The Amount of Radiation in Japan is NOT Safe

I was supposed to head to Japan on Monday to help with the relief effort, it's being postponed because of higher radiation levels. Sucks.

 

That's pretty stupid. Over most of Japan radiation levels are less than the average natural background level in the US. If you are more than 40-50 km from Fukushima Daiichi, there is essentially no risk.

 

Castle Bravo was kid's stuff compared to the Tsar Bomb, which was 4 times more powerful and the largest ever.

 

Reactor #3 in the Japanese mess has fuel from weapons, whatever the stuff is, if you breathe one particle of it you have 100% chance of lung cancer... the rest of the reactors have the normal fuel...

 

Thanks. Incredible footage. 50 million tons of TNT. Ridiculous.

Total destruction = 15 mile radius
3rd degree burns = 64 mile radius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUIMgbXOmJg

 

The element you are referring to is Plutonium. Apparently MOX which contains some Plutonium from decommissioned weapons is in reactor #3. However all partly used uranium fuel rods contain Plutonium because U238 is transmuted to Plutonium in reactor cores. The amounts detected in the grounds of the Fukushima NPP are tiny and only just above residual traces of Plutonium from atomic weapons testing. They are completely insignificant compared to other sources of radiation at the plant.

Plutonium is the most dense element, which means it is very unlikely to spread far from the plant. The only real interest in the tiny amounts of plutonium detected is that is shows damage to the nuclear fuel rods - which is something we already knew.

The US Argonne National Lab makes this statement about Plutonium and health:

"The common myth that plutonium is the “deadliest substance known to
man” is not supported by the scientific literature. It poses a hazard but is not as immediately harmful to health as many chemicals. For example, for inhalation – the exposure of highest risk – breathing in 5,000 respirable plutonium particles, about 3 microns each, is estimated to increase an individual’s risk of incurring a fatal cancer about 1% above the U.S. average “background” rate for all causes combined."

http://www.puzip.com/preview.php?ke...eport/enviro/PlutoniumANLFactSheetOct2001.pdf

"if you breathe one particle of it you have 100% chance of lung cancer" is complete bullshit.

Eight, if you can't even remember the name of the element Plutonium, why do bother writing your scare mongering nonsense?

 

He's a republican. It has been shown that their brains have a walnut sized gland that causes them to be fearful of anything and everything. Facts and reality, having a liberal bias, cannot be fully understood nor accepted by these people under any circumstance.

This message has been approved of by the John Wayne Foundation for the Very Very Cowardly and Misinformed.

 

I was trying to get liberals to hold their breath until they turned blue, what can I say??

 

Funny you mention John Wayne. Pretty much everybody who ever worked with John Ford on all those Westerns shot in Monument Valley (near where a lot of nuclear testing was done) died from cancer.

 

Trends in radiation levels in Fukushima and adjacent prefectures. Radiation levels are clearly declining.

http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1301652988P.pdf