Just like I was saying a couple of weeks ago. This is very sad. ABC's anchor at the start of the report says that the tiniest spec of inhaled Plutonium can cause lung cancer.
Just like I was saying a couple of weeks ago. This is very sad. ABC's anchor at the start of the report says that the tiniest spec of inhaled Plutonium can cause lung cancer.
Forty miles upwind to Manhattan at a missile facility, a nuke warhead -- a plutonium-based warhead -- once caught fire ...
On June 7, 1960, a non-nuclear explosion and fire occurred in BOMARC Missile Shelter 204. The fire burned uncontrolled for about 30 minutes. The force of the explosion destroyed the missile, its plutonium-containing warhead, and portions of the shelter ... see http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/bomarc-missle-site-46th-adms/How much plutonium was released? Guesses range from 1 to 15 kilograms according to web reports. Number of deaths: none reported.
The dangers of plutonium are real, but hysteria overstates them.
That ABC news story was from March 25, or thereabouts (2 weeks after the earthquake it said, also referenced the scare from a couple of weeks ago about the iodine in the water in Tokyo.
Yes, one speck of plutonium CAN cause lung cancer. So can one cigarette.
There could well be a crack in a containment. It could be leaking water — they haven’t so far as I can tell verified that the water is coming from within containment, and such a crack would not mean that plutonium can escape either.
I have no doubt this could end up much worse than is currenty known. I prefer though to worry about problems when they actually become problems, not fret about things I have no control over and that are not known yet.
Otherwise, I’ll spend my life worrying that tomorrow a meteor will hit the earth and wipe us out. Because that could happen, you know, and there are many people who believe that if the government knew, they wouldn’t tell you. And it would be much more damaging than anything that can come out of that plant in Japan.
I don’t think we serve our fellow freepers well posting old ABC news nightline videos, or giving too much credence to greenpeace press releases, or videos made by companies that specialize in suiing to stop nuclear plant construction. They are interesting, and more real knowledge is better than less, but we aught to properly label and put all information in context.
We know that governments tend to sugar-coat things. But we also know that there are many organizations that are paid to scare us into doing what they want.