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Mainstream media journalists flunk high school physics when reporting on radiation

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I've just stopped listening to all the millisievert nonsense altogether. It only really matters in the case of isotopes with short half-lives like I-131. But we already know at the bare minimum that there's radioactive Cesium all over the place for miles and miles, and in the water supply. Bottom line, this will not disappear in our lifetime. It ends up in the food and water supply. A few particles may only pose a few negligible micro-sieverts or whatever in terms of background radiation, but when ingested it will increase cancer and birth defect rates.

More and more radioactive isotopes keep spewing out even now, with no end in sight (they're now admittedly dumping the radioactive water directly into the ocean). It has already effected Tokyo, but perhaps to a greater extent than has been reported (they feed us the bad news slowly). Regardless, they've admitted it will probably take months at the minimum to even get the situation under control. The effect on economic confidence will hit a tipping point very soon, and this will be very difficult, if not impossible, to reverse.

The surreal feeling is now being displaced with the very depressing realization that Japan is now basically a radiation contaminated country. The world is now sympathetic, but once that wears off, Japan's reputation will be permanently stained. Japan may never fully recover from this. This is a profound world tragedy, which is still playing out as we speak. As far as I'm concerned, it's worse than Chernobyl.

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Just watched on NHK that radiation level in the ocean around the daiichi plant is now 7.5 million times the 'safe' level. So much for eating anymore Japanese marine produce this century. Yet another gaping hole punched into the economy and untold numbers of people about to lose their livelihoods... This is just such an unbelievable cluster#$%...

EDIT: The Iodine-131 was at 7.5 million times the safe level; but the radioactive Cesium levels were also in excess of 1 million times the safe level. Which means the marine life will be contaminated for longer than any of us will be alive. They don't even mention the levels of Uranium and Plutonium (which are almost certainly present in the water they're dumping, since they've already been found in soil samples near the plant).

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Nice to see you have finally gotten around to reading my link from page 18 of this thread (and reposting it). Of course back then, I was not credible and just ridiculously exaggerating, right? Nice to see you coming around anyway.

So are you still standing by this?

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From 1999-2010, Greenpeace and Japanese anti-nuke activists fought against unloading plutonium at Fukushima. Unfortunately, a court allowed it to go ahead in 2010. Had they begun instead in 1999, there would have been TONS of plutonium spewing all over the place instead of the relatively small, though still extremely harmful, amount now.

Watch the video.

How Activists Prevented a Much Worse Disaster in Japan

How anti-nuclear activists, local people, and GreenPeace stopped TEPCO from using MOX plutonium fuel in the Fukushima reactor, from 1999... until 10 months before the meltdown

The video below, shows that ordinary people can, and must, do extra ordinary things, to prevent man-made disasters from occurring.

These things happen because of the inactions of the many, with the profit-motivated irresponsible actions of the few, yet people don't need to lead a life of apathy followed by misery and ultimately suicide.

Do something great with your life. Join an organisation like GreenPeace, or network with people around you, locally and globally. Find actions that need doing, and encourage yourself and others to become involved in saving the planet. You can have much fun while doing it, as well as adventure, make great friends, and live life more like it was meant to be.

compelling video at link

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Radiation Scare Prompts South Korea Salt Shortage

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Some more ridiculous exaggeration...this time from Reuters.

India bans Japan food imports, says radiation spreading

By Ratnajyoti Dutta | Reuters � Tue, 5 Apr, 2011 9:23 AM EDT

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has imposed a three-month ban on imports of food articles from the whole of Japan on fears that radiation from an earthquake-hit nuclear plant was spreading to other parts of the country, becoming the first country to introduce a blanket ban.

The ban comes in the fourth week of unsuccessful attempts to safely secure the Fukushima nuclear power plant in central Japan crippled by an earthquake and tsunami in what could be the world's biggest nuclear disaster in a quarter of a century.

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"After detailed discussions, it was concluded that since the radiation is spreading/expanding horizontally in other parts of Japan, it may result in further radioactive contamination in the supply chain of food exports from Japan," the statement added.

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Japan said on Tuesday it was considering imposing radioactivity restrictions on seafood after contaminated fish were found in seas well south of the damaged nuclear reactors.

A number of countries have imposed bans on dairy products, meat, fish and other produce from areas near the crippled nuclear power plant. Many others are monitoring radiation levels in goods imported from Japan.

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