worldwide fallout

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2011-04-05 15:20

According to fallout maps, the air has radioactive waste fallout worldwide. We can assume the same is true for the ocean, fresh water, and soil. Let's use chernobyl as our yardstick. It took more than 7 months to contain that reactor. Japan has at least 3, if not more, reactors that are melting down. So around 2 years from now we can expect the problem to be controlled. Can we get an estimate of accumulated fallout at this average. Please address strontium, barium and other radiotoxins.

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Fukushima is not Chernobyl.

Submitted by Brian (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 18:18.

Fukushima is not Chernobyl.

At Chernobyl, due to (even more) horrible reactor design and management, the reactor exploded in super-criticality, dispersing the entire contents of the reactor into the atmosphere and surrounding area. At Japan, even if there is some continued criticality (uncertain at this point) the reactor core is essentially sitting in a pile on the floor, leaching out some junk through the water.

Accumulated fallout is not something we can really estimate from our measurements.

Brian [BRAWM team member]

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 18:21.

thought they were getting you a login like the rest of the team so that (not verified) wouldn't appear after your name?

re: worldwide fallout

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 15:50.

You might want to check out the following sites. Also,anyone reading here has got to know that with the massive release of Plutonium and other nuclear materials from Fukushima into the ocean all seafood especially bottom feeders such as crustaceans now has the possibility of containing them; who really wants to unwittingly ingest Plutonium or any other nucleide with half lives of up to a million years? This does not bode well for seafood industries if enough people become aware of the reality of the situation unless the media does a better job of concealing the facts by their conspicuous silence. Does anyone reading here notice that now the media is almost silent as regards the crisis in Japan?

Here's some sites for you to check out:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/radiation-experts-radiation-standards-a...

Check back daily from the home page at zerohedge.com, scroll down for updates since the site owners seem to be taking the matter seriously.

http://www.euradcom.org/publications/publications.htm

http://www.euradcom.org/publications/fukushima19032011.pdf

http://www.llrc.org/

http://ocean.tamu.edu/Quarterdeck/QD3.2/Brooks/baskaran.html

Plutonium and Cesium in the Kara Sea (found while looking for information concerning worldwide history of Plutonium fallout)

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979168993
Japan Fukushima Daiichi 3/28: Radiation to Leak "for Months"

http://www.thelocal.se/7200/20070504/
Swedes still dying from Chernobyl radiation
(comparison with results of Chernobyl will give a good idea of what is to be expected. Multiply by the quantity of Japan's reactors and my best guess is Fukushima's contamination will be worse over the long term.)

http://www.richeast.org/htwm/chernobyl/chernobyl.html
Chernobyl, cause and effect.

http://www.euradcom.org/publications/chernobylbook2009.htm

ECRR Chernobyl 20 Years On: Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident
Second Edition
(Note: the downloadable first edition is still available)

(quote from forward to book)

Run like a dog and flee like a hare’

This volume is dedicated to the Chernobyl ‘liquidators’.

They gave their lives so that Europe could remain inhabitable.

They were poorly repaid.

"Chernobyl-type disasters pose a profound danger to global stability. In short, human civilisation has become hostage to the vagaries of nuclear technology."