Time to stop nuke hysteria. Media obsessing over reactors that will probably not kill anyone.

Herald Sun ^ | 03/15/2011 | Andrew Bolt

[Secret Agent Man]

I don’t know for this particular thing yet, but I would say certainly for your emergency preparedness kits, you bet.

[Steely Tom]

No, the media is instead obsessing over a nuclear reactor that has killed no one and probably never will.

Punched Charlie Sheen's ticket, though.

[Secret Agent Man]

This is kind of what they were worried about, the spent fuel pools need to also be kept cool by pumped water and the difference is that they aren’t in a containment vessel.

[Secret Agent Man]

Wow that should make her lose her job right there. CBS ought to be embarrassed that much.

[D-fendr]

From your link, I gather: Very high levels are not being emitted from #4, but if the water level drops through boiling off and if they can’t get more water on the rods, there could be very high consequences.

What did you get from it?

[listenhillary]

Your wrong. I’m sure it was more than 14 billion that died from Chernobyl.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I trust Katie.

I’m surprised she never used the words “Climate Change” or (the now discarded) “Global Warming”. Those words have been used to put blame ANY NATURAL DISASTER.

[ReverendJames]

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Holy crap!!! Quit watching horror movies.

After so many responses to buzzer and after re-reading his post, I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. He probably forgot to mention that he was being factious.

[Bigh4u2]

I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t though.

There is on Freeper on who is absolutely nuts about all this.

Can’t remember his name right at the moment, but he/she is definitely besides themselves over this.

[Bigh4u2]

“There is on Freeper on who is absolutely nuts about all this.”

Should have said:

There is ONE Freeper...

Typing faster than I can think...

:0)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I was being hyperbolic.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I was being hyperbolic.

Fake but accurate.

[jnaujok]

Sadly it would appear likely that all 50 are (or soon will be) way over exposed before ever being allowed to leave?

I would not be surprised if most of these brave 50 are dead within weeks.

Enough! These brave men are in far more danger from the explosions and fires then from radiation. So far the highest level of radiation exposure has been 1.015mSv. Now, very few people understand the meaning of a millisievert, so let's put it into a term you can understand.

That's about 30 BED.

What's a BED? That the "Banana Equivalent Dose" or the amount of radiation you'd get from eating a banana, as they concentrate Potassium, including the radioactive Potassium-40 isotope.

So, so far the worst dose has been the same as eating 30 bananas. The current "highly elevated" readings at the plant are 2 BED. That's right, the same as eating 2 bananas.

Lifetime (actually 5 year) allowance for a nuclear plant worker is about 15,000 BED.

No one at the plant is going to die from radiation, unless something else goes horribly wrong at this point. Even the fire in the holding pool only released about a 27 BED dose. Even then, TEPCO is rotating workers in and out of the area on 4-6 hour shifts to reduce even the low exposure time. Although it's just as likely to be to reduce the likelihood of stress exhaustion.

Please - please - please - stop the hysteria!

[erikm88]

It's only enriched to about 4% for boiling water reactors. Not the 90-odd-something precent needed to create a nuclear weapon.

Not that 4% is child's play, but again, it's not the end of the world.

[buccaneer81]

That chart is wrong. Nuclear is 20% of US power generation.

[gunnyg]

“Time to stop nuke hysteria. Media obsessing over reactors that will probably not kill anyone. “
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Nuke hysteria?

So...then, I suppose we will start seeing all the bs about “nuke-denial, etc.”

it never ends...

[Steely Tom]

That chart is wrong. Nuclear is 20% of US power generation.

I think that chart (Energy Sources in the U.S.) includes all energy, including vehicles like cars, trucks, aircraft, etc.

[justa-hairyape]

Just got back from Lowes. Now have 5 rolls of Duct Tape. About what I would need. Not hoarding. Also picked up a bucket of stuff called DP 1030 Water Based Duct Sealant. Thousands of Japanese have been told to shelter in place. Whether or not this Radiation causes problems for the west coast, we have at least 2 Nuclear Reactors right on the Pacific Coastline. So I just added that stuff to my normal preparedness stash. Just being prudent. No one can accurately predict where this event will end up. And anyone that claims this will NOT be a problem or that this WILL be a problem, really is just guessing at this point in time. But check out this recent article.

Fukushima nuke plant situation 'worsened considerably': think tank

[count-your-change]

10,000 can die from a tsunami that lays waster to vast coastal areas and it's bad news but if even one person is injured by radiation it's a “nuclear disaster” of potentially epic proportions that may never end, millions of possible fatalities, yada yada.
Now all that is needed are the crockumentaries on “What Went Wrong? and How Soon will Your Bone Marrow Rot?”