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5x as many people died in the Tsunami, there was little to no warning for preparation, a freaking Nuclear Disaster happened.... and no one needed to call out 58,000 National Guardsmen to handle the problem... the roads weren't "not working" 6 days later let alone 6 months.
And you're telling this guy from Japan... he's basically responsible for deaths, that's just WRONG. We INVENTED this crap WE should lead the way in encouraging it's elimination.
TheWetCoast
reply to post by penninja
The problem with Fukushima is that the problem is beyond the ability of humanity to fix at this point. This problem will affect EVERYONE within 5-10 years. Consider the economic impact to the world if Japan has to be evacuated(this could/will happen). "IT" has been hitting the fan for two and half years and it seem that the bulk of humanity is blissfully unaware.
The MASSIVE amounts of RADIATION being released from Fukushima WILL directly impact my life as well as about 20 million other people within 3-5 years in North America. By that time Japan will be well on it's way to becoming uninhabitable. At this point I believe the survival of humanity dwarfs all other considerations.
penninja
reply to post by tetra50
Yeah well, look at your choice of words...
"destroyed it forever" in reference to your life. Do I know Japanese people, yeah plenty of them and I have never once heard that kind of expression.
5x as many people died in the Tsunami, there was little to no warning for preparation, a freaking Nuclear Disaster happened.... and no one needed to call out 58,000 National Guardsmen to handle the problem... the roads weren't "not working" 6 days later let alone 6 months.
And you're telling this guy from Japan... he's basically responsible for deaths, that's just WRONG. We INVENTED this crap WE should lead the way in encouraging it's elimination.
And honestly all i'm saying is IF this was America, we'd handle it A LOT worse than they are and all this guy is doing is keeping calm and actually examining facts...
You...I didn't say boo to you really and you threw like 7 psuedo F Bombs at me... GO MURICA
It's point in place they can handle it better than we can. They aren't talking armageddon they are working on it, people aren't hiding in barns to survive they went out and fixed stuff immediately, who the heck is talking about you "personally"
The guys staying calm, that's not an agenda, Americans are prone to freaking out... we are Yahoos by comparison "Iran MIGHT get a bomb, let's kill 300,000 people on the maybe" Normal people don't act like that, it's a joke already...
This whole thread is a joke.... essentially it says "we are the best at everything" when by far we are the worst offenders in the industry, we handle crisis like idiots, and advocates taking action when we have no answer either as IF that would help when in reality... lately we screw up everything we intervene in...
penninja
reply to post by TheWetCoast
I'm an avid Surfer, have been since I was a wee lad.
As I watch the density of radioactive flow head on almost a direct line to San Diego, it really annoys the crap out of me, my favorite food in the world is sushi, honestly the longest lived people in the world eat a lot of fish and I am very sure it increases intelligence.
So you know what i think? I think I need to get into the fish farming business.
I also think working harder because the world is full of problems is important because we are pretty close to making cancer go bye bye...and I can make a real financial contribution to that cause.
I also look at more esoteric ideas like magnetism and gravity and how one might be able to speed up the rate of atomic decay
I have supplemented Potassium Iodine since this began... because yeah it will have an impact.
And... no surfing without a wet suit and at least a nose plug... EVEN THOUGH the reality is, even the densest flow is infinitely LESS likely to give me cancer at the moment being only slightly above acceptable levels allowed in the water supply than for example... the God Damned Nuclear subs sitting in the bay doing a release while i'm out on my board...
I live in the real world...
The real world is one where the USA puts more toxic crap into the air and water than the rest of the world combined every damned dog day, the real world is... only taking care of myself and being aware MIGHT stop me from dying of cancer too young and THAT ISSUE already existed before this.
Again... Fukushima ... people are working on solutions.
The "lifestyle" that led to the need for that power plant and it even existing is running full speed ahead... and we are the ones funding it.
At THIS moment... there exists a POSSIBILITY, endless POSSIBILITIES that something "Novel" will be done that NO ONE can predict, there is great reason for hope, to be positive to TRY in regards to Fukushima the TRUTH the SCIENCE... The Ocean is radio active as heck in the first place... I'm in Northern AZ, there is Uranium in the damned soil, also Anthrax, bubonic plague is local, i'm near where just tons of nuclear material was released in both New Mexico and Nevada.... I'm fine.
The bug spray my landlord wants me to use, San Onofrio sitting on the San Andreas.... or the Jesus H Christ large plant outside of Phoenix with not a drop of water in sight in an emergency, the genetically modified food, the 5 Million peoples car exhaust daily... Do I need to go on?
Cancer in the water... yeah
Tons of it already
There is nothing to do but look for legitimate fixes... and not freak out, chances are you already have cancer, be well don't stress you might hold it at bay until 90...
I look on the bright side... A century ago, the root canal I needed would have killed me at 22, today we have vast technology, I think we'll win the race...
So screw the doom, do something useful in the meantime, you probably picked up the cause of the big C when it gets to you when you were 7 playing with a roach motel or something... there's so much crap in your water already... WE as a NATION are to blame for that.
It is highly interesting and i will look for it too,
but Fukushima got a Water Cleaning Facility which remove 99%
of all Nuclides, except Tritium
but Cesium, Plutonium or Strontium get cleaned up.
We know already a few Minerals who absorb Radiation,
Zeolite, Boron are just two but the Problem remain:
"What are we doing with this contaminated Minerals
after they done their Job and is this really less risky"!
And finally "Russian Today" is a really bad Hoax Station,
Non-Stop of Yellow Journalsim and we must be very careful
with their Stories and Headlines!
But Science is the only Way to solve our global Problems!
reply to post by crankyoldman
I understand your Anger and you will be more angry but i need to say it again:
there is no proof or evidence of a so called "China Syndrome",
or at least i do not saw any,
you should write: "in my Opinion (imo.) there is a China Syndrome"!
edit on 23-9-2013 by Human0815 because: add one more Reply!
Based on the data I wrote down six months ago: ongoing Cesium 137 release equaled about 650 lethal doses Every two hours(If you were to have an orderly line); Cesium 134 would add at least another 325; the rest of the isotopes(excluding Uranium and Plutonium) would bring this total up to at least 1250 lethal doses every two hours(with the orderly line). The numbers listed are for one month and are cumulative. The bulk of this radiation has been dumped into the Pacific Ocean so the effects SEEM to be minimal at this point. I need accurate information, and I need ALL of it for my numbers to be useful.
penninja
reply to post by TheWetCoast
I'm an avid Surfer, have been since I was a wee lad.
As I watch the density of radioactive flow head on almost a direct line to San Diego, it really annoys the crap out of me, my favorite food in the world is sushi, honestly the longest lived people in the world eat a lot of fish and I am very sure it increases intelligence.
So you know what i think? I think I need to get into the fish farming business.
I also think working harder because the world is full of problems is important because we are pretty close to making cancer go bye bye...and I can make a real financial contribution to that cause.
I also look at more esoteric ideas like magnetism and gravity and how one might be able to speed up the rate of atomic decay
I have supplemented Potassium Iodine since this began... because yeah it will have an impact.
And... no surfing without a wet suit and at least a nose plug... EVEN THOUGH the reality is, even the densest flow is infinitely LESS likely to give me cancer at the moment being only slightly above acceptable levels allowed in the water supply than for example... the God Damned Nuclear subs sitting in the bay doing a release while i'm out on my board...
I live in the real world...
The real world is one where the USA puts more toxic crap into the air and water than the rest of the world combined every damned dog day, the real world is... only taking care of myself and being aware MIGHT stop me from dying of cancer too young and THAT ISSUE already existed before this.
Again... Fukushima ... people are working on solutions.
The "lifestyle" that led to the need for that power plant and it even existing is running full speed ahead... and we are the ones funding it.
At THIS moment... there exists a POSSIBILITY, endless POSSIBILITIES that something "Novel" will be done that NO ONE can predict, there is great reason for hope, to be positive to TRY in regards to Fukushima the TRUTH the SCIENCE... The Ocean is radio active as heck in the first place... I'm in Northern AZ, there is Uranium in the damned soil, also Anthrax, bubonic plague is local, i'm near where just tons of nuclear material was released in both New Mexico and Nevada.... I'm fine.
The bug spray my landlord wants me to use, San Onofrio sitting on the San Andreas.... or the Jesus H Christ large plant outside of Phoenix with not a drop of water in sight in an emergency, the genetically modified food, the 5 Million peoples car exhaust daily... Do I need to go on?
Cancer in the water... yeah
Tons of it already
There is nothing to do but look for legitimate fixes... and not freak out, chances are you already have cancer, be well don't stress you might hold it at bay until 90...
I look on the bright side... A century ago, the root canal I needed would have killed me at 22, today we have vast technology, I think we'll win the race...
So screw the doom, do something useful in the meantime, you probably picked up the cause of the big C when it gets to you when you were 7 playing with a roach motel or something... there's so much crap in your water already... WE as a NATION are to blame for that.
reply to post by penninja
YOU are the CREEP accusing a hopeful Japanese Guy of somehow being responsible for deaths...
I've offered A LOT of things we can do... One of them being, REALIZE we are the ones actually pushing this crap technology
This is based off of data released over six months ago. These numbers might need to be multiplied by 5-10 times to be accurate.
TheWetCoast
reply to post by penninja
The amount of radiation flushed into the Pacific Ocean thus far is at least 450,000 lethal doses per day. The Pacific ocean IS huge, but at some point in time the cumulative effects will catch up with us.
penninja
reply to post by tetra50
This is like debating Honey Boo Boo
YOU Attacked a Japanese guy as if he somehow has complicity in these events for staying calm.
I DID offer a solution, YOUR country has 104 RUNNING NUCLEAR REACTORS half are out of date... GENERAL ELECTRIC an AMERICAN COMPANY designed the reactor. AMERICA needs to stop attacking everybody, Wake Up to it's COMPLICITY in these events, START closing these ticking time bombs, STOP selling the technology abroad.
People WILL DIE, Yes, that can't be helped now... SOLUTIONS. I gave you the TRUTH and that is what we SEEK HERE. We Can't STOP it, we can only control the damage, the Only improvement will NOW be to DO as these Nasty foreigners are doing like the Germans and the Japanese and close the rest as JAPAN mainly is doing to the best of their ability. SO NO MORE HAPPENS, it IS NOT the End of the freakin world BUT IT WILL BE IF YOUR NATION KEEPS BUILDING THIS CRAP
I don't care about your feelings or your personal grudges. THERE ARE NO SOLUTIONS to the problem that is Fukushima.
penninja
reply to post by tetra50
This is like debating Honey Boo Boo
YOU Attacked a Japanese guy as if he somehow has complicity in these events for staying calm.
I DID offer a solution, YOUR country has 104 RUNNING NUCLEAR REACTORS half are out of date... GENERAL ELECTRIC an AMERICAN COMPANY designed the reactor. AMERICA needs to stop attacking everybody, Wake Up to it's COMPLICITY in these events, START closing these ticking time bombs, STOP selling the technology abroad.
People WILL DIE, Yes, that can't be helped now... SOLUTIONS. I gave you the TRUTH and that is what we SEEK HERE. We Can't STOP it, we can only control the damage, the Only improvement will NOW be to DO as these Nasty foreigners are doing like the Germans and the Japanese and close the rest as JAPAN mainly is doing to the best of their ability. SO NO MORE HAPPENS, it IS NOT the End of the freakin world BUT IT WILL BE IF YOUR NATION KEEPS BUILDING THIS CRAP
I don't think the corium can drop below the water table. It will all end up in the Pacific Ocean(unless we see another fire).
Sk8ergrl
Hang on what happens when the fuel rods mix with the earths magma? could it cause a super volcano that sets off all the others around the ring of fire? bloody hell we can't leave this to one country this was suppose to have been a world wide involvement but no Tepco decided to keep it hush hush and black-out internationals. Won't ceramic be able to handle the heat or diamond?