The design of the reactors has thus far meant that no radiation has been released at a level harmful to human health. And those levels are slowly residing and should continue to as long as the cores keep cooling.
It was always going to be a concern but was blown way out of proportion
The reactor was on borrowed time anyway, it was pretty old to start with. I think the whole plant is a write off now, will be interesting to see how the power grid copes
bob : to quote Dr helen Caldicott
only one reactor blew at chernobyl and it was only three months old with new cores holding relatively little radiation/
these ones have been operating for forty yrs and would hold about30x more radiation than chernobyls
aus is not going to be affected by fallout because southern and northern air masses dont mix
no level of radiation is safe thats my bit www.whatreallyhappened.com
have a look
Had a look, id prefer to weight up facts for myself, not from an opinion piece.
Of course its not going to be affected by fallout - no where will at this rate!!!!! Do you know how much radiation you are exposed to travelling on an international flight? Having a Xray? Standing near a fuse board for a multistory building?
I note Japan just upgraded their rating of the nuclear accident though. Still a couple of ratings before its the same as chenobyll though.
well that made sense / i would say the customs guy would wave a magic wand over it and say its ok //and then charge the appropriate fee // as usual / unless its an extra charge for being from a radiated area / more charges?
russian customs have quarantined a shipment of japanese 2nd hand cars in vladivostok due to high levels of radiation they will probably send them back they came off a ship that had intensive beta radiation wonder what aus customs would do
In other news, another earthquake hit japan last night with a 1m tsunami reaching the coast...
Apparently the effects of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake was so severe it actually effected the earth's rotational force and we lost time, as well as also shifting how the planets 'mass' is distributed!
I tried to work out how many seconds that equates to over a whole year, but my calculator here at work doesnt allow for such scientific calculations and brainie no workie today to do it by hand/paper.
Well a full year's worth is 657 microseconds, and a million microseconds in a second, so a million divided by 657 is 1522! Sooo it would take 1522 years to make a second's worth unless my maths is horrible.
It's happening again, another earthquake just 50km off the coast of japan this morning reading 6.7 magnitude. Hopefully this one results in no or very minimal effects. Someone or something must of really pissed off Mother Nature over the past 12 months!
this is beyond stuffed/ reactors one two and three melted down within hours of the quake /reactor 4 is leaning over
the radiation will never stop and their roadmap to cleaning up the fuel rods in the bottom of the reactors will probably start in 10yrs
once they develop the technology to do it
check out www.news.lucaswhitefieldhixon.com
or www.rense.com / Not much in the mainstream media eh