tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068633250101025716.post1559438011459443854..comments2023-09-29T11:23:38.668+02:00Comments on For what we are... they will be: Fukushima: even the pro-nuclears admit to unstoppable China syndrome nowMajuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068633250101025716.post-7703532509184475442014-03-09T22:05:29.911+01:002014-03-09T22:05:29.911+01:00The problem is that the authorities (not just in J...The problem is that the authorities (not just in Japan but also in North America) are heavily under the nuclear lobby clout (which is not just civilian but maybe even more critically military - nuclear energy fever can be hardly understood without the nuclear enrichment and waste role in nuclear weapons). Both Canada and the USA have actually reduced testing and reporting on radiation levels since the Fukushima disaster, so unless citizen organizations begin doing their own testing, the information is likely not to flow or to flow only way too late. <br /><br />I read of some Native chief or activist from that area who said he's not eating salmon anymore, even if salmon is a most traditional food, almost staple, for them. <br /><br />Certainly the people living in the NE Pacific arch, from Chukotka to Baja California, are some of the most in danger, after Northern Japanese. Of course, all the planet is threatened to some extent but Japan and the NE Pacific arch are the most exposed of all. <br /><br />I have no idea how to solve the problem (it may well have no solution whatsoever because even containment seems beyond our foreseeable engineering capabilities) but what is clear is that ignoring it with a "pretend and extend" tactic is just mass murder. The greatest danger in all cases is for children, because they have to incorporate a lot more of the environment (food, water) in their growing bodies than adults do - and that's particularly sad and gruesome because they have absolutely no fault. <br /><br />It's a bit like child sacrifice to some monstrous deity of old. In this case the god of nukes. Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068633250101025716.post-61291780959453704132014-03-09T21:36:36.550+01:002014-03-09T21:36:36.550+01:00The March 9, 2014 issue of USA Today newspaper rep...The March 9, 2014 issue of USA Today newspaper reports that scientists on the west coast of the USA are calling for tests to measure the amount of radiation in the ocean here. According to their computer models, the radiation from the spillage should be reaching the Seattle area by ocean current about now. The computer models say that the radiation will be in very low amounts, but until there has been testing no one knows for sure. (If there was no reliable data released by the Japanese government, then the models can't be that accurate.)<br /><br />Anyway, we may have some more objective data soon about the degree of radiation poisoning in the ocean. People here (I live in Olympia, WA) are pretty concerned. We eat a lot of shellfish, etc.Clayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13747093567397999406noreply@blogger.com