High radiation recorded 18 miles from nuke plant

[cruxan]

Originally Posted by newonecoming2

I'm saying don't pull it out of the ground in the first place. If you don't dig it up and run it though a reactor you don't have to worry about it killing a bunch of people.

Now,they aren't saying that they've lost number 3 reactor. But that is what they aren't saying.

The problem now is how to contain this mess and keep it cool. the heat release will be causing trouble for hundreds of years if they simply buried it.

They need to start killing there workers to fix this mess. It is the price you have to pay for the arrogance of saying we can keep this stuff safe. You can't not 100%. Millions could end up dieing worst case from this so you don't be squeamish about a few workers that need to be put in harms way to make things safe for everyone else. Sometimes you have to die so that others can live.

nature had all the toxic crap tucked away deep underground..but no humans think they can controll everything including nature

[monkeywrenching]

Originally Posted by cruxan

High radiation found 18 miles from nuke plant - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com

high radiation? that much sv is nothing. wish they would say high radiation when it is actually high.

[Leisesturm]

Originally Posted by wxjay

People in this country (and others) simply do not understand what is "safe" and what is not. The word "radiation" is suddenly perceived as "dangerous", when the fact is that (a) there is very little, if any, body of scientific knowledge on what the threshold between "safe" radiation and life-threatening (we know the extremes, but not the spectrum); and more importantly (b) the exposure to radiation reported in most of these places is 3-30x (the extreme measurement listed was 300x, and even that was a single measurement) what you normally are exposed to, which overall is very negligible. However, the savants at the media have no concept of this.

What exactly are you saying then? We don't have to know. There is no safe radiation level. Any radiation is bad, even the so called 'background radiation' that we all live and deal with causes some of us to come down with cancer. Anything above that including dental x-rays (.01ms) or a mammogram (.04ms) can hurt someone, not everyone but there is a level at which half of people exposed to it will get cancer in the next 3 years. There is a good chance that a large number of Japanese people will be exposed to that level of radiation. Not today, not tomorrow, not even next week but likely in a month or two. Leave the !@#$$@# in the ground is dead on right! There is also this: at least one of the reactors in the complex is running plutonium fuel. Plutonium is still deadly after 24,000 years... .... What is anyone thinking when they design a reactor using fuel that dangerous? Are they in fact, thinking? Hmmmmmm.

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[cruxan]

Originally Posted by monkeywrenching

high radiation? that much sv is nothing. wish they would say high radiation when it is actually high.

thats easy to say when you are 6000 miles away