Radiation Warning
In that case don't stand near a major road for any period of time.
The heavy metals and other nasties that you will absorb will make anything you pick up in Japan look like a minor Inconvenience.
The heavy metals and other nasties that you will absorb will make anything you pick up in Japan look like a minor Inconvenience.
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If you want to stand near a road like that Dehavdriver, thats your choice. To be sent there by your employer is a whole new ball game, especially when you know they don't give a ratz, and will certainly not compensate if you get ill down the track. After 49 years in the airline industry, I came to realise that you play ball with them and they will stick the bat up your ar$e everytime. Believe it.
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Please allow me to kick this thread to the top once again.
Despite all the downplaying, it now appears that the containment vessel of the #3 reactor has been damaged.
Furthermore, Asahi Shinbun, a Japanese newspaper website is suggesting that the level has been raised from 5 to 6, only one level below the Chernobyl meltdown. (nothing about this on CNN, BBC, Reuters etc)
While I understand that fear mongering leads to nothing, I'm also quite appalled by the way people on this thread are downplaying the deaths and health effects which can be caused from an exposure to radiation either short term or long term. Will these people also shrug their shoulders if a regional jet crashes resulting in "only 60 fatalities?"
Perhaps most in the Europe/UK don't really care because Japan is a long way from home, but as someone who works for an airline that flies to Japan and also trans Pacific I definitely DO care and I have a scary feeling that the media and authorities are plotting together in a massive cover up. What are the long term health effects of breathing possibly contaminated air on a 10-12 hour trans Pacific flight, downwind of Fukushima?
Obviously the bombing of some Northern African desert country is far more important than any critical reporting of health effects and accurate radiation levels in one of the most developed industrial countries in the world. Go figure...
Despite all the downplaying, it now appears that the containment vessel of the #3 reactor has been damaged.
Furthermore, Asahi Shinbun, a Japanese newspaper website is suggesting that the level has been raised from 5 to 6, only one level below the Chernobyl meltdown. (nothing about this on CNN, BBC, Reuters etc)
Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, crippled by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, has discharged more radiation than the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the United States, according to calculations by the central government.
It has already reached a level 6 serious accident on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES).
It has already reached a level 6 serious accident on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES).
Perhaps most in the Europe/UK don't really care because Japan is a long way from home, but as someone who works for an airline that flies to Japan and also trans Pacific I definitely DO care and I have a scary feeling that the media and authorities are plotting together in a massive cover up. What are the long term health effects of breathing possibly contaminated air on a 10-12 hour trans Pacific flight, downwind of Fukushima?
Obviously the bombing of some Northern African desert country is far more important than any critical reporting of health effects and accurate radiation levels in one of the most developed industrial countries in the world. Go figure...
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A history lesson from Chernobyl: The True Battle of Chernobyl Uncensored (1:33)
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Even now I agree this looks really bad, apparantly all workers have been evacuated due to extreme radiation levels at the plant, looks like containment has been breached. The food chain will be the one that cops it.
apparantly all workers have been evacuated due to extreme radiation levels at the plant
From the IAEA, 27/1330 UTC:
Radiation measurements in the containment vessels and suppression chambers of Units 1, 2 and 3 continued to decrease. White “smoke” continued to be emitted from Units 1 to 4.
Pressure in the RPV showed a slight increase at Unit 1 and was stable at Units 2 and 3, possibly indicating that there has been no major breach in the pressure vessels.
Pressure in the RPV showed a slight increase at Unit 1 and was stable at Units 2 and 3, possibly indicating that there has been no major breach in the pressure vessels.
