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03-15-2011, 09:55 PM | #692 |
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feel free to. It wont mean a damned thing. People who lived within a few god-damned kilos did not get more than a hundred or so mSv the weeks after the blast, and after a few months, almost everything in the entire freaking map outside the plant was basically free of radiation.
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Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant By ERIC TALMADGE and SHINO YUASA Associated Press Mar 15, 11:18 PM EDT FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Japan suspended operations to prevent a stricken nuclear plant from melting down Wednesday after a surge in radiation made it too dangerous for workers to remain at the facility. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said work on dousing reactors with water was disrupted by the need to withdraw. The level of radiation at the plant surged to 1,000 millisieverts early Wednesday before coming down to 800-600 millisieverts. Still, that was far more than the average http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...03-15-23-18-17
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03-15-2011, 09:57 PM | #694 |
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Its been several days. After about a week, they would have been shutdown cold. Chernobyl was bad primarily because it blew up almost instantly after a problem was detected. At this point in time, after many days of being sprayed and dunked in water, its doubtful that they will burn through several feet of concrete.
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They aren't. In a few days this media-hyped panic in Japan will look utterly reeruned.
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Stop hyperventalating and look at the cold hard facts on what amount of radiation is, or is not, present in those areas, right now, compared to what the sun blasts you with everyday and what it takes to be harmed. People are stupid. If the government tells them they can move back into Chernobyl, a lot of them would scream, and if anyone can make up a BS story that they got cancer after being told it was now safe, they'd sue. Russia is big, might as well fence it off.
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FWIW, when talking about safety, you should consult the supralinear hypothesis of Karl Z. Morgan, who was a pioneer in the field of health physics. It was assumed for many years that you could predict the rate of malignancy per the total amount of radiation that people were exposed to. Basically, for every 1,000 person-rems (old terminology) of exposure, you would get one cancer. It didn't matter how evenly it was spread, whether 500 person-rems to two people or 1 to 1000, you would get an equivalent number of cancers Well, in fact this is incorrect. The supralinear hypothesis suggests that the wider you spread out of the dose the more cancers you will have at those lower levels, even if each individual is getting a smaller total dose. In essence, there is no safe, sub-clinical dose of radiation, and while your rate of cancer goes up with the amount of exposure, those small exposures are actually more dangerous per unit dose.
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03-15-2011, 10:05 PM | #701 |
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For anyone who is interested in how "overwrought" Chernobyl was, look up Becquerel Reindeer.
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You ingest a particle of plutonium, you're dead. Do not cross Go, do not collect $200. You will get cancer, and you will die. You ingest strontium 90 and you can expect an awesome case of bone cancer or leukemia. Those areas are now, due to decay, safe for short term exposures, but only the stupidest of fools would live anywhere near there.
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