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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima - Unit 4 spent fuel removal >99% complete [View all]FBaggins
(26,747 posts)43. Certainly
Ongoing deadly leak
That's certainly what the usual suspects told us 3+ years ago. Including predictions of a million or more deaths.
You don't think, for instance, the lack of a single radiation-related death in that time is good news?
Unit #4 was supposedly sinking and on the verge of collapse. It isn't good news that that was ridiculously wrong?
That "ongoing leak" (hardly "deadly" is many orders of magnitude below what it once was. That's not "good"?
Need we go on?
That's certainly what the usual suspects told us 3+ years ago. Including predictions of a million or more deaths.
You don't think, for instance, the lack of a single radiation-related death in that time is good news?
Unit #4 was supposedly sinking and on the verge of collapse. It isn't good news that that was ridiculously wrong?
That "ongoing leak" (hardly "deadly" is many orders of magnitude below what it once was. That's not "good"?
Need we go on?
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Yes, the time traveling radiation has wiped out all life in the northern hemisphere
jeff47
Oct 2014
#81
So, your information is outdated or bad, but my reading comprehension is poor?
gratuitous
Oct 2014
#12
How do you explain how the entire pacific coast has been radiated and even dolphins in the Atlantic
zappaman
Oct 2014
#29
Well, my friend. Sometimes the only appropriate response to ideology is ridicule.
longship
Oct 2014
#33
Because it was written before and ENENews just decided to rerun it again for the gullible.
zappaman
Oct 2014
#26