Plume Off Japan Coast"
Flesh dropping off their bones?
Overeact much?
I understand the humor but for those who don't, it probably isn't so. They probably used 99mTc as a tracer for imaging, and that has a six hour half-life.
I had a heart scan a few years ago and thy used about 30 millicuries of 99mTc. I went in to work that afternoon and was setting off radiation alarms whenever I walked by. I did a gamma spectrum of my chest using a high resolution gamma spectrometer and saw they characteristics gamma energies from the 99mTc. It was still in there. By the next day, it was gone (decayed or metabolized and pissed out).
How have you been harmed by the nuclear plant and the miniscule radioation that has been released?
It’s probably equivalent to a longish airline flight, or maybe a chest x-ray. Anyone overly concerned and having the least bit of numeracy could look into it more deeply and figure this out.
Yes you are erring.
Spreading disinformation and hyperbole is not the proper reaction.
If this were a Russian plant I would be concerned.
I’m going to start encouraging Freepers to freak out. I’m tired or trying to reason with them. It’s more entertaining watching them run in circles in useless frantic flailing at imaginary threats.
You're right. We, as a Country, are completely screwed on energy policy until 2013. hussein obama and his envrio-whacko base will use this to shut down the nuclear power industry. We've already seen hussein obama, Salazar, and the other anti-business whack-jobs kill the domestic oil drilling industry. They used the accident in the Gulf of Mexico as an excuse, and they're riding it. The problems in Japan due to the quake and tsunami will give them their excuse to crush our power plants.
Forget the economic recovery (if it was even starting, which I doubt). Energy prices are going to continue to climb, and the economy is going to continue to falter, if not get worse. All thanks to obama and his ilk and their mis-guided ideology, willing to sacrifice us and our standard of living on the altar of their pet political theories. (that we all know fail anyway)
See #41.
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