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Originally Posted by dogsbody70
Please do not downplay the seriousness of the risk to the Japanese re radiation.
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Please do not overestimate or fear monger about it either.
Unlike in the case of Chernobyl, the situation is being monitored by numerous entities. TEPCO is not the only group able to check radiation levels, and to monitor the situation. The government is not trying to keep it all a secret, and monitoring equipment is now cheap enough that pretty much anyone can buy it.
It is not downplaying at all to say that there is no danger to those in Tokyo, and that you`re not going to eat contaminated food unless you walk around picking things from the side of the road in the affected areas.
No one has said that there are not going to be lasting, serious issues for the immediate area around the plant. But the core was not burning in the open like Chernobyl, and did not create massive clouds of high radiation to rain down upon huge areas. That simply did not happen, however much the media would like to fear monger about things.
Please keep in mind that the foreign media loves to hype things and keep viewers watching... So have seriously stretched the facts, and have been using "what if" scenarios so far removed from reality that it is not even funny...