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Originally Posted by godwine
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but one thing I don't understand is that, why are you still insisting that its not safe and that people should evacuate?
The situation is under control, they are now doing more measurements, and so far the risk is very low. It is not fair to say that they "Don't have the information you have", because they definitely have the information, first hand too. I don't think its in their government's interest to just let its citizen expose to severe dose of radiation, they are the one country that knows the impact of a nuclear disaster (Nagasaki, Hiroshima), they know the consequences and the effect
And what makes you say that pumping seawater will cause future cooling issue? Every single specialist and expert suggest that the action of pumping sea water may not work, but now that it worked nobody is saying anything about its impact to future cooling. Unless you know something beyond all the experts in North America or Asia (I said ASIA, not just JAPAN, because there are more than Japanese expert looking at this).
And what will your suggestion for the map do? It only shows you data of how much radiation is given around a certain area... TODAY, what are you going to compare it to? I think the first thing that you yourself and people with similar mentalities will first need to understand the impact of the different level of radiation. We are expose to different type of radiation daily.
I am not sure why its surreal to you (btw its Tamagochi...), maybe you are just really proud of yourself and your country, so automatically thinks that you all know more and better than Japan. To me, THATS surreal...
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Originally Posted by godwine
Fair enough, and as I said, I would be scared too if I am reading the same source you are reading.
But if you look at sites and news from Taiwan, US, Canada, China and most importantly Japan, they are reporting problems and they are reporting issues with the plant, but its under control. The current concentration for most news agencies with the mentioned countries are all all surrounding either Libya or they own local affairs. People are not jumping up and down over Fukushima because they don't see the value of it now that the situation is under control (Sadly, yes, mass media are happy over disaster)
If its as bad as what you saw, I am sure everyone will be all over it, especially the US, they have troops working there right now helping you know
I just saw a picture of US military cleaning the flight deck of their carrier, trying to get rid of any radiation that it maybe exposed to. That said, the troops are wearing standard military uniform, no mask, just cloth wrapped around their face. The fact that they are cleaning the deck means they are aware of the radiation level there, but the fact that they are only cleaning it and not getting away form it means that its not high risk. Not to mention the troops are not wearing protective gear, and that cloth around the face is probably meant to fight against whatever chemical is used in the cleaning solvent.
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Originally Posted by godwine
You are still only giving me figures out of no where. Why 500KM? The level of radiation is nowhere closed to what happend at Chernobyl. The Chernobyl incident was sad, but the darn thing basically went through a complete meltdown
Fukushima is in a far more different situation, its not a complete meltdown, they are doing whatever it takes to contain the issue, and it appears to be working and stabilize
So, quantify why 500KM...
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As far as i can understand, every efforts are being put in to attempt to contain the problem so that it may not deteriorate into a more serious problem (eg: meltdown).
i am all this while thinking that the condition is still serious and volatile at least up to today.
Care to share your source of info?