Posted on 03/15/2011 12:56:34 PM PDT by Sprite518
Japan has told the U.N. nuclear watchdog radioactivity was being released "directly" into the atmosphere from the site of an earthquake-stricken reactor and that it had put out a fire at a spent fuel storage pond there.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
There’s a guy from MIT who says there’s nothing to see here, move along.
Gee, I thought we weren’t supposed to worry. Which is it?
I know this isn’t a good thing, but how bad is it for us?
Well it’s on Top of the Drudge Report. What’s Mr. MIT expertise in since he is saying what you want to hear.
All this end-of-world-mongering and I have yet to see any headlines that state “Containment Catastrophically Fails”. As far as I understand it, all the nuclear power plants in Japan could have meltdown and and as long as general containment is kept there isn’t a worldwide catastrophe that is going to happen.
If you were told to worry, other than worry, what would you do?
Except for people in the immediate vicinity of the blasts, no one got sick, no one died. Relax.
I was taking a jab at Mr MIT and beware there are a number of folks here on FR who suffer severe “Normalcy Bias” thanks to Mr MIT.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2688944/posts
We all know that governments are notorious for not telling the truth. So it seems like there are a lot of mixed messages. One thing I know for sure... No one outside the disaster area really knows for sure. Time will tell.... Nevertheless, it’s better to prepare for the worse case, but pray and hope for the best case scenario.
There will continue to be claims that this is not a big deal, unless large numbers of people start dying from radiation poisoning.
Drudge being hysterical again.
It does little good to worry about this.
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LOL radiation doesn’t leak directly into the air.
If there’s radioactive dust or smoke that’s one thing but radiation itself has the same physical properties as sunlight.
It did not give details or comparisons on the radiation level but exposure to over 100 millisieverts a year is a level which can lead to cancer, according to the World Nuclear Association. The Vienna-based IAEA uses the unit to measure doses of radiation received by people.
OK. So which way is the wind blowing?
The media are really hyping the "nuclear tragedy" theme much like they hyped the oil spill. They are clueless IDIOTS!
How else would radiation leak into the atmosphere? Indirectly?
Oh okay... Sorry...
I just think it’s too soon to make any type of judgment one way or the other. There are too many mixed messages right now.
It was a Chinese Missile.
From what I hear, you can eat a can of tuna and get the same benefits.
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