J Aguilar said: Look, this issue is pretty simple.
Ransomnote said: Yes it is - why are you lying about it? You said in post 35 “All these, and much worse, things already happened in Chernobyl 25 years ago, and no damage has been observed in the following generations.” This is a lie documented by hundreds of medical studies and the testimony of those who were there- you have no excuse for lying this way since you claim to be knowledgeable. Don’t you ‘get’ that your obvious lies destroy your credibility?
Why do you bother to say that Chernobyl was much worse? Does Russian nuclear industry incompetence and mismanagement somehow excuse Japanese nuclear industry incompetence and mismanagement in your mind?
Hard to say which disaster is worse when Fukukshima is just getting started with no end in sight. Chernobyl was one destroyed reactor that the Ruskies raced to contain at the expense of many human lives. Throwing humans into highly radioactive areas like firelogs - they dug below the molten fuel and installed a slab to halt the progress of the corium. The corium stalled out on that slab. They threw lives away to stop it from reaching the water table that supplies the Soviet Union and Europe. Chernobyl still emits toxic radiation and some scientists believe that pits in the ‘elephant foot’ can admit water resulting in an explosion. Also - their containment structure is about to collapse and vent mass quantities of radioactive material into the environment. And of course, the radioactive waste coating the countryside is still intact - and no one knows how to decontaminate it. New cases of cancer, leukemia, birth defects and endless diseases continue to form everyday from that 25 year old catastrophe.
Now Fukushima is actually 3 destroyed reactors (compared with Chernobyl’s 1) and all those damaged spent fuel pools. In an article in Veterans Today, a scientist makes the persuasive point that Fukushima has 30 times the fuel in play compared with Chernobyl. All those damaged spent fuel pools to tend continuously and we have to hope none of them fails in a seismic event (the area is riddled with faults) or the reactors don’t make the area unapproachable because then, humans couldn’t keep water in the pools and all that fuel would over heat and be vented into the environment. There’s simply no precedent for that scale of disaster. Furthermore, the Japanese have no plans to contain the corium as it burrows its way toward the water table. The Japanese aren’t willing to admit it’s even there and so - they simply ‘hope’ it doesn’t explode or contaminate the water table. No one knows how to contain corium so, for the foreseeable future, Fukushima will continue to pump radioactive waste freely into the environment (Cross our fingers it doesn’t explode!)
Your ‘facts’ are false - just like your earlier assertion way back in April that the reason radioactive waste was found outside the 30km zone was deposition by rain which would ‘wash it away.’ Your assertion that ‘well Chernobyl was worse!’ is bizarre and pointless. You have no credibility to opine or ‘publish’ anything of value.