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Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by muzzleflash
The jet stream is at 30,000+ feet over Japan. Very little, if any, material is carried that high. Even less would settle back to the surface at any particular location. The minute amount of material which has been detected on the west coast would have been carried by lower level winds.
Originally posted by Phage
I'm far more concerned about Japan, Korea, and China than I am about North America or elsewhere in this crisis.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
Why? Isn't the Jet stream carrying the largest amounts of the fallout cloud over the pacific ocean directly towards North America and then onwards to Europe? Appears that's the case.
Now I do expect the wind to shift south of Fukushima soon, directly towards Tokyo, but it will still bend out towards the pacific yet again.
I don't even think the wind can go towards China from Fukushima. If so, I will admit ignorance on the subject but I am almost pretty sure the wind does not go that direction. (Jet Streams)
Yeah I checked again to make sure.
www.wunderground.com...
How could you have missed this Phage? There's no way China or Korea are down wind from this thing.
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by muzzleflash
The jet stream is at 30,000+ feet over Japan. Very little, if any, material is carried that high. Even less would settle back to the surface at any particular location. The minute amount of material which has been detected on the west coast would have been carried by lower level winds.
A superheated column of air will rise to the jet stream, IF these reactors meltdown, or lose any cooling for a long period of time.
If (very unlikely) there is a complete meltdown, literally tons of radioactive particulates could reach the jet stream.
In WWII the Japanese released balloons from Japan after studying the Jet stream, with the intent to start fires in the west coast USA using incendiary devices attached to these balloons... It took only 2 days for them to reach Oregon from Japan.
As long as things are stable, and cooling is maintained at these damaged reactors, then we have nothing to worry about in the western USA.
To assume that the worst can't happen, is completely foolish, and ignorant.
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