Should we be worried? (Re: Radiation fallout)

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  1. jlprk

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    The conservative government of Germany today made a U-turn, and agreed with the Left to close all 17 nuclear reactors in Germany because of the events in Japan.

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    Most of the industrial world ends up following Germany's lead, so this is great news.

    Where there's a willingness to change, there's hope.
     
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    Change to sitting around in the dark and cold.
     
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    You know, I can't quite wrap my head around the fact that the 5th-biggest earthquake in history resulted in almost 20,000 deaths and countless billions in damages...but the focus here is on an a "catastrophe of apocalyptic dimensions" that has so far made 20 people go to the hospital (and almost all have been released and are "all better").

    Ms. Merkel has a degree in physics and is supposedly a Christian--you'd think she'd know enough about both to not be so wrong in her statements. Or maybe she's kowtowing to lobbyists. Which alternative energy source is Germany planning on using that doesn't have risks of causing 20 people to go to the hospital following a 9.0 earthquake?

    BTW, the reason the Ronald Reagan carrier was moved out had nothing to do with 'radiation scares', but accountability. The same fission products released by the Fukushima plume are those that would be released in a navy reactor accident, and ones that we monitor for constantly. The reason our carriers and submarines can go into foreign ports is b/c the other countries recognize how safe our reactors are and how inspected they are. For this reason, the admirals decided to pull back Reagan so that there wouldn't be any traces of contamination belowdecks or in the ship's ventilation (no matter how slight) that could mask a potential nuclear accident onboard the ship. Not b/c they're afraid of the dose they'd be getting while closer to the coast. They have planes and helos flying every day through and over the area around Fukushima.

    I'll reiterate--anyone dying a slow death right now? Or is this whole thing like calling "Fire" in a theater b/c your neighbor spilled a slurpee and you smell popcorn, which in your ineptitude and ignorance causes you to think there's the same risk as a real fire and you want to be the countercultural hero?
     
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    The slow death is of the "you get old and die" variety, and the agony is dealing with chicken little variety.

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    The core has been breached in one of the reactors.
     
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    News from 2 hours ago:

    The No. 3 reactor core is probably cracked and leaking radiation, which will more severely contaminate the environment. Most likely, radioactive water escaped from the reactor core. Other possibilities: it escaped from other equipment like pipes or the spent fuel pools stored atop the reactor.

    News from several hours ago:

    Two workers were hospitalized yesterday with radiation burns after stepping in the water, which was found to have radiation levels 10,000 times higher than water used in reactor cooling. Tokyo Electric Power Co. found eight different radioactive materials in the water of the turbine building basement, where the men were attempting to connect a power cable. The materials include cobalt and molybdenum-99.

    This article got it right a week earlier:

    http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/18/world/la-fg-japan-quake-wrapup-20110318
     
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