Chernobyl Times Ten Fukushima and the Radioactive Sea

http://www.counterpunch.org/wasserman05262011.html

New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are ten times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas during Chernobyl.

"When it comes to the oceans, says Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceonographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, "the impact of Fukushima exceeds Chernobyl."

The news comes amidst a tsunami of devastating revelations about the Fukushima disaster and the crumbling future of atomic power, along with a critical Senate funding vote today:

Fukushima's owner, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, has confirmed that fuel at Unit One melted BEFORE the arrival of the March 11 tsunami.


More at the link --

and basically it's just another day in America as far as the reaction

of the American public going about their barequing yesterday and recovering today --

Why care about the Gulf either -- as Obama said "The Gulf will bounce back!" --



Yikes!!

I thought the cause of the meltdowns was the backup generators (that ran the cooling system) getting damaged by the water :shrug:

"ten times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas during Chernobyl"

Which conveniently ignores the fact that the Baltic and Black Seas are hundreds of miles from Chernobyl. And that even at the time, the amount of contamination found there was negligible. :eyes:

Just more factually inaccurate nonsense and fearmongering. Nice.

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Without giving the reader the fine print that ten times nothing is still almost nothing. It's spin and propaganda. You could just as easily say that wind turbines get 10 times more complaints from locals than burning LNG, but if the actual rates are 2 complaints per thousand population and 20 per thousand population, it's so statistically insignificant that the claim itself amounts to bullshit, attempting to make a flashy headline to scare people.

But thanks for the personal insults. Nothing like attacking the messenger to show that you've got no facts on your side.

:sarcasm:

And it is under control.

And if you don't believe that, you are a rabblerousing chicken little. Or so I hear.