Fukushima revisited

[Jered]

So when are we going to see roving mobs of people infected with radioactive ebola?

[evan price]

Does radiation cause the gay? Has there been an alarming spike in homosexual activity since the Fukushima mess?

[Old Grafton]

So when are we going to see roving mobs of people infected with radioactive ebola?

Soon, I hope. That would certainly make detection easier and they'd have a pretty short half-life.

[evan price]

I believe these are Fukushima-irradiated flies, can anyone confirm?

[D5CAV]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345uegSj-zQ

I'm glad so many find humor in two nuclear cores doing the "China Syndrome."

Since Japan is about 12 time-zones away from the US, it's true that for most of the denizens of this site, the risks are minimal (unless any of you regularly enjoy pacific caught tuna or swordfish).

That's why I noted that the issue was Japan's.

Just to remind y'all on some ancient history, It was one (1) core at Chernobyl, and it never went the full "China Syndrome". The reactor core was contained and entombed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

Not Fukushima. Like Elvis, at least two (2) of the six cores at Fukushima Dai-ichi have "left the building". They haven't been able to "find" a third core.

Oh yeah, and someone thought it was a good idea to save money on expensive Japanese real estate and put a swimming pool for spent fuel rods on the third floor of one of the reactor buildings - on a known earthquake fault. I hope whoever got the bonus for saving Tepco all that money has the honor to disembowel himself.

For all of it's failings, the old Soviet Union actually acknowledged the Chernobyl disaster for what it was and evacuated everyone who would willingly leave (there are still some diehard wackos living in the Chernobyl area).

The Japanese government is still whistling past the graveyard hoping no-one will notice.

Kind of like what they're doing with Japanese government bonds.

[Jericho941]

Not Fukushima. Like Elvis, at least two (2) of the six cores at Fukushima Dai-ichi have "left the building". They haven't been able to "find" a third core.

Thus far something only claimed on conspiracy websites. The kind of jerks claiming the NOAA wave height map is a tracker of radioactive material from Japan.

[Windy Wilson]

Not Fukushima. Like Elvis, at least two (2) of the six cores at Fukushima Dai-ichi have "left the building". They haven't been able to "find" a third core.

Thus far something only claimed on conspiracy websites. The kind of jerks claiming the NOAA wave height map is a tracker of radioactive material from Japan.

There's also some sort of story going around the parents of school-aged children here about how the Monterey Bay Aquarium measures some sort of dead plant and animal detritus somewhere on the ocean floor, and since the Fukushima accident, the level of this (and I use the term used by purportedly educated parents of school-aged children around here, "sea snot" has gone from the low two digits in percentages to near 100%, whatever such a scary increase can mean. "The ocean is dying", as told to me by a holder of a bachelor's degree in architecture AND full California licensing in the same. No awareness of the size of anything.

[Yogimus]

The plant at chernobyl was operational till 2000. 16 years after the meltdown.

[MiddleAgedKen]

Everyone who eats fish from the Pacific Ocean is guaranteed to die.

[D5CAV]

Everyone who eats fish from the Pacific Ocean is guaranteed to die.

... eventually

Jeez! I said Japan!

Risk to bathers in Monterey Bay? Pretty close to zero.

Tuna and Swordfish are apex predators, though. Any bad stuff gets concentrated in their flesh.

Risk from nuke runoff from Fukushima concentrating in Tuna and Swordfish? About the same as mercury concentrating in the fish, which is greater than zero.

I know an older gentlemen who made considerable money in SF. He chose to spend some of it eating sushi for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He is now suffering from advanced mercury poisoning and has a full-time caretaker. I won't go into the symptoms, but it isn't fun.

It did take him about 20 years, though. I guess about the same mortality effects as sucking down a couple of Cohiba Lanceros a day for 20 years. Me, I'd rather suck down the Cohibas. You can keep the fish.