Fukushima, this is our situation.

sounded pretty uneducated, biased, and without numbers to back up. Sure radiation was found in pollen, food, etc, but how much? I'd like to know numbers

I'm all for nuclear power, and nuclear regulation and safe use of it, but its stuff like this that gives it a bad name.
 
well consider these nuclear particles little microscopic zombies, and if enough of them nom nom on your insides, over time you will decompose into nuclear soil, and soon after, you to will be little nuclear particle zombies.
 
The lack of media coverage on this is actually whats most unsettling to me. Its as if the goes beyond the line of reportability. If these claims would be substantiated imagine the mass panic and exodus to the southern hemisphere. Even if these figures are embellished it still sounds like a fairly groundbreaking event in the making for humanity.

Will and Kate are really important though.

 
the media isn't covering it because it doesn't have the numbers/this claim isn't backed up....
 
40,000,000 bcq/kg!!! oh shit!!!!!

i like how they use units that nobody has any idea about, but oh boy its a BIG number!

im unconcerned.
 
This. I felt like the article was trying to go against nuclear power. I live in the shadow of a nuclear cooling tower from our plant and couldn't feel any more safe.
 
I'm 15 miles from Seabrook, NH.

My parents dealt with the cleanup and decommissioning of several nuclear power plants

I grew up hearing about how tight the NRC is, and how on top of their shit they are. Believe me, if there was a problem there, we'd know about it and everyone would be doing everything they could do to contain it.
 
My Chem teacher works at our Nuke plant(Perry, OH). He told us there is a better chance of a tsunami coming over lake erie and wiping out all of Cleveland than a disaster at the power plant. It's just as safe, if not safer than any other form of alt. energy, its just expensive.
 
it's actually not that expensive, all things considered. Its incredibly efficient, incredibly safe, incredibly regulated. the ONLY problem is what to do with spent fuel rods, which is pricey because of all the precautions they take
 
quality post. Deffintely some scary shit that deserves further research. I do however support the use of nuclear of energy.
 
As someone who lived in Japan at the time of the earthquake and saw what actually happened, I can tell you the media did in fact report it. It's all that was on western tv for three days. The problem is the media needs to sensationalize it, and when you do that the feeling only lasts for a couple days. Then people are so bombarded with the issue they don't care about it anymore. The media recognizes this and instantly moves onto the next big story.

The Japanese are very sensitive about bad news getting out. So their media does hide a fair share. However the claims in this report are absolutely unfounded and ridiculous. There are MANY international scientists still working with the Japanese making sure levels are safe.
 
Any news site with pop-up ads instantly looses all credibility. Al Jazeera has nothing on this except a brief mention in the "opinions" section so as far as I am concerened this is some hippie in his/her basement complaining on a blog.

NEXT IN NEWS! UFO's spotted over white house. Human race will be enslaved within weeks!
 
After reading the whole article and the letter the senator wrote, it really doesn't seem to be as bad as the author is railing it out to be. The high majority of the letter seemed to give Japan our condolences on the tragedy, and less towards "get your shit together or we will all die."
 
The whole scare about the nuclear reactor was blown out of proportion in the first place. I haven't been able to find credible information that anyone has even died from radiation poisoning. Just a few people have been exposed to radiation levels that were all that dangerous.

The earthquake itself was a terrible event and I am not trying to downplay how serious it was but it is a separate issue than the claims about widespread radiation poisoning.
 
I'm all for alternative energy and saving the people, but this is all I got from the article...

"If they are MOX fuel"

That's a big if.
 
I don't really see how it's gonna be a mass extinction. It's not like radiation is gonna sweep across the country and kill millions of people in a day like an asteroid strike would. And if I remember correctly bcq are becquerel and it's a small unit. Hence why that number is huge. Radiation units are still something I don't know well off the top of my head... That would be like saying the length of a jump in picometers. It would sound huge and I'd bet most people don't use the pico prefix too often.
 
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