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In reply to the discussion: Michio Kaku on Pacifica Radio 5/11 - status of #4 reactor - dire situation at Fukushima [View all]flamingdem
(39,303 posts)48. Reducing exposure is tricky
but some practical things can be done like not walking in the rain since rainout is a problem, not taking shoes inside the house, taking extra care of health, the hot particles are another story. The other things seem experimental, it would help to have accurate tracking so we'd know how much to be concerned but that was discontinued.
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Michio Kaku on Pacifica Radio 5/11 - status of #4 reactor - dire situation at Fukushima [View all]
flamingdem
May 2012
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Plume-gate: Secret documents prove global cover-up of continued Fukushima radiation pollution Lea
flamingdem
May 2012
#1
Sorta like this administration covered up the extent of, and damage from, the BP oil spill...?
villager
May 2012
#5
Fukushima meltdown ignored by GE-NBC, et al. That tells me things are beyond control, and we're
leveymg
May 2012
#2
Funny you mention GE. General Electric designed the Mark I reactors used at Fukushima.
Selatius
May 2012
#6
Senator Wyden and Robert Alvarez, former senior advisor under Clinton with dire warnings about SFP #
flamingdem
May 2012
#4
Any radioactive stuff from Japan heads straight towards the West coast of the United States.
xtraxritical
May 2012
#16
Ohhhhh, can't wait until Captain Atom and the NewQueLur Defenders chime in on this thread. nt
DCKit
May 2012
#9
Are there really any of them left? They're so far down on my Ignore List I forgot their names now.
freshwest
May 2012
#10
That's not unlikely in Japan, and if it's less the building lacks structural integrity
flamingdem
May 2012
#53
One, Fukushima is certainly a slow motion nightmare and a massive enviro-clusterfuck.
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#32
I remember A. Gunderson saying similar stuff about spontaneous fission 6 months ago.
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#36