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originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: Profusion
It is a 'zone' that will continue to spread over time and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Because their is no cleaning stuff up thats smaller than atoms, the 'half-life' of some of these fission by products are long lived (thousands of years in some cases) and the natural systems of earths biosphere (wind, wave, erosion and biological) is designed to spread nutrients (and toxins) around to sustain life. Which accumulates them incorporating whatever elements (stable or not) into our own internal systems.
I have a friend who's a bit of a nuclear nut, and he owns a geiger counter. He's taken readings from the area surrounding his apartment (Which is roughly 5km from mine, which for reference, I live in MinamiTokiwadai.)
Yes the area around Fukushima #1 will likely remain uninhabitable for a long time coming
People live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where bombs fell and scattered radiation for hundreds of kilometers, and Japan didn't end then.
originally posted by: Salander
Why haven't I been informed of this situation by the western media?
originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
a reply to: dukeofjive696969
Yep. I'm not growing extra limbs or glowing in the dark. Yeah Fukushima sucked really bad but Chernobyl didn't render Europe uninhabitable. We'll be dealing with the effects of Fukushima for generations, but life goes on one way or another.
originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
a reply to: dukeofjive696969
Yep. I'm not growing extra limbs or glowing in the dark. Yeah Fukushima sucked really bad but Chernobyl didn't render Europe uninhabitable. We'll be dealing with the effects of Fukushima for generations, but life goes on one way or another.
He did just "tell" me. He showed me, we made a day trip of going out and taking measurements because 1, I was concerned and 2, he was genuinely interested. I know enough about nuclear stuff to know what a background measurement is, and that's all we got. He showed me how just being near granite made the readings jump a bit because of it's natural trace radioactivity. He showed me samples he bought of uranium ore and how the readings starting going crazy. The radiation is certainly around Fukushima. Nobody can or will deny that. But it's not in Tokyo like some people would want you to believe.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: ScientificRailgun
I have a friend who's a bit of a nuclear nut, and he owns a geiger counter. He's taken readings from the area surrounding his apartment (Which is roughly 5km from mine, which for reference, I live in MinamiTokiwadai.)
Nice deflection. How one 'measures' radioactivity isn't just, I know some 'nut' with a geiger counter and he told me he gets only background. I can get background at the site depending on how i take the measurements and how much I want to misinform people.
But then you also say…
Yes the area around Fukushima #1 will likely remain uninhabitable for a long time coming
But it won't spread either. Just like they thought that meltdowns could never happen, and then affirmed that the plant would contain any leaks, then the site, then the 'surrounding area'.