What about Fukushima or Chernobyl

[Countryside]

I didn't understand anything this thread said.

[RoyGBiv]

If you can believe the NYT

When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk

This spring, four years after the nuclear accident at Fukushima, a small group of scientists met in Tokyo to evaluate the deadly aftermath.

No one has been killed or sickened by the radiation — a point confirmed last month by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Even among Fukushima workers, the number of additional cancer cases in coming years is expected to be so low as to be undetectable, a blip impossible to discern against the statistical background noise.

[philip964]

If you can believe the NYT

When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk

This spring, four years after the nuclear accident at Fukushima, a small group of scientists met in Tokyo to evaluate the deadly aftermath.

No one has been killed or sickened by the radiation — a point confirmed last month by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Even among Fukushima workers, the number of additional cancer cases in coming years is expected to be so low as to be undetectable, a blip impossible to discern against the statistical background noise.

Well at least it was not a graphite reactor.

[bmwrdr]

let me chime in
when Chernobyl happened we just happened to be steaming in the Mediterranean sea on board the USS America CV-66.

We found out it had melted down by hearing it on armed forces radio, while in port Sicily. OH CRAP
the plume of radiation had been in the same location we had been.
we also were eating veggies and milk from a region that was also clouded over by the russian cloud
no worries young man,

that was a baby tick compared to the Japanese incident
we may not have to worry about WWIII if we screw up and attack Syria.

In regards to food consumption worries I can assure you the impact was significant. I lived in Munich at the time of the Chernobyl disaster. Many people were hospitalized because they arte mushroom. See link below for details.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/0 ... 43498.html

The Chernobyl incident caused an avalanche of demonstrations all over Germany and that is actually the reason why Germany is exiting the nuclear power generation. Scientists confirmed it takes longer to tear down a nuclear power plant than building one, costs are significantly higher for the tear down as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nucl ... in_Germany

At a demonstration in Wackersdorf, Germany a protester shot a police helicopter down with a sling shot. anti nuclear and anti government extremists derailed trains and terrorists blew up politicians and business people all over the country during that period. After many years the issues settled and the situation today is better but as history taught us it may not last.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_r ... ackersdorf

If Chernobyl was not a lesson Fukushima may not be a lesson either. The press does not write about it as much and as detailed as they could and scientists aren't sure about the outcome of Fukushima either.

[philip964]

let me chime in
when Chernobyl happened we just happened to be steaming in the Mediterranean sea on board the USS America CV-66.

We found out it had melted down by hearing it on armed forces radio, while in port Sicily. OH CRAP
the plume of radiation had been in the same location we had been.
we also were eating veggies and milk from a region that was also clouded over by the russian cloud
no worries young man,

that was a baby tick compared to the Japanese incident
we may not have to worry about WWIII if we screw up and attack Syria.

In regards to food consumption worries I can assure you the impact was significant. I lived in Munich at the time of the Chernobyl disaster. Many people were hospitalized because they arte mushroom. See link below for details.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/0 ... 43498.html

The Chernobyl incident caused an avalanche of demonstrations all over Germany and that is actually the reason why Germany is exiting the nuclear power generation. Scientists confirmed it takes longer to tear down a nuclear power plant than building one, costs are significantly higher for the tear down as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nucl ... in_Germany

At a demonstration in Wackersdorf, Germany a protester shot a police helicopter down with a sling shot. anti nuclear and anti government extremists derailed trains and terrorists blew up politicians and business people all over the country during that period. After many years the issues settled and the situation today is better but as history taught us it may not last.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_r ... ackersdorf

If Chernobyl was not a lesson Fukushima may not be a lesson either. The press does not write about it as much and as detailed as they could and scientists aren't sure about the outcome of Fukushima either.

Thank you for that post. It was something we missed here in the US.

[bmwrdr]

And everyone predicting the outcome of Chernobyl was wrong. The Russians said it will be cleaned up in a few years and there are no long term complications. They were not just wrong but they were liars.
European politicians said we are too far away and there is no worry. They were liars as well and many had to leave or were voted out.
None of them was able to give an accurate prediction of the Chernobyl disaster outcome and I do not believe there will be an accurate prediction for Fukushima.

[philip964]

http://www.boredpanda.com/photos-fukush ... BPFacebook

Photographer permitted into Fukushima exclusion zone as nature begins to swallow up what man left behind.

http://www.ryot.org/meet-earths-radioac ... als/925472

Worlds most radioactive man, takes care of the animals left behind.

[bmwrdr]

Thanks for sharing.

[philip964]

https://sharylattkisson.com/project-censored/

Most censored stories of 2015 includes Fukushima meltdown continues.

Are we already in the part of the year when we say best of 2015.

[Abraham]

While Russia and Japan have had horrific radioactive disasters, I think they pale in being destructive to man in comparison to the various nuclear bomb tests conducted by us, and all the other nuke capable nations that surely ought to cause us all to glow in the dark...

[philip964]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... rs-9996080

Texas hog hunters needed? Radiation suit most likely will be supplied by your host.

[suthdj]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... rs-9996080

Texas hog hunters needed? Radiation suit most likely will be supplied by your host.

Using air rifles, now lets start a caliber war about what you must use to kill a hog.

[philip964]

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/64493388 ... tion-death

First radiation death.

Thing about 1/2 life, takes a real long time to go away.

[PriestTheRunner]

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/64493388 ... tion-death

First radiation death.

Thing about 1/2 life, takes a real long time to go away.

Maybe putting a nuclear reactor on a tiny island that it extremely populous, on the ring of fire, next to the ocean wasn't such a great idea....

I doubt the full evidence of the impacts of Fukushima will ever be know. Radiation is a scary thing.

[philip964]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alas ... SKCN1R90BV

Fukushima contaminants found as far North as Alaska's Bering Strait.

Syria seems to be over. Fukushima seems as if it will be around a long time.