Japan still endangering the world's food chain

[MARIS61]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57382127/radiation-detected-400-miles-off-japanese-coast/

Here's a bit of karma:

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Maris, I can't think of anyone else on the board that would applaud someone for getting cancer.

 

[MARIS61]

Maris, I can't think of anyone else on the board that would applaud someone for getting cancer.

Not applauding him, just marvelling at the dependability and certainty of karma in our daily lives, keeping things in balance even as they continually change.

As for him getting cancer, it's about as surprising as Roy Horn being mauled by a tiger.

 

[MARIS61]

http://enenews.com/forum-about-japan-burning-radioactive-debris

 

[jlprk]

Tokyo Electric has cut ongoing radioactive emissions from the plant to about half of their recent levels, or about 6% of what a typical resident of an industrialized country receives in a year. The number is about one eight-millionth of the amount released in the days following the tsunami, which swamped the plant on the Pacific coast of northern Japan and triggered meltdowns in three of the plant's four operating reactors.

Did I just read that in the early days, people in the area received 6% times eight million, that's 480,000, times normal radioactivity? 480,000 divided by 365 = 1300 years of normal in each day.

But experts have said it will take years -- perhaps decades -- to fully clean up the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Hydrogen explosions blew apart the No. 1 and No. 3 reactor housings, while another hydrogen blast is suspected to have damaged the No. 2 reactor, and fires believed caused by heat from the No. 4 spent fuel pool damaged that unit's reactor building...parts of the buildings remain inaccessible because of high radiation levels and debris

The plume of radioactive particles that spewed from Fukushima Daiichi displaced about 80,000 people who lived within a 20-kilometer (12.5-mile) radius of the plant, as well as residents of one village as far as 40 kilometers to the northwest. The government has yet to determine when those evacuated can return to their homes...Japan's main strategy has been to scrape off the top 5 centimeters (2 inches) of topsoil from contaminated areas -- a plan the IAEA found could produce "huge amounts of residual materials"

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/17/world/asia/japan-nuclear/index.html?iref=obinsite

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Makes one think about nuclear reactors.