It is almost natural behaviour of people to react negatively on some technological failure that can cause harm to man’s health. We should consider that this is temporary situation. Let’s be realistic because of this accident, nuclear plants will not be stopped or shut down. All we can do is to ask for higher security rules. We are still much depended on nuke energy.
The spin zone has a huge footprint. How's that, two neologisms in one sentence.
The press back around Three Mile Island was a bit tamer than today's media. Too many smart people out there, although the dangers of this have not been examined to any degree of detail. Just a lot of spin.
This data indicates that we're having a populist moment, those periods when the public just gets it. It may or may not last but it's here now. There was a similar period prior to the invasion of Iraq when majorities of both parties opposed any invasion until weapons inspections confirmed that Hussein had WMD. The aftermath of this tragedy will be available for many to see, regardless of press focus.
WHERE IS MY LOAN MODIFICATION BANK OF DESTROYING AMERICA!
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BofA and it’s CEO Brian Moynihan reminds me of that song by John Lennon and George Harrison titled "Piggies" I invite you to listen to this song on youtube and see if it appropriately fits.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovD9rTzs2q4&feature=player_embedded
.
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.
.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
.
In their ties with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.
.
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
.
When I filed my lawsuit against Bank of America, I thought of the many others out there in the same situation. It was then that we decided to educate the public on what these piggy banks are doing, as well as unite us all together as one voice. Please help me turn this David vs. Goliath modification process, into a Goliath vs. Goliath.
.
Please stand with me and Brookstone Law Firm, and send an email to Bank of Abusing America that states that we will no longer tolerate their potentially illegal, fraudulent, irregular and abusive business methods.
.
So please send your email directly to Bank of America and include the following:
.
1. Your name
2. Your complaint concerning your experience with Bank of America.
3. Please end your email “I support John Wright vs. BofA Lawsuit!”
4. Please send a copy of your email to piggybankblog@earthlink.net
5. Please send your email to BofA CEO Brian Moynihan:
brian.t.moynihan@bankofamerica.com
.
I HAVE HAD ENOUGH AND I AM FIGHTING BACK!
.
I have created piggybankblog.com for all of those who have been abused by Bank of Destroying Americas potentially irregular, fraudulent and simply abusive home loan modification process.
.
Divided we might have fell America. UNITED WE MUST STAND!
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoOJMr7OJ0s
.
My name is John Wright AND I AM FIGHTING BACK!
.
John Wright
piggybankblog.com
That Democrats get raving mad at Filibusters and the party of no but they hide out of state when the majority disagrees with them? What they aren't responsible to show up? Then the local school committees there show who they represent by rushing into negotiations for new contracts before it takes effect? Who do they represent? The schools?, the taxpayers? Nope - they are most likely all ex teachers and they represent themselves and their union brothers.
If a public worker has a pay and benefits package of say $70k and say pays $20k in taxes where did the other $50k come from?
Here is a story about a Fire Chief retiring at 47 with a $60k pension and a year later becomes chief in a nearby town where he'll work till he gets a second pension. After which he'll retire out of state taking his taxes with him. These are municipal funds run by the state but the state restrictions don't apply because in name only its the towns.
They retire at 50 and start working the sick day system ($250 a day for 5 hours work) and make a good deal plus their retirement but now they want even more? Never mind the 3% yearly cola for RI retirees regardless of the inflation rate. Now they can be $500 a day as consultants, Talk about greed. Like there aren't young kids waiting in the wings for these jobs?
30 states don't even allow collective bargaining for state employees so what's all the tears about? No body cares about them apparently.
The best yet? Government worker unemployment nationwide went from 5% in January to 4.2% in February. Demand must be deafening.
Look at Detroit that's a union stronghold isn't it? 25% loss of population and the public unions are kicking and screaming about layoffs? Its a nuclear winter there. Taxpayers have left the building but those that are left still wait on check day.
Sorry I can't quote any economics studies bought and paid for to show a result. I'm based in a dollars and cents reality.
I'll end with a quote from the Dallas Federal Reserve President but he must be an idiot.
“The U.S. debt situation is at a "tipping point," Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said on Tuesday, and urged the U.S. central bank to refrain from any further stimulus measures.
"If we continue down on the path on which the fiscal authorities put us, we will become insolvent. The question is when," Fisher said in a speech at the University of Frankfurt.
This extensive study is gaining much more attention. Published at the end of 2009, it was dismissed as less than serious. The authors are Eastern European scholars who studied Chernobyl and claim nearly 1.0 million deaths resulted from the accident. It's a hot topic right now, understandably.
Idiots know their prone to earthquakes n wit their technology they should have been ready for this, especially around the nuclear plants cuss now were all SOL.
There is no reason to write "Robert Oak said", we know who said it by the name on a comment. Secondly, we deviated from economics during the BP oil spill so clearly we do not discount other toxins, disasters including mercury and dioxins.
So far Japan is not Chernobyl, as pointed out previously, it's an ongoing event. I don't think anyone claimed it is Chernobyl or worse, compares to an atom bomb or nuclear bomb.
This is a faux paus argument. That said, people trying to dismiss nuclear waste or radiation as "harmless", well, I must wonder if the nuclear industry hiring a bunch of paid commenters and bloggers to spam websites at this point.
Radiation as "harmless" is patently false and trying to deny the half-life of radioactive materials is also absurd. But then we have people wanting to teach creationism so, I guess it all figures.
It would be nice to see some actual data, or even the original article on the Chinese fraud story.
Neither Offshore alert nor Sharesleuth show this assertion.
What Sharesleith does show is a story about a previously convicted con man who recently has been using reverse mergers to publicly list possibly, even likely questionable companies.
I don't see anything in the Sharesleuth article that this pertains to all Chinese companies listing in the US - the story is mostly about S Paul Kelley.
Robert Oak said: "What is the cost of human life and of destroying their land, making it uninhabitable?
That said, the oil spills, what damage does that do for how long? Radioactivity trumps destruction of the environment by time.
So, while you may try to claim "oh the tsunami destroyed the land", that is temporary, radiation is permanent. "
The reality is this that a full containment breach did not occur. Much as with Three Mile Island, there was no glowing ball of radioactive waste burning its way to the center of the earth.
Given this - I'd like to see where your sources of information are in which plutonium and uranium were released into the atmosphere or land around Fukushima.
This isn't a Chernobyl situation - no explosion scattering the inner contents of a fission reactor.
Secondly to say that radiation is permanent but the tsunami only did temporary damage ignores the toxic chemicals and metals spilled in the course of wrecking towns, cities, and their infrastructure in a modern industrial nation.
What is the half life of mercury?
What about the hundreds, thousands, or millions of tons of dioxins?
Sorry, misinformation as well as insults against the site rules. If you don't know what's wrong, it's even worse, seems you are just interested in spamming the site trying to claim nuclear waste, radioactivity is "safe and harmless". That is completely untrue, and obscene misinformation campaign.
You have stated no new information about how dangerous exposure to longer half lives versus shorter half lives. I no were did I state the only radiation of is from iodine. I said "dangerous radiation."
The danger has to with bio-accumulation and the intensity of decay. The more energetic the shorter the half life not the longer.
You haven't addressed the issues of radiation releases from that occur from coal on a daily basis or the release of permanent toxins.
And apparently, you feel wikipedia is better source on radiation the UCSB's Department of Physics. I don't know what to say about that.
Now please tell me exactly what errors are made in the lecture from the video above. Perhaps the information is totally wrong but I haven't seen the evidence against it and I have looked.
The so-called "waste" is mostly because it too expensive to chemically separate and reprocess and because this government made the political decision not to deal with the problem not because there is nothing we can do with the materials.
The simple fact is that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed using fission bombs and exposed to huge levels of radiation and today they are not ghost towns where nothing can live.
You are expect us to react to the words "half life" and "radiation" like its something unnatural rather than dealing concrete numbers about exposure and the intensity of decay and absorption. I don't blame you because it the media's job to report the facts and they haven't cared about that for some time.
Headlines like "Local area around nuclear plant reported to have higher than background radiation" don't sell well as headlines like "Nuclear crisis: Australians stranded in Japan as lethal rain loom"(Actual Headline).
I really like this site and you folks really understand the economic issues well but the whole "post civilization" doom because of unsolvable environmental problems unless we embrace energy austerity is just another form of oligarchical austerity program that isn't helpful much like the left cover given to driving down wages via high levels immigration isn't helpful.
We have technological options but our political system doesn't want to spend any money on improved and safer infrastructure and until we deal with the political class all of these technical issues of how to improve the energy situation will be pointless.
The folks who run the media are enjoying the run ups on coal and natural and only give lip service to things like winds and solar because they know those kinds of technology will do nothing. The problem is the Oligarchy not energy technology. It is the Oligarchy that have made us live with unsafe conditions not the technology.
Currently the only isotopes used as nuclear fuel are uranium-235 (U-235), uranium-238 (U-238) and plutonium-239,
U-235, half-life 700 million years
U-238, half-life 4.468 billion years
Plutonium-239, half life 24,200 years
spent nuclear fuel (the rods they are trying to throw water on)
Long-lived radioactive waste from the back end of the fuel cycle is especially relevant when designing a complete waste management plan for SNF. When looking at long-term radioactive decay, the actinides in the SNF have a significant influence due to their characteristically long half-lives. Depending on what a nuclear reactor is fueled with, the actinide composition in the SNF will be different.
An example of this effect is the use of nuclear fuels with thorium. Th-232 is a fertile material that can undergo a neutron capture reaction and two beta minus decays, resulting in the production of fissile U-233. The SNF of a cycle with thorium will contain U-233, an isotope with a half-life of 160,000 years. Its radioactive decay will strongly influence the long-term activity curve of the SNF around 1,000,000 years. A comparison of the activity associated to U-233 for three different SNF types can be seen in the figure on the top right.
The burnt fuels are Thorium with Reactor-Grade Plutonium (RGPu), Thorium with Weapons-Grade Plutonium (WGPu) and Mixed Oxide fuel (MOX). For RGPu and WGPu, the initial amount of U-233 and its decay around 10E5 years can be seen. This has an effect in the total activity curve of the three fuel types. The absence of U-233 and its daughter products in the MOX fuel results in a lower activity in region 3 of the figure on the bottom right, whereas for RGPu and WGPu the curve is maintained higher due to the presence of U-233 that has not fully decayed.
The use of different fuels in nuclear reactors results in different SNF composition, with varying activity curves.
Now this is Science and I am not amused in any way with someone trying to spin fact.
EP rules are no economic fiction and that expands to no fiction period. We're deviating from the site's main focus, which we do when there is a major crisis happening from time to time, but regardless, trying to just state some belief in some attempt to repress real information and spin to some desired goal is absolutely unacceptable on this site.
The half lives of the dangerous ones are 8 days for iodine 131 meaning more people will be hurt by overdosing with potassium iodine out of fear than will be hurt by the radioactive iodine.
Shall we start taking tolls of the dangers of listening to greens?
The others are Cesium 137 for 30 years, Strontium 90 for 30 years and Plutonium 241 for 9 years.
So this idea of contamination for 50,000 years is nonsense. Maybe a 150 years and you could make a good economic argument but you have to consider the fact that this is a once in every 500 years kind of natural disaster.
A long half life means a lower level of radiation and higher safety. If you do understand this basic fact about radiation then you should stop using these uneducated statements about the "dangers" of 50k half lives. Dangerous Compared to What? A person in Colorado gets higher exposure.
If the half life is short then it means the rate at which neutrons are being giving off is high and therefore most dangerous. The most dangerous radioactive release mention so far is iodine 131 which has a half life of 8 days. I believe Cesium 127 is 9 days. These particles are dangerous because they are similar to bio-active isotopes and thus can gather in the body.
All models of increased cancer rate from low level radiation from radioisotopes of long half life is based on a linear no theshold model which inflates the cancer rate much like the birth death model inflates jobs.
Mercury and other heavy metals coal have no half life but you don't seem to care about the everlasting pollution from that source. The Uranium and Thorium and many other types of radiation is released by coal are rates much greater than any exposure created by the meltdown.
Slag from Coal literally has no dumping standards and sometimes is even used in making fertilizers.
You cited the firedoglake post which cited Arnie Gundersen a antinuke hack known for padding his resume and is hardly unbiased.
If you want me go into the Coal and Natural Gas back front groups that form the backbone of the antinuclear movement and I provide further details.
The fact are that hydroelectric and the oil refinery fire killed more people in Japan than will ever be shown to be killed by the meltdown at Fukushima. Claims will made that million will have developed cancer based on various statistical model created by greens to prove that assumption.
There where lots of mistakes made at Fukushima but they are no where near as deadly as the increased reliance on fossil fuels will prove to be. If you doubt that I suggest you google "Libya and Oil" and then tell me about how temporary "destruction of the land" and how cheap fossils are compared to the that dangerous "permanent radiation."
You've GOT to be kidding me, the deaths from the after effects and radiation on the two atomic bombs in Japan at the end of WWII are wikipedia, but pick a source.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy the immediate effects of the blast killed approximately 70,000 people in Hiroshima.[44] Estimates of total deaths by the end of 1945 from burns, radiation and related disease, the effects of which were aggravated by lack of medical resources, range from 90,000 to 166,000.[1][45] Some estimates state up to 200,000 had died by 1950, due to cancer and other long-term effects.[3][6][46] Another study states that from 1950 to 2000, 46% of leukemia deaths and 11% of solid cancer deaths among bomb survivors were due to radiation from the bombs, the statistical excess being estimated to 94 leukemia and 848 solid cancers.[47] At least eleven known prisoners of war died from the bombing.[48]
Unbelievable someone is trying to deny the effects of an atom bomb.
the facts are being checked. But costs is not the issue, the issue is the time of radioactive decay, which the half-life is something like 50,000 years.
No one is saying go dig out a bomb shelter in the backyard and move in on this site.
What is the cost of human life and of destroying their land, making it uninhabitable?
That said, the oil spills, what damage does that do for how long? Radioactivity trumps destruction of the environment by time.
So, while you may try to claim "oh the tsunami destroyed the land", that is temporary, radiation is permanent.
The Radiation Effects Research Foundation (http://www.rerf.jp/index_e.html) has been studying the impact of radiation on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors for over 6 decades.
This is a sample group of about 100,000 individuals.
Reading their report, the impact of radiation on these survivors has been detectable, but numerically has been determined to be 420 deaths likely caused by the bombings as opposed to normal mortality:
Robert Oak said: "This site tries very hard to be accurate. That said, it's pretty clear, even from the U.S. information, Japan is a real problem."
The problem is, the actual information is 100% at odds with the headlines.
Yes, there is a very serious problem. The radiation on site is high - but far lower than lethal doses. Further away the radiation detected - with 1 exception - was literally single digit microsieverts over background radiation.
And if you think double background radiation is bad - you get many times that does by: flying to an trans-Pacific/trans-Atlantic destination from the US; from a CAT scan; from an X-ray; from eating bananas; from many kitchen top granite counters, etc etc.
Let's also keep in mind what's happening in Fukushima #1 nuclear reactor vs. what's happening in a 300 km radius around it: entire shoreline cities and villages wiped out. The entire region without reliable power, with thousands of dead bodies both found and unfound, with food, fuel, and medicine deliveries being delayed both by infrastructure damage from earthquake+tsunami as well as by radiation fears.
I personally don't have a stake in nuclear power, but there is no power source which is without its risks.
Were Japan to completely go cold turkey away from nuclear generated electricity, they would have to import massive amounts of coal and/or natural gas and/or oil.
Japan's total annual electricity use is about 950 billion kwh - the 30% generated by nuclear equates to 285 billion kwh.
1 to 2 lbs of coal is needed to generated 1 kwh of electricity, ditto 7 cubic meters of natural gas.
So replacing nuclear with coal would require Japan to import 142.5 to 285 million tons of coal per year, or 1,995 billion cubic feet/56.6 bcm of natural gas.
The cost of this would be $18.4 billion to $36.7 billion per year for coal, and $225 billion per year for natural gas (even at today's relatively depressed natural gas prices).
All this excludes the cost of building new electrical generation plants.
Contrast this with Japan's present nuclear fuel expenses: 8000 tons of uranium costing $960 million.
It is almost natural behaviour of people to react negatively on some technological failure that can cause harm to man’s health. We should consider that this is temporary situation. Let’s be realistic because of this accident, nuclear plants will not be stopped or shut down. All we can do is to ask for higher security rules. We are still much depended on nuke energy.
The spin zone has a huge footprint. How's that, two neologisms in one sentence.
The press back around Three Mile Island was a bit tamer than today's media. Too many smart people out there, although the dangers of this have not been examined to any degree of detail. Just a lot of spin.
This data indicates that we're having a populist moment, those periods when the public just gets it. It may or may not last but it's here now. There was a similar period prior to the invasion of Iraq when majorities of both parties opposed any invasion until weapons inspections confirmed that Hussein had WMD. The aftermath of this tragedy will be available for many to see, regardless of press focus.
WHERE IS MY LOAN MODIFICATION BANK OF DESTROYING AMERICA!
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BofA and it’s CEO Brian Moynihan reminds me of that song by John Lennon and George Harrison titled "Piggies" I invite you to listen to this song on youtube and see if it appropriately fits.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovD9rTzs2q4&feature=player_embedded
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Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.
.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
.
In their ties with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.
.
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
.
When I filed my lawsuit against Bank of America, I thought of the many others out there in the same situation. It was then that we decided to educate the public on what these piggy banks are doing, as well as unite us all together as one voice. Please help me turn this David vs. Goliath modification process, into a Goliath vs. Goliath.
.
Please stand with me and Brookstone Law Firm, and send an email to Bank of Abusing America that states that we will no longer tolerate their potentially illegal, fraudulent, irregular and abusive business methods.
.
So please send your email directly to Bank of America and include the following:
.
1. Your name
2. Your complaint concerning your experience with Bank of America.
3. Please end your email “I support John Wright vs. BofA Lawsuit!”
4. Please send a copy of your email to piggybankblog@earthlink.net
5. Please send your email to BofA CEO Brian Moynihan:
brian.t.moynihan@bankofamerica.com
.
I HAVE HAD ENOUGH AND I AM FIGHTING BACK!
.
I have created piggybankblog.com for all of those who have been abused by Bank of Destroying Americas potentially irregular, fraudulent and simply abusive home loan modification process.
.
Divided we might have fell America. UNITED WE MUST STAND!
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoOJMr7OJ0s
.
My name is John Wright AND I AM FIGHTING BACK!
.
John Wright
piggybankblog.com
That Democrats get raving mad at Filibusters and the party of no but they hide out of state when the majority disagrees with them? What they aren't responsible to show up? Then the local school committees there show who they represent by rushing into negotiations for new contracts before it takes effect? Who do they represent? The schools?, the taxpayers? Nope - they are most likely all ex teachers and they represent themselves and their union brothers.
If a public worker has a pay and benefits package of say $70k and say pays $20k in taxes where did the other $50k come from?
Here is a story about a Fire Chief retiring at 47 with a $60k pension and a year later becomes chief in a nearby town where he'll work till he gets a second pension. After which he'll retire out of state taking his taxes with him. These are municipal funds run by the state but the state restrictions don't apply because in name only its the towns.
Pension Scam Continues Unabated
How about hiring retired teachers as consultants at $500 a day? Even the union is against this one because they aren't paying dues!
$500 a Day for Retired Teachers as Consultants
They retire at 50 and start working the sick day system ($250 a day for 5 hours work) and make a good deal plus their retirement but now they want even more? Never mind the 3% yearly cola for RI retirees regardless of the inflation rate. Now they can be $500 a day as consultants, Talk about greed. Like there aren't young kids waiting in the wings for these jobs?
30 states don't even allow collective bargaining for state employees so what's all the tears about? No body cares about them apparently.
The best yet? Government worker unemployment nationwide went from 5% in January to 4.2% in February. Demand must be deafening.
Look at Detroit that's a union stronghold isn't it? 25% loss of population and the public unions are kicking and screaming about layoffs? Its a nuclear winter there. Taxpayers have left the building but those that are left still wait on check day.
Sorry I can't quote any economics studies bought and paid for to show a result. I'm based in a dollars and cents reality.
I'll end with a quote from the Dallas Federal Reserve President but he must be an idiot.
“The U.S. debt situation is at a "tipping point," Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said on Tuesday, and urged the U.S. central bank to refrain from any further stimulus measures.
"If we continue down on the path on which the fiscal authorities put us, we will become insolvent. The question is when," Fisher said in a speech at the University of Frankfurt.
But also saw numerous high radiation readings.
We've seen on this site, massive denial on even the most basic elements of nuclear technology, i.e. that spent fuel rods are not safe...
unreal.
This extensive study is gaining much more attention. Published at the end of 2009, it was dismissed as less than serious. The authors are Eastern European scholars who studied Chernobyl and claim nearly 1.0 million deaths resulted from the accident. It's a hot topic right now, understandably.
On the 18th, I commented on the disappearance of a Reuters story about Japan seeing burying Fukushima I as a last ditch effort. It just vanished. Now it's back, unfortunately, in an inverted form (March 19): "Chernobyl burial" no quick fix for Japan: experts"
German Cancellor Merkel wants to shift away from nuclear power. Berlusconi of Italy (who may be in jail soon) won't be able to introduce it, it seems.
Time for a serious look, absent disinformation, at alternatives like wind and solar.
Idiots know their prone to earthquakes n wit their technology they should have been ready for this, especially around the nuclear plants cuss now were all SOL.
I know I've seen this previously but I cannot find the report which had the data. The US Commission on China or the IMF is where I believe I saw it.
I just went hunting, including on this site, can't find the right report.
There is no reason to write "Robert Oak said", we know who said it by the name on a comment. Secondly, we deviated from economics during the BP oil spill so clearly we do not discount other toxins, disasters including mercury and dioxins.
So far Japan is not Chernobyl, as pointed out previously, it's an ongoing event. I don't think anyone claimed it is Chernobyl or worse, compares to an atom bomb or nuclear bomb.
This is a faux paus argument. That said, people trying to dismiss nuclear waste or radiation as "harmless", well, I must wonder if the nuclear industry hiring a bunch of paid commenters and bloggers to spam websites at this point.
Radiation as "harmless" is patently false and trying to deny the half-life of radioactive materials is also absurd. But then we have people wanting to teach creationism so, I guess it all figures.
It would be nice to see some actual data, or even the original article on the Chinese fraud story.
Neither Offshore alert nor Sharesleuth show this assertion.
What Sharesleith does show is a story about a previously convicted con man who recently has been using reverse mergers to publicly list possibly, even likely questionable companies.
I don't see anything in the Sharesleuth article that this pertains to all Chinese companies listing in the US - the story is mostly about S Paul Kelley.
Robert Oak said: "What is the cost of human life and of destroying their land, making it uninhabitable?
That said, the oil spills, what damage does that do for how long? Radioactivity trumps destruction of the environment by time.
So, while you may try to claim "oh the tsunami destroyed the land", that is temporary, radiation is permanent. "
The reality is this that a full containment breach did not occur. Much as with Three Mile Island, there was no glowing ball of radioactive waste burning its way to the center of the earth.
Given this - I'd like to see where your sources of information are in which plutonium and uranium were released into the atmosphere or land around Fukushima.
This isn't a Chernobyl situation - no explosion scattering the inner contents of a fission reactor.
Secondly to say that radiation is permanent but the tsunami only did temporary damage ignores the toxic chemicals and metals spilled in the course of wrecking towns, cities, and their infrastructure in a modern industrial nation.
What is the half life of mercury?
What about the hundreds, thousands, or millions of tons of dioxins?
Lead?
Sorry, misinformation as well as insults against the site rules. If you don't know what's wrong, it's even worse, seems you are just interested in spamming the site trying to claim nuclear waste, radioactivity is "safe and harmless". That is completely untrue, and obscene misinformation campaign.
You have stated no new information about how dangerous exposure to longer half lives versus shorter half lives. I no were did I state the only radiation of is from iodine. I said "dangerous radiation."
The danger has to with bio-accumulation and the intensity of decay. The more energetic the shorter the half life not the longer.
You haven't addressed the issues of radiation releases from that occur from coal on a daily basis or the release of permanent toxins.
And apparently, you feel wikipedia is better source on radiation the UCSB's Department of Physics. I don't know what to say about that.
The article on radioactive is a simplification and I suggest you watch this 40 minute lecture on nuclear waste http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-mFSoZOkE&feature=player_embedded.
Now please tell me exactly what errors are made in the lecture from the video above. Perhaps the information is totally wrong but I haven't seen the evidence against it and I have looked.
The so-called "waste" is mostly because it too expensive to chemically separate and reprocess and because this government made the political decision not to deal with the problem not because there is nothing we can do with the materials.
The simple fact is that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed using fission bombs and exposed to huge levels of radiation and today they are not ghost towns where nothing can live.
You are expect us to react to the words "half life" and "radiation" like its something unnatural rather than dealing concrete numbers about exposure and the intensity of decay and absorption. I don't blame you because it the media's job to report the facts and they haven't cared about that for some time.
Headlines like "Local area around nuclear plant reported to have higher than background radiation" don't sell well as headlines like "Nuclear crisis: Australians stranded in Japan as lethal rain loom"(Actual Headline).
If you keep it up you are going to end of the Media Wall of Shame (http://jpquake.wikispaces.com/Journalist+Wall+of+Shame) along with claims about "Nuclear Winter" and other such nonsense.
I really like this site and you folks really understand the economic issues well but the whole "post civilization" doom because of unsolvable environmental problems unless we embrace energy austerity is just another form of oligarchical austerity program that isn't helpful much like the left cover given to driving down wages via high levels immigration isn't helpful.
We have technological options but our political system doesn't want to spend any money on improved and safer infrastructure and until we deal with the political class all of these technical issues of how to improve the energy situation will be pointless.
The folks who run the media are enjoying the run ups on coal and natural and only give lip service to things like winds and solar because they know those kinds of technology will do nothing. The problem is the Oligarchy not energy technology. It is the Oligarchy that have made us live with unsafe conditions not the technology.
Septeus, you should know that I have extensive education in Engineering, Science and....drum roll please, Physics.
Now this denial about the basic concept of half life does not fly on EP, I'm sorry.
Wikipedia half life radiation.
This is Phys 101 info. Trying to cherry pick iodine 131 as if that's the main source of radiative material in a nuclear reactor is beyond misleading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste
Currently the only isotopes used as nuclear fuel are uranium-235 (U-235), uranium-238 (U-238) and plutonium-239,
U-235, half-life 700 million years
U-238, half-life 4.468 billion years
Plutonium-239, half life 24,200 years
spent nuclear fuel (the rods they are trying to throw water on)
Now this is Science and I am not amused in any way with someone trying to spin fact.
EP rules are no economic fiction and that expands to no fiction period. We're deviating from the site's main focus, which we do when there is a major crisis happening from time to time, but regardless, trying to just state some belief in some attempt to repress real information and spin to some desired goal is absolutely unacceptable on this site.
I found more information about the radiation releases. see here : http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/bmonreal11/
The half lives of the dangerous ones are 8 days for iodine 131 meaning more people will be hurt by overdosing with potassium iodine out of fear than will be hurt by the radioactive iodine.
Shall we start taking tolls of the dangers of listening to greens?
The others are Cesium 137 for 30 years, Strontium 90 for 30 years and Plutonium 241 for 9 years.
So this idea of contamination for 50,000 years is nonsense. Maybe a 150 years and you could make a good economic argument but you have to consider the fact that this is a once in every 500 years kind of natural disaster.
A long half life means a lower level of radiation and higher safety. If you do understand this basic fact about radiation then you should stop using these uneducated statements about the "dangers" of 50k half lives. Dangerous Compared to What? A person in Colorado gets higher exposure.
If the half life is short then it means the rate at which neutrons are being giving off is high and therefore most dangerous. The most dangerous radioactive release mention so far is iodine 131 which has a half life of 8 days. I believe Cesium 127 is 9 days. These particles are dangerous because they are similar to bio-active isotopes and thus can gather in the body.
All models of increased cancer rate from low level radiation from radioisotopes of long half life is based on a linear no theshold model which inflates the cancer rate much like the birth death model inflates jobs.
Mercury and other heavy metals coal have no half life but you don't seem to care about the everlasting pollution from that source. The Uranium and Thorium and many other types of radiation is released by coal are rates much greater than any exposure created by the meltdown.
Slag from Coal literally has no dumping standards and sometimes is even used in making fertilizers.
You cited the firedoglake post which cited Arnie Gundersen a antinuke hack known for padding his resume and is hardly unbiased.
See this post http://atomicinsights.blogspot.com/2011/02/arnie-gundersen-has-inflated-...
If you want me go into the Coal and Natural Gas back front groups that form the backbone of the antinuclear movement and I provide further details.
The fact are that hydroelectric and the oil refinery fire killed more people in Japan than will ever be shown to be killed by the meltdown at Fukushima. Claims will made that million will have developed cancer based on various statistical model created by greens to prove that assumption.
There where lots of mistakes made at Fukushima but they are no where near as deadly as the increased reliance on fossil fuels will prove to be. If you doubt that I suggest you google "Libya and Oil" and then tell me about how temporary "destruction of the land" and how cheap fossils are compared to the that dangerous "permanent radiation."
You've GOT to be kidding me, the deaths from the after effects and radiation on the two atomic bombs in Japan at the end of WWII are wikipedia, but pick a source.
Unbelievable someone is trying to deny the effects of an atom bomb.
the facts are being checked. But costs is not the issue, the issue is the time of radioactive decay, which the half-life is something like 50,000 years.
No one is saying go dig out a bomb shelter in the backyard and move in on this site.
What is the cost of human life and of destroying their land, making it uninhabitable?
That said, the oil spills, what damage does that do for how long? Radioactivity trumps destruction of the environment by time.
So, while you may try to claim "oh the tsunami destroyed the land", that is temporary, radiation is permanent.
Yes, in fact they do.
The Radiation Effects Research Foundation (http://www.rerf.jp/index_e.html) has been studying the impact of radiation on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors for over 6 decades.
This is a sample group of about 100,000 individuals.
Reading their report, the impact of radiation on these survivors has been detectable, but numerically has been determined to be 420 deaths likely caused by the bombings as opposed to normal mortality:
http://www.rerf.jp/library/scidata/lssrepor_e/rr11-95.htm
Robert Oak said: "This site tries very hard to be accurate. That said, it's pretty clear, even from the U.S. information, Japan is a real problem."
The problem is, the actual information is 100% at odds with the headlines.
Yes, there is a very serious problem. The radiation on site is high - but far lower than lethal doses. Further away the radiation detected - with 1 exception - was literally single digit microsieverts over background radiation.
And if you think double background radiation is bad - you get many times that does by: flying to an trans-Pacific/trans-Atlantic destination from the US; from a CAT scan; from an X-ray; from eating bananas; from many kitchen top granite counters, etc etc.
Let's also keep in mind what's happening in Fukushima #1 nuclear reactor vs. what's happening in a 300 km radius around it: entire shoreline cities and villages wiped out. The entire region without reliable power, with thousands of dead bodies both found and unfound, with food, fuel, and medicine deliveries being delayed both by infrastructure damage from earthquake+tsunami as well as by radiation fears.
I personally don't have a stake in nuclear power, but there is no power source which is without its risks.
Were Japan to completely go cold turkey away from nuclear generated electricity, they would have to import massive amounts of coal and/or natural gas and/or oil.
Japan's total annual electricity use is about 950 billion kwh - the 30% generated by nuclear equates to 285 billion kwh.
1 to 2 lbs of coal is needed to generated 1 kwh of electricity, ditto 7 cubic meters of natural gas.
So replacing nuclear with coal would require Japan to import 142.5 to 285 million tons of coal per year, or 1,995 billion cubic feet/56.6 bcm of natural gas.
The cost of this would be $18.4 billion to $36.7 billion per year for coal, and $225 billion per year for natural gas (even at today's relatively depressed natural gas prices).
All this excludes the cost of building new electrical generation plants.
Contrast this with Japan's present nuclear fuel expenses: 8000 tons of uranium costing $960 million.
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