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Yes, yes, yes. The Japanese problem is every bit as awful as was the oil spill and warrants hundreds of postings of Youtube videos and reblogging of news articles. Yet none of that will change anything. If all the nuclear power plants were made to simply disappear today the problem with radioactive weapons, nuclear waste, and natural radiation emanating from the earth will continue to be a exist.
What exactly is your point?
Handwringing and fretting and googling for more and more youtubes will accomplish nothing.
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What's your point? You seem to believe that a nuclear meltdown and resulting radioactivity release is no different than a forest fire, mudslide, hurricane, or some other natural disaster. It isn't. It's considerably different. It's far worse with longer lasting damage, including genetic mutations affecting generations. Government health agencies don't test children for the rest of their lives following a tsunami or some other natural disaster.
Let's see if I understand you correctly. You're saying that I shouldn't post videos or links, because you feel that there's nothing that can be done about nuclear power plants or radioactivity and posting or discussing the danger is a waste of time because that will not change anything anyway? Is this what you're saying?
Regarding the "hundreds of postings of Youtube videos and reblogging of news articles:" I don't believe that I've posted "hundreds of Youtube videos and reblogging of news articles," but if that bothers you then I'll stop. Incidentally, you have one self-proclaimed "monitor," "editor," "protector of truth on the internet," who consistently calls for a "link," even when inappropriate, which is most of the time. This is a forum, and not some peer review journal, thesis, or even term paper. Please count the number of video and news article links that I posted on this topic and tell me if one isn't directly on point regarding the danger of nuclear energy.
Finally, if you've resigned yourself that nothing can be done, why do you post on this thread? To tell us to stop posting, because nothing can be done, so why bother?
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Radiation is good for you? Might be, according to some schools of thought. Not as "crazy" as one - at first blush - might assume, either. >Mech
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Not particularly apropos of this thread, but I just had several "nuclear procedures" performed. Sans the information gleaned from them my doctor(s)- and myself - would be reduced to the "peering at chicken guts" level of diagnostic medicine...... >Mech
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[quote=Greger]How about the world's stockpiles of nuclear weapons? Did we need them? .... We're alive, neuman ! Or are you completely ignorant of the Stalinist government's driving forces post WW2 ? Or the driving forces of his immediate heirs ? Yah, I know Canada is a hell of a long way from Cuba. But not so far from the USSR...... >Mech
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Yawaragi no Yu has now made national headlines as it's become known that Nanako Murakami, an 8-year-old girl who has suffered from recurring neuroblastoma (the most common form of childhood brain cancer) nearly her entire life, has been visiting the onsen.
Just the fact that young Nanako is allowed to enjoy Yawaragi no Yu's special "radium rock spa" is noteworthy - although children are welcome at the onsen, the rock spa has always been off limits.
Spa owner (for the past dozen years) Katsuo Kageyama gave special permission for Nanako to visit after meeting with her mother Manami, who reportedly moved his heart by saying, "I'm asking you for my daughter's life." Numan--did you ever relax and enjoy such wonders while visiting Japan? Glowing
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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Ranks right up there with the Davy Crockett ! >Mech
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"Growing" or "decaying" - per well established facts, Joe ?
Its been documented the "contaminated beef" - not a high-level diatary item in Japan, BTW - was fed contaminated rice straw immediately post the Fukishima event.
IMO reports of "high level" cesium in the local sea water is of more concern as "dispersion" should rapidly reduce concentrations of any element in current-rife Japanese waters.
IAC, I suspect we'll discover persistent radition levels will degrade on a time line similar to that of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Japanese "experts were never bashful about reminding American "Experts" they had real world experience in radiological effects. At least according to fellow service reps' oral reports while working those plants. >Mech
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' Numan--did you ever relax and enjoy such wonders while visiting Japan? I did enjoy going to the local denkiburo---"electric bath". An electric current (carefully controlled !) is sent from one side of the pool to the other. One controls the strength by one's distance from the electrified area. Shockingly refreshing ! ![[Linked Image from yurakuin.jp]](http://www.yurakuin.jp/images/denkiburo_bubblebath.gif) ![[Linked Image from yurakuin.jp]](http://www.yurakuin.jp/images/denkiburo_bubblebath_pic.jpg)
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' Its been documented the "contaminated beef" - not a high-level diatary item in Japan, BTW - was fed contaminated rice straw immediately post the Fukishima event. You are way behind the times. Many other meats than seafood are standard fare in modern Japan. [b]Japan slow to close door on nuclear food[/b]Somehow, when much of the world was worried about nuclear fallout from Japan, it never occurred to thousands of farmers and government officials that radioactive particles spewing into eastern Japan since March might end up in the food chain via rice straw left outside to dry.
Either that, or after the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant farmers and officials knowingly ignored public safety concerns to profit from the sale of straw, cows and other perishable food items before they would have to be thrown out, slaughtered or burned.
That straw, eaten by at least 2,900 cows that were possibly consumed by thousands of humans, is causing perhaps the biggest food scare ever in Japan, a country that prides itself on its healthy, homegrown diet....
As Tokyo Electric Power Company poured radioactive water into the ocean in the weeks after explosions at Fukushima nuclear reactors, many Japanese shunned potentially harmful seafood in favor of beef....
Many consumers wonder what, if anything, is safe to eat in Japan.
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