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No dude, quit trying to argue with somebody who is certified in medical radiation physics!!! You are posting some ancient graph from last century... here is a more updated one and the proportion of medical radiation is increasing:
No dude, quit trying to argue with somebody who is certified in medical radiation physics!!! You are posting some ancient graph from last century... here is a more updated one:
Admittedly it's an older graph from 97, do you have link to the article for yours?
Most people assume that the meticulous Japanese are among the world's most responsible citizens. As an investigative journalist who covered the Hanshin (Kobe) earthquake and the Tokyo subway Sarin gas attack, both in 1995, I beg to differ. Japan is better than elsewhere in organizing official cover-ups.
Hidden nuclear crisis The recurrent tendency to deny systemic errors—"in order to avoid public panic"—is rooted in the determination of an entrenched bureaucracy to protect itself rather than in any stated purpose of serving the nation or its people. That's the unspoken rule of thumb in most governments, and Japan is no shining exception. So what is being silenced after today’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake on orders from the Tokyo government? The official mantra is that all five nuclear power plants in the northeast are locked down, safe and not leaking. The cloaked reality is that at least one of those—Tepco's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant—is under an emergency alert at a level indicative of a quake-caused internal rupture.
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Oh my..this is not good. Even if they say "slightly radioactive".
That sounds like " a little bit pregnant". And not to worry...radioactive vapor will not effect the environment or humans ?
Like the BP spill didn't effect sea life in the Gulf ?
Japan to release of radioactive vapor at nuke pant - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110311/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_quake_power_plant - broken link)
"Japan's nuclear safety agency says pressure inside one of six boiling water reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant had risen to 1.5 times the level considered normal.
The agency said the radioactive element in the vapor that will be released would not affect the environment or human health."
Oh, no. Only one thing can come from this.
Incidently my wife's mom lives in Chigasaki, not far from the beach. Her brother lives a few miles from her mom, with his family. She's calling them in a few hours, to see what's up.
Wish us luck. I'm hoping everyone is OK. You can walk from her mom's house to the beach in less than 1/2 a hour, at a leisurely stroll.
Scram the reactor, drop the rods and the carbon core (or whatever material was used) will absorb the radioactive Neutron emissions, and drop the temperature.
update ..there are 6 boiling water reactors and they cannot cool them down:
Nuke plant trouble after Japan quake; 3K evacuated - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110311/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_quake_power_plant - broken link)
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