US Air Force WC-135 Detects Deadly Radiation Over Pacific (US in 24hrs)

Originally posted by darkest4
To even suggest that a nuclear plant meltdown has a deadly radius of 5000+ miles is so ridiculous

Not entirely. While not a huge devastating amount of fallout, Chernobyl fallout did reach the US. While only small amounts, it did. It is also further away. So while it may not happen, it is possible to get a dose of RADS from Japan if something catastrophic were to happen at those plants.

Originally posted by RUDDD

Originally posted by AdonisDNA
reply to post by templar knight

 

I seen a so-called bbc "expert" say they wont melt down "it will not meltdown" ohhhhh it did
I seen a so-called bbc "expert" say seawater would work to cool it ohhhhh it didnt
I seen a "expert" in and from japan working on the thing say they cant tell for sure because they cant get into the building. but the bbc talking head "expert" knows lol let me tell you something about the bbc ive been following this thing from friday the bbc is full of sh## and are about 6hours old in the information they bring out

Yep. Haven't got the balls to do their own investigative work and are taking the word of the Japanese and their "armchair experts" as the Gospel Truth. I quit watching the propoganda tripe here in the UK after Saturday morning.

And you are taking the word of a shock website with a known and documented record of misinformation?

Isn't that sort of a kettle/pot scenario?

reply to post by boondock-saint

Yeah it is the best msm report that I have come across so far. No prob for the link.

Rather have that, and independently verify the sources by the hour. Than have a BBC producer telling the world what he/she thinks is 'best for them' based on information that's unfactual and other reports that are 6 hours behind. I know when i'm watching these so called 'armchair experts' at the BBC spouting their crap, its time to fire up the PC and at least get some non-biased views or state propoganda.

Originally posted by SMR

Originally posted by darkest4
To even suggest that a nuclear plant meltdown has a deadly radius of 5000+ miles is so ridiculous

Not entirely. While not a huge devastating amount of fallout, Chernobyl fallout did reach the US. While only small amounts, it did. It is also further away. So while it may not happen, it is possible to get a dose of RADS from Japan if something catastrophic were to happen at those plants.

thank you for posting that pic.
it is a point we have been making for
over 20 pages.

And this is exactly the reason why
that poster aboard the USS Reagan
cannot truly say that any fallout from
Japan will not hit the US.

I found the following text (already second-hand so I don't know the original source) on an RC forum thread discussing this issue and it seemed worth sharing here:

EDIT: SOURCE

This was written (Mar 12) to give you some peace of mind regarding some of the troubles in Japan, that is the safety of Japan’s nuclear reactors. Up front, the situation is serious, but under control. And this text is long! But you will know more about nuclear power plants after reading it than all journalists on this planet put together.

There was and will *not* be any significant release of radioactivity.

By “significant” I mean a level of radiation of more than what you would receive on – say – a long distance flight, or drinking a glass of beer that comes from certain areas with high levels of natural background radiation.

I have been reading every news release on the incident since the earthquake. There has not been one single (!) report that was accurate and free of errors (and part of that problem is also a weakness in the Japanese crisis communication). By “not free of errors” I do not refer to tendentious anti-nuclear journalism – that is quite normal these days. By “not free of errors” I mean blatant errors regarding physics and natural law, as well as gross misinterpretation of facts, due to an obvious lack of fundamental and basic understanding of the way nuclear reactors are build and operated. I have read a 3 page report on CNN where every single paragraph contained an error.

We will have to cover some fundamentals, before we get into what is going on.

Construction of the Fukushima nuclear power plants

The plants at Fukushima are so called Boiling Water Reactors, or BWR for short. Boiling Water Reactors are similar to a pressure cooker. The nuclear fuel heats water, the water boils and creates steam, the steam then drives turbines that create the electricity, and the steam is then cooled and condensed back to water, and the water send back to be heated by the nuclear fuel. The pressure cooker operates at about 250 °C.

The nuclear fuel is uranium oxide. Uranium oxide is a ceramic with a very high melting point of about 3000 °C. The fuel is manufactured in pellets (think little cylinders the size of Lego bricks). Those pieces are then put into a long tube made of Zircaloy with a melting point of 2200 °C, and sealed tight. The assembly is called a fuel rod. These fuel rods are then put together to form larger packages, and a number of these packages are then put into the reactor. All these packages together are referred to as “the core”.

The Zircaloy casing is the first containment. It separates the radioactive fuel from the rest of the world.

The core is then placed in the “pressure vessels”. That is the pressure cooker we talked about before. The pressure vessels is the second containment. This is one sturdy piece of a pot, designed to safely contain the core for temperatures several hundred °C. That covers the scenarios where cooling can be restored at some point.

The entire “hardware” of the nuclear reactor – the pressure vessel and all pipes, pumps, coolant (water) reserves, are then encased in the third containment. The third containment is a hermetically (air tight) sealed, very thick bubble of the strongest steel and concrete. The third containment is designed, built and tested for one single purpose: To contain, indefinitely, a complete core meltdown. For that purpose, a large and thick concrete basin is cast under the pressure vessel (the second containment), all inside the third containment. This is the so-called “core catcher”. If the core melts and the pressure vessel bursts (and eventually melts), it will catch the molten fuel and everything else. It is typically built in such a way that the nuclear fuel will be spread out, so it can cool down.

This third containment is then surrounded by the reactor building. The reactor building is an outer shell that is supposed to keep the weather out, but nothing in. (this is the part that was damaged in the explosion, but more to that later).

Fundamentals of nuclear reactions

The uranium fuel generates heat by nuclear fission. Big uranium atoms are split into smaller atoms. That generates heat plus neutrons (one of the particles that forms an atom). When the neutron hits another uranium atom, that splits, generating more neutrons and so on. That is called the nuclear chain reaction.

Now, just packing a lot of fuel rods next to each other would quickly lead to overheating and after about 45 minutes to a melting of the fuel rods. It is worth mentioning at this point that the nuclear fuel in a reactor can *never* cause a nuclear explosion the type of a nuclear bomb. Building a nuclear bomb is actually quite difficult (ask Iran). In Chernobyl, the explosion was caused by excessive pressure buildup, hydrogen explosion and rupture of all containments, propelling molten core material into the environment (a “dirty bomb”). Why that did not and will not happen in Japan, further below.

In order to control the nuclear chain reaction, the reactor operators use so-called “control rods”. The control rods absorb the neutrons and kill the chain reaction instantaneously. A nuclear reactor is built in such a way, that when operating normally, you take out all the control rods. The coolant water then takes away the heat (and converts it into steam and electricity) at the same rate as the core produces it. And you have a lot of leeway around the standard operating point of 250°C.

The challenge is that after inserting the rods and stopping the chain reaction, the core still keeps producing heat. The uranium “stopped” the chain reaction. But a number of intermediate radioactive elements are created by the uranium during its fission process, most notably Cesium and Iodine isotopes, i.e. radioactive versions of these elements that will eventually split up into smaller atoms and not be radioactive anymore. Those elements keep decaying and producing heat. Because they are not regenerated any longer from the uranium (the uranium stopped decaying after the control rods were put in), they get less and less, and so the core cools down over a matter of days, until those intermediate radioactive elements are used up.

This residual heat is causing the headaches right now.

So the first “type” of radioactive material is the uranium in the fuel rods, plus the intermediate radioactive elements that the uranium splits into, also inside the fuel rod (Cesium and Iodine).

There is a second type of radioactive material created, outside the fuel rods. The big main difference up front: Those radioactive materials have a very short half-life, that means that they decay very fast and split into non-radioactive materials. By fast I mean seconds. So if these radioactive materials are released into the environment, yes, radioactivity was released, but no, it is not dangerous, at all. Why? By the time you spelled “R-A-D-I-O-N-U-C-L-I-D-E”, they will be harmless, because they will have split up into non radioactive elements. Those radioactive elements are N-16, the radioactive isotope (or version) of nitrogen (air). The others are noble gases such as Argon. But where do they come from? When the uranium splits, it generates a neutron (see above). Most of these neutrons will hit other uranium atoms and keep the nuclear chain reaction going. But some will leave the fuel rod and hit the water molecules, or the air that is in the water. Then, a non-radioactive element can “capture” the neutron. It becomes radioactive. As described above, it will quickly (seconds) get rid again of the neutron to return to its former beautiful self.

This second “type” of radiation is very important when we talk about the radioactivity being released into the environment later on.

What happened at Fukushima

I will try to summarize the main facts. The earthquake that hit Japan was 5 times more powerful than the worst earthquake the nuclear power plant was built for (the Richter scale works logarithmically; the difference between the 8.2 that the plants were built for and the 8.9 that happened is 5 times, not 0.7). So the first hooray for Japanese engineering, everything held up.

When the earthquake hit with 8.9, the nuclear reactors all went into automatic shutdown. Within seconds after the earthquake started, the control rods had been inserted into the core and nuclear chain reaction of the uranium stopped. Now, the cooling system has to carry away the residual heat. The residual heat load is about 3% of the heat load under normal operating conditions.

The earthquake destroyed the external power supply of the nuclear reactor. That is one of the most serious accidents for a nuclear power plant, and accordingly, a “plant black out” receives a lot of attention when designing backup systems. The power is needed to keep the coolant pumps working. Since the power plant had been shut down, it cannot produce any electricity by itself any more.

Things were going well for an hour. One set of multiple sets of emergency Diesel power generators kicked in and provided the electricity that was needed. Then the Tsunami came, much bigger than people had expected when building the power plant (see above, factor 7). The tsunami took out all multiple sets of backup Diesel generators.

When designing a nuclear power plant, engineers follow a philosophy called “Defense of Depth”. That means that you first build everything to withstand the worst catastrophe you can imagine, and then design the plant in such a way that it can still handle one system failure (that you thought could never happen) after the other. A tsunami taking out all backup power in one swift strike is such a scenario. The last line of defense is putting everything into the third containment (see above), that will keep everything, whatever the mess, control rods in our out, core molten or not, inside the reactor.

When the diesel generators were gone, the reactor operators switched to emergency battery power. The batteries were designed as one of the backups to the backups, to provide power for cooling the core for 8 hours. And they did.

Within the 8 hours, another power source had to be found and connected to the power plant. The power grid was down due to the earthquake. The diesel generators were destroyed by the tsunami. So mobile diesel generators were trucked in.

This is where things started to go seriously wrong. The external power generators could not be connected to the power plant (the plugs did not fit). So after the batteries ran out, the residual heat could not be carried away any more.

At this point the plant operators begin to follow emergency procedures that are in place for a “loss of cooling event”. It is again a step along the “Depth of Defense” lines. The power to the cooling systems should never have failed completely, but it did, so they “retreat” to the next line of defense. All of this, however shocking it seems to us, is part of the day-to-day training you go through as an operator, right through to managing a core meltdown.

It was at this stage that people started to talk about core meltdown. Because at the end of the day, if cooling cannot be restored, the core will eventually melt (after hours or days), and the last line of defense, the core catcher and third containment, would come into play.

But the goal at this stage was to manage the core while it was heating up, and ensure that the first containment (the Zircaloy tubes that contains the nuclear fuel), as well as the second containment (our pressure cooker) remain intact and operational for as long as possible, to give the engineers time to fix the cooling systems.

Because cooling the core is such a big deal, the reactor has a number of cooling systems, each in multiple versions (the reactor water cleanup system, the decay heat removal, the reactor core isolating cooling, the standby liquid cooling system, and the emergency core cooling system). Which one failed when or did not fail is not clear at this point in time.

So imagine our pressure cooker on the stove, heat on low, but on. The operators use whatever cooling system capacity they have to get rid of as much heat as possible, but the pressure starts building up. The priority now is to maintain integrity of the first containment (keep temperature of the fuel rods below 2200°C), as well as the second containment, the pressure cooker.* In order to maintain integrity of the pressure cooker (the second containment), the pressure has to be released from time to time. Because the ability to do that in an emergency is so important, the reactor has 11 pressure release valves. The operators now started venting steam from time to time to control the pressure. The temperature at this stage was about 550°C.

This is when the reports about “radiation leakage” starting coming in. I believe I explained above why venting the steam is theoretically the same as releasing radiation into the environment, but why it was and is not dangerous. The radioactive nitrogen as well as the noble gases do not pose a threat to human health.

At some stage during this venting, the explosion occurred. The explosion took place outside of the third containment (our “last line of defense”), and the reactor building. Remember that the reactor building has no function in keeping the radioactivity contained. It is not entirely clear yet what has happened, but this is the likely scenario: The operators decided to vent the steam from the pressure vessel not directly into the environment, but into the space between the third containment and the reactor building (to give the radioactivity in the steam more time to subside). The problem is that at the high temperatures that the core had reached at this stage, water molecules can “disassociate” into oxygen and hydrogen – an explosive mixture. And it did explode, outside the third containment, damaging the reactor building around. It was that sort of explosion, but inside the pressure vessel (because it was badly designed and not managed properly by the operators) that lead to the explosion of Chernobyl. This was never a risk at Fukushima. The problem of hydrogen-oxygen formation is one of the biggies when you design a power plant (if you are not Soviet, that is), so the reactor is build and operated in a way it cannot happen inside the containment. It happened outside, which was not intended but a possible scenario and OK, because it did not pose a risk for the containment.

So the pressure was under control, as steam was vented. Now, if you keep boiling your pot, the problem is that the water level will keep falling and falling. The core is covered by several meters of water in order to allow for some time to pass (hours, days) before it gets exposed. Once the rods start to be exposed at the top, the exposed parts will reach the critical temperature of 2200 °C after about 45 minutes. This is when the first containment, the Zircaloy tube, would fail.

And this started to happen. The cooling could not be restored before there was some (very limited, but still) damage to the casing of some of the fuel. The nuclear material itself was still intact, but the surrounding Zircaloy shell had started melting. What happened now is that some of the byproducts of the uranium decay – radioactive Cesium and Iodine – started to mix with the steam. The big problem, uranium, was still under control, because the uranium oxide rods were good until 3000 °C. It is confirmed that a very small amount of Cesium and Iodine was measured in the steam that was released into the atmosphere.

It seems this was the “go signal” for a major plan B. The small amounts of Cesium that were measured told the operators that the first containment on one of the rods somewhere was about to give. The Plan A had been to restore one of the regular cooling systems to the core. Why that failed is unclear. One plausible explanation is that the tsunami also took away / polluted all the clean water needed for the regular cooling systems.

The water used in the cooling system is very clean, demineralized (like distilled) water. The reason to use pure water is the above mentioned activation by the neutrons from the Uranium: Pure water does not get activated much, so stays practically radioactive-free. Dirt or salt in the water will absorb the neutrons quicker, becoming more radioactive. This has no effect whatsoever on the core – it does not care what it is cooled by. But it makes life more difficult for the operators and mechanics when they have to deal with activated (i.e. slightly radioactive) water.

But Plan A had failed – cooling systems down or additional clean water unavailable – so Plan B came into effect. This is what it looks like happened:

In order to prevent a core meltdown, the operators started to use sea water to cool the core. I am not quite sure if they flooded our pressure cooker with it (the second containment), or if they flooded the third containment, immersing the pressure cooker. But that is not relevant for us.

The point is that the nuclear fuel has now been cooled down. Because the chain reaction has been stopped a long time ago, there is only very little residual heat being produced now. The large amount of cooling water that has been used is sufficient to take up that heat. Because it is a lot of water, the core does not produce sufficient heat any more to produce any significant pressure. Also, boric acid has been added to the seawater. Boric acid is “liquid control rod”. Whatever decay is still going on, the Boron will capture the neutrons and further speed up the cooling down of the core.

The plant came close to a core meltdown. Here is the worst-case scenario that was avoided: If the seawater could not have been used for treatment, the operators would have continued to vent the water steam to avoid pressure buildup. The third containment would then have been completely sealed to allow the core meltdown to happen without releasing radioactive material. After the meltdown, there would have been a waiting period for the intermediate radioactive materials to decay inside the reactor, and all radioactive particles to settle on a surface inside the containment. The cooling system would have been restored eventually, and the molten core cooled to a manageable temperature. The containment would have been cleaned up on the inside. Then a messy job of removing the molten core from the containment would have begun, packing the (now solid again) fuel bit by bit into transportation containers to be shipped to processing plants. Depending on the damage, the block of the plant would then either be repaired or dismantled.

Now, where does that leave us? My assessment:

The plant is safe now and will stay safe.
Japan is looking at an INES Level 4 Accident: Nuclear accident with local consequences. That is bad for the company that owns the plant, but not for anyone else.
Some radiation was released when the pressure vessel was vented. All radioactive isotopes from the activated steam have gone (decayed). A very small amount of Cesium was released, as well as Iodine. If you were sitting on top of the plants’ chimney when they were venting, you should probably give up smoking to return to your former life expectancy. The Cesium and Iodine isotopes were carried out to the sea and will never be seen again.
There was some limited damage to the first containment. That means that some amounts of radioactive Cesium and Iodine will also be released into the cooling water, but no Uranium or other nasty stuff (the Uranium oxide does not “dissolve” in the water). There are facilities for treating the cooling water inside the third containment. The radioactive Cesium and Iodine will be removed there and eventually stored as radioactive waste in terminal storage.
The seawater used as cooling water will be activated to some degree. Because the control rods are fully inserted, the Uranium chain reaction is not happening. That means the “main” nuclear reaction is not happening, thus not contributing to the activation. The intermediate radioactive materials (Cesium and Iodine) are also almost gone at this stage, because the Uranium decay was stopped a long time ago. This further reduces the activation. The bottom line is that there will be some low level of activation of the seawater, which will also be removed by the treatment facilities.
The seawater will then be replaced over time with the “normal” cooling water
The reactor core will then be dismantled and transported to a processing facility, just like during a regular fuel change.
Fuel rods and the entire plant will be checked for potential damage. This will take about 4-5 years.
The safety systems on all Japanese plants will be upgraded to withstand a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami (or worse)
(Updated) I believe the most significant problem will be a prolonged power shortage. 11 of Japan’s 55 nuclear reactors in different plants were shut down and will have to be inspected, directly reducing the nation’s nuclear power generating capacity by 20%, with nuclear power accounting for about 30% of the national total power generation capacity. I have not looked into possible consequences for other nuclear plants not directly affected. This will probably be covered by running gas power plants that are usually only used for peak loads to cover some of the base load as well. *I am not familiar with Japan’s energy supply chain for oil, gas and coal, and what damage the harbors, refinery, storage and transportation networks have suffered, as well as damage to the national distribution grid. All of that will increase your electricity bill, as well as lead to power shortages during peak demand and reconstruction efforts, in Japan.
This all is only part of a much bigger picture. Emergency response has to deal with shelter, drinking water, food and medical care, transportation and communication infrastructure, as well as electricity supply. In a world of lean supply chains, we are looking at some major challenges in all of these areas.
If you want to stay informed, please forget the usual media outlets and consult the following websites:

www.world-nuclear-news.org...
www.world-nuclear-news.org...
bravenewclimate.com...
ansnuclearcafe.org...

TOKYO: Japan's struggle to contain the crisis at a stricken nuclear power plant worsened sharply early on Tuesday morning, as emergency operations to pump seawater into one crippled reactor failed at least temporarily, increasing the risk of an uncontrolled release of radioactive material, officials said.

Emergency-cooling-effort-failing-at-Japanese-reactor-deepening-crisis

Originally posted by Wergenschmunderer
I found the following text (already second-hand so I don't know the original source) on an RC forum thread discussing this issue and it seemed worth sharing here:

Here's your Source

www.stormsurfing.com...

Heres a model of the Pacific Stream..

To those in fomer Military or currently serve now .. plz reply, we need your knowledge.

(a) It is my understanding that ALL Naval Ships & Aircraft have Rad Alarms equip'd on them, set to minimum low dose triggers but still pose a health issue...yes or no?

(b) If a above is a true statement, then the fallout from the explosion would have triggered the alarm, which is set to low dose, thus making the fleet stationed there to move out of the area far enough to be out of harms way...yes or no?

(c) If b above is true, how could have the saliors be exposed??

I don't see how the Captains/Admirals would have NOT understood the situation at the plants and NOT take precauions???

2226: David, in Tokyo, writes: "I have lived in Japan for 20 years, and last night sent my family to the west of Japan 700km from Tokyo to stay with relatives. Like Japanese people I don't believe what we are being told by Tepco or the government. We have just been told of a 'deficit' in the reactor 2 by the government in a 0630 announcement. Governments only make announcements at that time if the problem is serious.

Has any one else seen this?

no credible source

reply to post by SMR


SMALL amounts, key phrase. We are exposed to SMALL AMOUNTS of radiation all the time, it means nothing, its part of life and doesn't harm us. The OP proposed "deadly cloud" of radiation would reach the us and then people said we need to evacuate, take pills etc. No, just no. Deadly amounts of radiation will never reach 5,000 miles away from a meltdown, which hasn't even happened yet, so people need to stop freaking out.

Originally posted by Freedoom
2226: David, in Tokyo, writes: "I have lived in Japan for 20 years, and last night sent my family to the west of Japan 700km from Tokyo to stay with relatives. Like Japanese people I don't believe what we are being told by Tepco or the government. We have just been told of a 'deficit' in the reactor 2 by the government in a 0630 announcement. Governments only make announcements at that time if the problem is serious.

Has any one else seen this?

On here live.reuters.com... I saw this quote "In Tokyo, we are really starting to worry. Now it looks best to head south away from the capital at least for a few days."

Looks like people are starting to take note, and those with common sense are making their way Westwards.

Originally posted by darkest4
reply to post by SMR

 

SMALL amounts, key phrase. We are exposed to SMALL AMOUNTS of radiation all the time, it means nothing, its part of life and doesn't harm us. The OP proposed "deadly cloud" of radiation would reach the us and then people said we need to evacuate, take pills etc. No, just no. Deadly amounts of radiation will never reach 5,000 miles away from a meltdown, which hasn't even happened yet, so people need to stop freaking out.

We've established that the OP's original content is from an unreliable source. What we are trying to do now is get real information, if you don't have any please stop posting what so many others have already.

K. Thanks..

Originally posted by plube
reply to post by DABIGRAGU

 

Nice to see how some people do look behind the alterior motives of people who feed the MSM this rubbish for their own personal gains i would have to agree with you on that.
The sad thing is by the replies that there are actually members who are believeing this BS and have no idea about what the term fallout even means....fallout comes in the form of the debris that is collected during an nuclear explosion and that particulate is brought up into the upper atmosphere and then falls dwon in these particles bring down the radio active matter with it....which i am sure you are aware.
now also there is a contingent that would like nothing more than to see the power of Japanese economy fail and as you can see in the Markets this is occuring...and the people of Japan do not need to suffer this consequence of a disaster that is not of their making.
One day it would be good to see mankind stick together and act as a human race, It is a sad day that this disaster is being used in such a manner, The Japanese people are suffering and the rest of the world should be showing support not further ripping them apart.
I started a thread to show how the ja[panese people deserve so much better as they go through this crisis.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Stop the fear mongering in this thread and the Members of ATS should know better than to accept any BS from unconfirmed sources.

Thank you Plube, it lifts the spirit to see your post and new thread. I'd much rather take this road than the somewhat narcissistic rantings I've seen and heard as of late. You're right it is sad this disaster is being used in such a manner. I've added your "friend". It is amazing to see how the people of Japan are handling this with such grace, if we could only learn a fraction from it. Bless you and those here who have brought some common sense to this disaster. Aloha.

Originally posted by LoTeK

Originally posted by darkest4
reply to post by SMR

 

SMALL amounts, key phrase. We are exposed to SMALL AMOUNTS of radiation all the time, it means nothing, its part of life and doesn't harm us. The OP proposed "deadly cloud" of radiation would reach the us and then people said we need to evacuate, take pills etc. No, just no. Deadly amounts of radiation will never reach 5,000 miles away from a meltdown, which hasn't even happened yet, so people need to stop freaking out.

We've established that the OP's original content is from an unreliable source. What we are trying to do now is get real information, if you don't have any please stop posting what so many others have already.

K. Thanks..

And yet the OP keeps getting stars and praise from people. ATS is making me sick.

I've heard that you can "paint" plain old "betadine" on your skin in small amounts to absorb potassium idodine, is anyone familiar with this technique ... anyone know how much to use??

reply to post by SMR


For one thing the fukushima plant is nothing like the structure of the Chernobyl plant also the chernobyl plant spewed masses of debris high into the atmosphere...which allowed debris into the jetstream...and even so it still did produce rad but it did not produce mass deaths globally.....
Meltdown does not mean explosions it means the possible leakage of radition into surrounding areas....yes the were explosions but it you look at them and the hieght compared to the towers at the plant it certainly is not kilometres into the air.
even the second explosion the debris cloud was only approx 3 times the height of the towers....once agin people spreading needless fear....for what reason.....why would you want to unnecessarily frieghten people...now as said earlier ....the radiation from Hiroshima or Nagasaki did not rain mass amounts of radiation down on the citizens of the US.
will there be the possibility of some radio active material...possible.
Will there be a rain of deadly material....not likely.

reply to post by darkest4


Never say never. While there hasn't been a complete meltdown, a major explosion at those plants could send enough RADS to the West Coast that would be harmful for some. Not saying it will. Not saying it cant.
But if you look at the amounts that came over from triple the distance, look at the map again and picture relative, Japan and the West Coast of the US

You may not be worried, but some are and for you to be upset about that is silly.
There is a serious situation going on right now that has people scared.
Rather than ranting with explicit words and anger, why not try and explain why they should stay calm for the time being. You might get commended for it