Comments on: Japan: record high radiation levels found in Fukushima fish, more than a year after nuclear accident

By: zotlerg

zotlerg — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:10:00 +0000

It’s cs-137:
http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:51:00 +0000

As for the cheap “facts” comments below, did you check the sources the article is based on?

You might have offered us primary sources, which are generally preferred.

By: Joe Giambrone

Joe Giambrone — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:22:00 +0000

This is a completely made up BS statistic. Disregard it.

I consider clean renewables the most moral alternative. I don’t argue in favor of clearly immoral behavior, as many technocrats hereaabouts seem to do.

As for the cheap “facts” comments below, did you check the sources the article is based on? Did you follow the citations to their sources?

Didn’t think so.

By: zotlerg

zotlerg — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:48:00 +0000

Would it be difficult to find out? I might do that when I have the time. Still, 16 years, that’s horrible enough.
After a year it should have spread out to sea, or maybe the count was incredibly high back then. Does it stick around?

By: toyg

toyg — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:55:00 +0000

No, the reasonable assumption is that they’re reporting a fraction of the truth — throughout the entire ordeal, they never lied, they just “omitted” some facts here and there. So there’s probably something they don’t say — I suspect it is that the 20km limit is bogus.

By: Marios P.

Marios P. — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:19:00 +0000

sure.
how long?

By: Forced2Register

Forced2Register — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:38:00 +0000

In Italy we banned nuclear energy: 94.5% voted to make it illegal.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:49:00 +0000

Radioactive decay?

By: Marios P.

Marios P. — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:42:00 +0000

what did you think? That radiation will evaporate and disappear?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:32:00 +0000

Sadly, it’s vastly easier to identify “not the facts” than “the facts”.

By: Coal Miki-Restall

Coal Miki-Restall — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:01:00 +0000

But I thought TEPCO weren’t to be trusted for the facts. As it’s them that reported this finding, it seems reasonable to assume it isn’t true, and that everything is perfectly alright.

By: miasm

miasm — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:08:00 +0000

I have to ask, you seem like you might know. Where ARE “the facts”?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:51:00 +0000

I’m not sure that an article written by you on a site called scoop.co is the first place that I would look for “the facts.”

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:40:00 +0000

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By: Pag

Pag — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:24:00 +0000

For every person killed by nuclear, 4000 die due to coal electricity generation http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/the-triumph-of-coal-marketing.html Do you also consider the coal industry a crime against humanity, or do you reserve that judgment to nuclear because it’s scarier?

By: OldBrownSquirrel

OldBrownSquirrel — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:51:00 +0000

That’s true if you assume it’s all Cs-137. If it’s all Cs-134, it will be safe in about 16 years; if it’s all Cs-135, it will be safe in about 18 million years.

Really, we need to know the isotope ratios to make such extrapolations.

By: Nagurski

Nagurski — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:50:00 +0000

Hello Blinky.

By: Joe Giambrone

Joe Giambrone — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:42:00 +0000

So are we allowed to complain yet? I love the arbitrary "20km" distinction. As-if. The nuclear industry is a crime against humanity. Nuclear apologists should be forced to live in Fukushima,with their families. Until they do, perhaps you'd be better off getting the facts about radiation and what it does to children.

By: miasm

miasm — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:33:00 +0000

It’ll be fiiiiiiine. *waves hand

By: zotlerg

zotlerg — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:22:00 +0000

At 258 times the safety limit and a half-life of 30 years, that makes it safe in over 240 years from now?!

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:14:00 +0000

Well fishies, the good news is, no more Nets of Doom swooping down from on high. The bad news is, you have three heads.

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:02:00 +0000

TEPCO is delighted to announce that Japan’s future nuclear efforts can now be sustained entirely by renewable biofuels harvested from the oceans of the world!