Japan is fucked.

GnarNinja

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/08/28/japan-fukushima-radiation-leak.html

"The nuclear authority originally gave a Level 1 preliminary rating — an "anomaly," to the tank leak. Last week the authority proposed raising that to Level 3 — a "serious incident" — and it made that change after consulting with the International Atomic Energy Agency."

"TEPCO acknowledged recently that only two workers were assigned to check all 1,000 storage tanks at the plant during their twice-daily, two-hour walk without carrying dosimeters, and their inspection results were not adequately recorded. TEPCO said it will increase patrolling staff to 50 from the current eight."

"Tanaka said there is a much larger ongoing problem at the plant: massive amounts of contaminated ground water reaching the sea. But that problem cannot even be rated under the IAEA's International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale because it is unknown exactly how much ground water is escaping, how contaminated it is and what effect it is having on the sea and marine products."

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INB4 this:

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sorry dub post blah blah blah

Social media bombards us with information.[/b]

You can learn how many Heinekens your cousin twice-removed consumed on a

frisky Friday eve and learn about one of the most significant events of

our time during the same 30 seconds. And in either case, you’re likely

to encounter a lavish exaggeration. Recently, social media has

exaggerated the repercussions from 2011’s Fukushima nuclear meltdown.

Radiation was the name of the game and suddenly the Pacific became

cancer-inducing aggressor, a killer’s playground. Waist-high waves are

now deadly and a bite of a Pacific-born fish is more harmful than 3000

Big Macs. But is any of this worry warranted?

We posed that question to three scientists. All agreed in that the

levels of radioactivity in the Eastern Pacific are of no threat to your

health, but Ken Buesseler was kind enough to give us the whole scoop.

Not to name drop, but this guy studied on-site at Chernobyl for years.

Here, the distinguished professor from Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institute discerns fact from foolishness. Big Ken (Ph.D., of course)

explains why you needn’t worry. And if you do decide to eat sushi again,

we must warn you about soy sauce — the sodium in there is out of

control. —Brendan Buckley

Ken Buesseler:The meltdown at Fukushima happened in

2011 and the waves from the tsunami brought radioactive material into

the ocean. There were various other sources from the event which caused

even more contamination. It was an unprecedented event for the ocean, so

there is every right to be worried. It’s good to have a healthy amount

of concern about radioactivity in the Pacific, but the effects from

Fukushima on our coast have been exaggerated. Certainly, there was an

extremely high level of radioactivity right at the site of the disaster.

However, the further away you go, the lower those levels become and

they reach a point of insignificance.

When you put milk in your coffee cup and start stirring, you see

streaks at first and eventually it all becomes that light color. The

ocean behaves in a similar fashion and the mixing is very well

understood. The radioactive isotopes mix with the currents. Those

currents slowly move across the Pacific and they will reach our shores.

But the levels will be tens of thousands of times lower that what we

found in Japan. They’re already low enough off the coast of Japan to be

safe, but they’re going to be even lower off our coast.

There is no way that the water that you’re surfing in could give you a

radioactive dose that would be of any concern. There are already

radioactive atoms in the ocean, but they aren’t dangerous. We have

naturally-occurring radionuclides and there are still radionuclides from

nuclear weapon testings in the ‘60s in there. It can be hard for people

to understand that it’s already been there, but it has been for

decades. And the radioactivity from Fukushima will cause no significant

difference.

The consumption of seafood has raised significant interest. If you

eat a contaminated fish, that is a direct dose of radiation and it is of

more concern than external exposure. Japan had to close down a large

number of fisheries for this reason. And yes, fish can move out of those

contaminated zones but they rarely do — besides for tuna. And if a tuna

was to swim away, the concentration of these cesium isotopes would

drastically decrease. They lose it as they get into cleaner water. In 50

days, a fish will lose half of the cesium it may have picked up off

Japan. We must watch out from thinking that every radioactive atom will

kill us. We’re regularly exposed to a number of detrimental things and

this one does not create a hazardous situation.

I don’t work for the power companies. I don’t work for any special

groups. We just analyze what we measure and how it compares to other

sources and try to put it into context. We don’t believe that the

Pacific Ocean is safe in the sense of being able to ignore what is an

unprecedented release of radioactivity. But I think it’s all been very

alarmist and you can blame that on the fear of cancer or bad sci-fi

movies from the past.

 
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this map is fake.

300 tons of water is literally nothing when compared to the pacific ocean. we really dont have anything to worry about over in north america, despite what the dozens of conspiracy theory websites have to say.
 
Just because America probably won't get that much (if any) radiation doesnt mean Japan isnt fucked.

Its fucking bad there right now. Like if they don't quarantine the area around it there will be some really fucked up shit coming out of there from the radiation
 
Wrong.... go look up the source of that picture. The actual picture was released when the tsunami that damaged the power plant took place. THE PICTURES ARE PREDICTING THE DIRECTION AND MAGNITUDE OF THE TSUNAMI WAVES FROM THE EARTHQUAKE. You just bit onto a big piece of internet bullshit my friend...
 
I never said anything about the map. It just made it look like Godzilla would have a better chance of being real. I didn't bite onto anything. Also Japan is fucked regardless of that map.
 
it is indeed fucked even though I didnt notice any difference before and after the leak problem here in Japan.
 
This is the height of the waves measured in cm, not the accumulated dosage of radiation in 1 rad = 0.01Gy, you stupid fucking idiot. It is bad but you suck.
 
Well Canada has reached it's Asian capacity limit. Sme of the other countries are going to have to buck up and adopt a couple Japan bros
 
So many lolz, i figured someone just made a fake map, but they took a map noaa made then created new labels.

also, the radiation chart also brought alot into perspective.
 
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