I'm sorry - You have to understand that I consider this to be front page material, of potential concern AT LEAST to anyone living or with family on
the west coast of the US, in or around Hawaii or Japan, as well as the western cost of canada. The amount of radiation leaked TO DATE warrants
cautionary action by governments world-wide, including educating its people and testing all imported consumables with a potential to be contaminated.
That's not fear-mongering, it's common sense.
You created an entire thread, and pointed to one article that is largely false as your support, centered on the notion that the "stupid" calls to
attention and of concern regarding the incident need to stop. I submit, that the more I read about it, the worse I discover it to be. It seems that
every day brings more BAD NEWS, with no mention whatsoever of the potentially ongoing criticality from the 3 coriums
TEPCO doesn't even know where are...
The only clear fact here, to me at least, is that we've migrated into the land of Neverhappenedbefore - no one really know's exactly what would
happen if 3 still fissiling nuclear reactor core's remained critical out in the wild, unimpeded. Chine Syndrome? And if so, what happens when all
that nuclear fuel makes it to the super-hot liquid-rock mantle beneath the crust?
What is the result of that much caesium being introduced into the ocean - quantities of that size will eventually permeate the lower levels of the
food chain as dead bodies and waste accumulate in the ocean normally; radiation that's guranteed to work it's way up the food chain if not at least
contaminating its environment.
What of the core fuel itself; if it's not carving slowly through the earth's crust like a hot knife through butter it's floating somewhere,
poisoning the water table and the ocean at large with each passing day.
Hell,
what are the observable effects of still-reacting coriums swisscheesing the bedrock under your island?
We don't know. That's pretty #ing scary, if you ask me. One thing I found interesting: nowhere in that did I read a single soul calling for anything
radical except greater awareness coupled with meaningful action from the world's powers...like testing the food sold within it's borders when faced
with a potential contimination event of this magnitude. That seems like a pretty good use of all that tax "they" take from you every year, at
gunpoint if necessary, to keep the lights on. I'd say "mitigating a radiological disaster" falls squarely on the shoulder's of government in even
the sparsest of models.
So I have to ask - In your original post...I'm trying to wrap my head around it and the only thing I find, frankly, to be stupid - is your uninformed
and relative dismissal of it's importance, going so far to imbed a patently false quote indicating there is no proof of radiation in biologically
relevant doses and calling that reason enough to "STOP THE STUPID".
Could you point out which dog in this fight is your's for me, please?
This is abovetopsecret, with a reputation for exposing the truth via an above-average-informed base.... yet you thought there was so much uninformed
fear-mongering and much ado about nothing to dedicate a thread to putting a stop to it?
Sir. I cry foul.