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Offline cavegal

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Japan radiation unlikely to reach US: officials
« on: March 13, 2011, 04:02:07 PM »
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110313/pl_afp/japanquakenuclearus
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Radiation from nuclear plants damaged in Japan's earthquake is unlikely to reach US territory in harmful amounts, US nuclear officials said Sunday.

"Given the thousands of miles between the two countries, Hawaii, Alaska, the US Territories and the US west coast are not expected to experience any harmful levels of radioactivity," the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said in a statement.

"All the available information indicates weather conditions have taken the small releases from the Fukushima reactors out to sea away from the population," the statement read.

The office also said it sent two boiling-water reactor experts as part of a US Agency for International Development (USAID) emergency team helping respond to the crisis in Japan.
Oh crap US officials have done nothing but lie to us for over 2 years, now they expect me to believe them?


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Re: Japan radiation unlikely to reach US: officials
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2011, 05:57:37 PM »
I dunno.  I think we're pretty safe.  Chernobyl upchucked a whole bunch of radiation into the atmosphere and scientists never said we were in any serious danger from it.

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Re: Japan radiation unlikely to reach US: officials
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2011, 06:49:34 PM »
I dunno.  I think we're pretty safe.  Chernobyl upchucked a whole bunch of radiation into the atmosphere and scientists never said we were in any serious danger from it.

Well, it's been awhile, but I distinctly remember the fallout basically blanketing Scandinavia with some residual over central Europe. As I was in Germany when Chernobyl blew up in 1986, there were some worried folks, especially pregnant women.

AFAIK, I don't have 19 forms of cancer, so I probably dodged a bullet.
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