Posted on 10/29/2013 9:11:15 AM PDT by Twotone
I have watched a TV programme called ‘Fear Factor.’ In the series there are contestants who have to confront their worst fears to see who bails out and who can fight the fear and get through.
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My computer gives me a warning when I try to reach that site.
it was interesting. It will also be interesting to read this author’s opinion after reviewing cancer and birth defect data in the following decades.
I didn’t have any difficulty, & I have good anti-virus software.
Yes. Fukushima is similar to Two Mile Island. Hysteria all over the place, nuclear plants shut down, no more nuclear development, and all over maybe ONE casualty.
The Tsunami waves did terrible damage to Japan, and they wrecked that nuclear plant. But the amount of radiation released is negligible—although I’ve heard people say that you shouldn’t go swimming in the ocean off California if the currents are flowing the wrong way.
Nuclear power is far cleaner and safer than other kinds of power—and it’s basically renewable, if someone would just cancel the Jimmy Carter rules that say you have to take all the nuclear waste out and bury it. No, burial of most “nuclear waste” is not a requirement of nuclear power as such—it’s a Jimmy Carter regulation, and you can guess how much sense anything that he did makes.
It’s hard to know who to believe, but we do know that we get too much hysterical nonsense out of the environmentalists. We need to step back and make sure we’re looking at good, solid scientific facts. It’ll just take a while to get that.
There is no spoon.
In my town there is a “superfund” site a huge park like area surrounded by a fence. When some methane gas leaked about 30 years ago it caused a nearby upscale housing development to stop in its tracks, new homes were boarded up.
I called the EPA to get the facts. The ONLY risk is that its possible some tiny streams will develop metal levels above those permitted because wild waterfowl might frequent them. Even this has NEVER happened. The site remains fenced 30 years later.
On NPR (of all places) a guy who sounded like he had impressive experience in these matters, said all those tanks where they are storing the “radioactive” water are in fact holding water that is far below international radioactive limits. There is no rational reason not to dump that clean water into the ocean and the only reason they don’t is they know there will be OUTRAGE over POISONING the oceans.
The author is correct in many of his points, but I would caution everyone to not gloss over the potential for real danger at Fukushima, and I certainly wouldn’t title an article ‘There was no Fukushima nuclear disaster’.
The melted remnants of the cores are sitting on their respective containment floors. Thus two layers of safety have been breached, with only one layer remaining. No one knows how well containment integrity withstood the massive earthquake, nor does anyone know when the next massive earthquake might occur.
Furthermore, thousands have been displaced from their homes, out of good sense caution.
However, the author is very correct that the danger that has actually ocurred is way overblown.
Hiroshima is looking pretty good these days.........
I hear Hiroshima and Nagasaki are modern cities due to the rebuilding. Does anyone know what remaining effect the bombings had?
Anti-nuclear hysteria is just that. Eco-nuts panic over just about anything that doesn’t fit their organic/dream-like existence. ted kennedy killed more people in the US than any nuclear accidents.
Amen to that, Brother!
Years ago I worked at a nuclear power plant during a refueling (called an "outage"). We were doing routine maintenance while the reactor was shut down. Once the job was finished we had a container partially filled with "low level nuclear waste". We were required to weigh the container and certify that weight in triplicate. Three forms, three people verify & sign.
What was this "low level nuclear waste"? The power tools and hand tools used in the "hot" work areas are kept in the secure "hot tool storage" between "outages", stored in heavy polyethylene bags which are taped shut with duct tape. When we checked these out of "hot tool storage" at the beginning of the job we removed these plastic bags. These bags and duct tape were now "low level nuclear waste". Disposable booties and rubber gloves also made up a large part of the total.
If we came out of a hot area and a small piece of mildly radioactive dust or dirt on our protective clothing or booties set off the Geiger counter alarm, we used a strip of 2" wide masking tape, wrapped a sticky side out around a hand, to grab the offending particle. This now became "low level nuclear waste". The Geiger alarm was set to sound at a reading of 150 dpm. IF you go to a sporting goods store and check the replacement mantle for Coleman gas lanterns you will find they read 2000 dpm.
Thousands of homes were also destroyed by the tsunami........coincidence?
The effects were so widespread that Detroit has never recovered.......
I just read this article about Fukushima — methinks there hasn’t been near enough hysteria over this mess, which could indeed play out to be an “On the Beach” scenario - no mention of GE as one of the incompetents here, but they should also be included. If you are anti-nuke or pro-nuke, it doesn’t matter - we need the Facts - we deserve to know what is really going on and why the MSM blackout.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36649.htm
The Japanese company was to blame for building the reactor in a vulnerable place and not protecting it sufficiently from a tsunami. Apparently they are rare on that part of the coast, but even a slight chance should have been avoided.
As for the duplicity and silence of the MSM, that’s what they always do. It’s politically correct to hate nuclear power, so they hate nuclear power. They don’t want to know the truth, they just want to ensure that nuclear power continues to be blocked.
Tens of thousands of homes near the coast were damaged by the tsunami. Tens of thousands of homes were damaged by the earthquake. They will have to be repaired/rebuilt.
But because of Fukushima, thousands of intact homes have been evacuated until the danger has minimized. I believe that some of them may be re-occupied sometime this decade. Most will be ready for immediate re-occupancy.
Allow me to indulge a pet-peeve. If, as you write, the “area would be radiated,” that means that the land would be emitting some sort of radiation whereas, more properly, a target is irradiated. Look at it this way, the Sun radiates light and the Earth is irradiated by the light.
I thoroughly enjoyed a reporter commenting that the Fukushima accident radiated people. This statement means that people were flying through air with the Fukushima plant as the point of origin. The reporter meant to say that the Fukushima plant “irradiated” people.
Similarly, you meant to write “the area would be irradiated.”
Sorry for being the pedant.
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