japan earthquakes aftermath

    Quote from Jetsetlemming

    yes plz someone translate I'm curious. If they're saying the US is in any danger... that's bogus.

    Not just "in danger", 750 rads is a super fatal dose. They're pretty much saying Japan could be the apocalypse.

    1 rad = 1 rem = 0.01 sv. check the above chart.

    take into account that this is gradually accumulated, not instant. over time, the body will remove at least some of the radiation present.

    A. 7.5 SV is fatal even with treatment, as per the chart.

    B. The graph of 750 rads hitting America is a piece of fiction, made up by complete fucking assholes.

    C. It's grossly irresponsible to be reprinting it anywhere. People are poisoning themselves with iodine overdoses over this shit. There are runs on fucking SALT in some places. Salt!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_poisoning

    obviously you still don't understand that even if what has been shown happened, it wouldn't be a fatal dose because it wouldn't be instant. also, 7.5 != 8

    and if people are overdosing on iodine, they deserve to win a darwin award. it doesn't take 10 minutes to find information about how radiation works, and how to best protect oneself.

    Quote from Jetsetlemming

    You apparently see the line between "short term" and "long term" as "instant" vs "everything else".

    it's not going to come in 1 day, believe me. even over a week the dose would have been significantly dampened.

    It's not going to come by at all, but if it did, getting a fatal total dose of radiation spread out over even a year would mean you're pretty screwed, and the "flight time" of radioactive smoke coming from Japan would be two weeks or so.

    Quote from the0rthopaedicsurgeon

    The BBC has been like this since the day after the quake. At the time, the plant was under control and being cooled. It only became more serious a few days ago when it caught fire and even then it's still not as serious as it's made out to be. But while tens of thousands were still missing (and an oil refinery burnt not far away, which says it all about nuclear vs fossil fuels and how people perceive them), they almost totally ignored that and went on and on about 'nuclear explosions' or getting Greenpeace in to tell us all how this will be like Chernobyl x100.A nuclear reactor survives one of the world's worst ever natural disasters and everyone starts calling for nuclear to be abandoned. BP causes one of the worst man-made disasters in all of history, and months later we're back to deep-water drilling.

    The reporting on this disaster has been awful. Like you said all these claims were made almost instantly, as did Green Peace coming out with their "too soon?" commentary on nuclear power. At the time this was going on the reported radiation levels were, despite being some scary looking numbers, at 30 banana's. Though of course it's much worse now. And a lot of the American coverage seems to be about how it'll affect them, or maybe I'm just being directed to the wrong ones.

    Incidentally, there was a fantastically hateful piece in the Daily Mail:

    Why my wife's PoW grandad wouldn't mark a minute's silence for the Japanese by Richard Littlejohn.

    Quote from Jetsetlemming

    It's not going to come by at all, but if it did, getting a fatal total dose of radiation spread out over even a year would mean you're pretty screwed, and the "flight time" of radioactive smoke coming from Japan would be two weeks or so.

    yea, except no. check the links instead of bullshitting.

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