[ransomnote]

I cut out the Japanese text interspersed in the article above in order to fit it all in. This may make it read a little strange but the missing pieces are in Japanese and are available at the link.

[ConservativeMind]

I guess the issue I have with this is that the article does not give any proof that the government’s message wasn’t valid.

You make it sound like everyone is going to die from radiation there, when, in fact, we really don’t see people dying, nor do we hear reports that Geiger counters are going off because people are now inherently radioactive.

[kingu]

Chernobyl, which dwarfs the accident in Japan, has according to at least the United Nations (pdf), resulted in 62 deaths. Mind, more people died during that period in drunk driving accidents in the same region.

The insane precautions that we go through for radiation fears completely ignores the environment we live in. We have radiation, it comes from the ground, it is in the soil, it streams down from the sun. Wash your hands, wash your vegetables, and you're fine. Every prediction of tens of thousands of radiation deaths in Europe after the Chernobyl meltdown has proved false. Every prediction involving thousands of fatalities from the 3 Mile Island accident has proved false.

And just like global warming, when the statistics fail to support the hypothesis, they claim that the real numbers are actually hidden. That doctors have banded together to bury the actual cause of death with other health issues.

Enough is enough. The only reason why these delusional paranoid predictions of dire consequences continues to come forward is that it's being used by the 'Green' movement to avoid using cheap nuclear power, and they're betting that if they can delay long enough the construction of new plants, that enough of the old ones who have doubled or sometimes tripled their life expectancy will have horrible accidents they can exploit and put the final nail in the nuclear coffin.

[kidd]

I work in the nuclear industry.

We were provided with some advice in dealing with the public on the issue of Fukushima.

One of those points of advice was not to bother to try to explain what a safe level of radiation is. The public is ignorant of health physics and has the irrational mindset that ANY radiation is bad at ANY level.

This article is a good example of that ignorance.