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Cause we know the UN is the expert. Next the UN will propose a no fly zone over Japan
Will the UN assert authority over Japan?
We live in interesting times
Isn’t the radiation just going to continue to spread and wreak havoc on more and more of the country over time? You know, like liberalism.
Quoting a friend of mine...
“...That is the japanese way. Ignore the reality of the issue until there is a problem and then do damage control.”
Haven’t logged on for years. The quality of freeper discourse became annoying.
I have been following the Fukushima Daiichi events. Have some background in the field.
The Japanese Government and TEPCO have been acting like hens in a henhouse do after a weasel has gotten in. Panic, denial, foolish, useless actions, etc. They recently admitted that they don’t have a dose rate meter that can read over one Sievert per hour. Imagine. I can’t believe it.
Can you imagine letting people walk into water emitting at “4 to 6” Sieverts per hour (which they can’t measure)? They have violated the very first rule, survey dose rate, survey it often, mark the area clearly, and log.
“Incompetent” isn’t the correct word for this. “Criminal” is.
Large areas in Japan appear to be contaminated by health hazard levels of Cesium 137. The Government is pushing this under the rug. Probably they are more incompetent than malign, but still, guys, for once in your lives decide to act like grownups.
A hint: Find out what is going on. Act on the data. Be conservative where health is concerned.
Me, I would dose all children in the country with potassium iodide. In areas where radioiodine is detected dose everyone. Do it now. It is probably too late for many, many Japanese. I advise Korea to do likewise.
In most cases one dose will be sufficient. Look at the Polish program after Chernobyl, worked great.
What a mess.
I think they would have evacuated if there was anywhere they could evacuate them to easily. It’s kind of hard when you have hundreds of thousands already displaced because of the earthquake and tsunami damage, to ask people to leave perfectly good homes because of radiation levels slighty above the conservative “safe” levels for permanent exposure.