OK MuthaFuckers - it has had 6 days to Float over here How HIGH is it going to get

[FreakinDJ]

Pres. Obama - Time to FUCKING Tell us here on the West Coast - Just how Fucking High is the Rads going to get

Every Fucking Jack Ass in Japan and the USA has been down playing the Shit out of this for 6 Fucking Days

Now I want some truth

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Say fuck a few more times. It's really effective and makes you seem serious.

[wtmusic]

The anger is palpable. nt

[FreakinDJ]

9. O - FUCKING - K

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. ROLF!!!!!

[elleng]

15. ...

:thumbsup:

Thanks, Mild-Mannered one!!!

[Lucian]

60. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

Fuck.

[jacquelope]

61. Oh please Obama will you tell us the truth? Oh pretty please? n/t

.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

2. They cannot tell you how bad it will be

because they cannot tell the fucking future. They are NOT telling you how bad it is because they are assholes.

sP

[roguevalley]

18. Radiation honchos: Don't worry, be happy. And nice third head there.

SIGH. I'm in Alaska and we get everything first including Palin. I am so on my face in sadness for Japan.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. The truth drawing on training

chances are that it will be just barely above normal...

Time\distance.

We may get a few areas that wil be "hot"

And milk could be a concern as the radiation will concentrate in it.

But chances are I got more radiation when I got my foot x-rayed when I broke it, by orders of magnitude...

No, not the happy face brigade.

That said... the old motto works, watch what they do, not what they say. EPA moved equipment to the West Coast, mostly monitoring gear. I am keeping my eye open for yellow duckies..

[leftstreet]

8. Radiation can concentrate in milk? n/t

[YellowRubberDuckie]

20. Yes.

That is one of the reasons contamination was so wide spread in the Ukraine. They continued to drink the milk from the Chernobyl area.
Duckie.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Why I got my milk yesterday in nice tetrapack containners

:-)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

31. ??

The cows were radioactive? The container isn't the issue? :shrug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

32. Cow eats pasture

cow process it and goes through mammary glands

It concentrates the radiation in the milk

Radiation will be here.

You really need to read on this. or maybe not... perhaps better not to bother yourself with this.

[jdlh8894]

38. Find me a pasture that is ready for grazing

in the next month or so. GFL !

[nadinbrzezinski]

40. Ah yes, feed for cows cannot be exposed to air

and bunnies run in the meadows and that steam is full of flowers.

Have a good day... rather life... iggy list is great.

[jdlh8894]

44. Why do cattlemen have barns?

To store hay in so they can feed their cattle over the winter.
God! Get some learnin'. 'nough said.eom

[YellowRubberDuckie]

48. That's what I said...

I was confused because the person I replied to sounded like they thought they weren't concerned because they had a good container for their milk?

[nadinbrzezinski]

50. I got milk that will last a year

it is the packaging, so having that reduces exposure to close to zero

Brands Horizon, Hershey's or the grand daddy permalat

[YellowRubberDuckie]

59. OK...now I get it.

[SoCalDem]

26. When I was a kid we had Strontium-90 in milk

Not an "additive" anyone loved:(
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/136/3516/619.abstract
Science 18 May 1962:
Vol. 136 no. 3516 pp. 619-632
DOI: 10.1126/science.136.3516.619
Strontium-90 in Man V
The concentration in the bones of children had been dropping, but recent tests will reverse the trend

1. J. Laurence Kulp and
2. Arthur R. Schulert

+ Author Affiliations

1.
Geochemistry Laboratory, Lamont Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, N.Y.
2.
U.S. Navy Medical Research Unit No. 3, in Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

1) It is now possible to predict the strontium-90 concentration in the world population for specified modes of atmospheric contamination with moderate reliability. For example, the average adult bone level in the eastern United States 5 years after the detonation of a specified quantity of fission products into the lower polar stratosphere can probably be estimated to better than ± 50 percent.

2) The concentration of strontium-90 in fetuses reached a maximum of 1.2 micromicrocuries of strontium-90 per gram of calcium in eastern North America and began to decrease significantly in 1960 and 1961. The ratio of the strontium-90 level in the fetus to the level in the average diet of the adult is about 0.08.

3) The average rate of turnover of strontium and calcium in the adult skeleton appears to be about 2.5 percent per year, although there is considerable difference among the various bones of the body.

4) The standard deviation for strontium-90 concentration in a population of urban adults appears to be about 40 percent of the mean. The distribution curve for an interval of from 60 to 0.1 percent of the population may be approximated by the log-normal function. In urban populations of Western culture the concentration for 5 percent of the population will exceed twice the mean, that for 0.1 percent will exceed four times the mean.

5) Cities in the Southern Hemisphere showed levels in bone about half those for cities of Western culture in the Northern Hemisphere in 1960, yet the fallout in the Southern Hemisphere is only one-fourth that in the Northern Hemisphere. This is attributed to differences in diet, with a higher milk component in the Northern Hemisphere.

6) A simple model for the strontium-90 concentration in the bones of young people as a function of their age appears to fit the experimental data.

7) The coefficients of the equation describing the relative contributions of the rate of fallout (direct absorption) and the cumulative deposit (soil up-take) to the strontium-90 concentration in milk have been calculated from the observed data for 1959 and 1960. They are as follows: rate factor A = 0.65 micromicrocurie of strontium-90 per gram of calcium in milk per millicurie of strontium-90 per square mile during the growing season; cumulative-deposit factor B = 0.12 micromicrocurie of strontium-90 per gram of calcium in milk per millicurie of strontium-90 per square mile at the midpoint of the growing season. The predicted levels in milk for 1958 obtained with these coefficients are in excellent agreement with the observed levels. In 1958 and 1959 about half the strontium-90 in milk was attributable to the rate factor, whereas in 1960 the contribution of the rate factor dropped to about 15 percent.

8) Future levels of strontium-90 in man are given (i) for the next decade as a result of the nuclear tests through 1961 and (ii) under the assumption that 1.0 megacurie of strontium-90 is added to the stratosphere of the Northern Hemisphere each year.

9) The radiation doses to the skeleton to be expected from world-wide fallout on the basis of a 3000-megaton (fission yield) war are also given.

[abelenkpe]

4. I personally don't care how ofter you say

fuck. I'd like to know as well along with everyone else on the west coast.

[RandomThoughts]

5. Battle of the Six Cities.

soldier music vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mDeBgQXeo


I am due beer and travel money, and many experiences.

[Chris_Texas]

Downplaying?

In any case, if the question was: how bad will the radiation be in america, the answer is...

It wont.

And in case you missed the actual news in the middle of the the nightmare speculation and what-ifs, the radiation is not even that bad in Japan.

[gateley]

12. I think you'll be proven wrong, Chris_Texas. What news have you been listening

to, anyway?

[Tansy_Gold]

6. Get your priorities straight, man.

It's bracketology time!


:sarcasm:



TG

[gateley]

7. We don't know - they haven't been consistent in their reporting - the head of the

IAEA is going over tomorrow to find out what's really going on, then you might have an answer to your question.

[golddigger]

10. They will just tell us nothing to get all worry about.

The radiation eating-bacteria will take of it.

[nc4bo]

16. A-hem, I think it's radiation eating fungi...

http://www.physorg.com/news99109064.html

But you're right, nothing for any of us to concern ourselves with. All's A OK.

[petronius]

36. That is so incredibly cool. I predict that in the future, we will all live and travel the galaxy in

giant radiation-eating mushroom-spaceships... :)

[tabatha]

11. The only people who are in dire dire straits right now

are the workers at the plants.

Next at risk are the areas around the plants.

I would say of those places, the west coast of the US is by far the best place to be.

[Scurrilous]

13. You can't handle the truth.

:thumbsup:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

17. Well the fact that is he is not a rocket scientist

even the Japanese don't know! How is he supposed to know?

[MineralMan]

19. Well, since none of it has gone high enough to get into the

jet stream, you can FUCKING relax a little. There's not an imminent threat. If one appears, you get warned in plenty of time.

[madinmaryland]

21. The DU Lounge is invading GD? I thought a few tokes might help GD chill out!

:wtf:

[jdlh8894]

27. They have been hitting that "radiated weed"

[madinmaryland]

45. Well, they could have the 100% safe breast milk!

[TexasProgresive]

55. There was strontium 90 in breast milk

from above ground nuclear bomb tests. - If a mammal eats food contaminated with radiation it will get in the milk.

[madinmaryland]

58. Well that's one good reason for not eating at The Olive Garden!

[rug]

62. Ok, now we got breastfeeding in the thread. How does radiation affect circumcised penises?

[RKP5637]

22. Listening to Lawrence O'Donnell's program and the NRC Chief the potential for

more problems sounds pretty bad ... he was saying that water added in come cases could accelerate the problems (#4 reactor). That some of this is uncharted territory.

[drm604]

23. Probably not very high.

But you can bet that there are plenty of organizations and individuals taking readings so there's no way the truth, whatever it turns out to be, will remain hidden.

[TNLib]

24. I don't think anyone knows

We can't even get accurate info on what is exactly happening at the plant. You have potential for 6 reactors to melt down. I don't think that will happen but there is a chance. Chernobyl had one reactor.

Maybe once the US sends that spy plane over they will get a handle on what exactly going on in Units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. But I don't think anyone knows what is happening let alone how to predict the ultimate outcome.

[Kennah]

28. Chill, the Wolf is coming directly

[BeyondGeography]

29. MuthaFuckers?

[yawnmaster]

30. It will be somewhere between fucking 0 rads and one fucking million rads...

Do you really think Pres. Obama can predict how high the Rads will be?

[flamingdem]

33. Painful interview with Japanese Govt. Spokesman, they do not want to answer

the statements made by the NRC guy in congress today, namely, Unit 4 has uncovered rods and ... no way to get to them without instant death.. etc.

[nadinbrzezinski]

34. TEPCO denied it earlier

the NRC guy got that from Satellite and other assets...

[flamingdem]

37. Aha, satellite, that's how they did it high res imaging, check out this site

http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/

Victor Galinsky being interviewed on CNN gets his info here

[nadinbrzezinski]

41. Great place

[flamingdem]

46. Check this out

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv

water dropping .. pretty fruitless looking

[nadinbrzezinski]

47. Watching, blogging on it

[flamingdem]

49. Where do you do that?

Is that on DU

[nadinbrzezinski]

51. Yep

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x666045

[flamingdem]

53. Aha, thought you might have another spot as well nt

[Sabriel]

54. Jesus, that's a cheery report n/t

[Little Star]

43. I heard that too.

[DCKit]

35. When the used rods catch fire, or when the cores catch fire, and it's been confirmed...

Then it's something to worry about.

Thus far, only a few of the spent fuel rods have caught fire. When the whole pile goes up, we're all in deep shit.

[bluestate10]

39. I have been told, from reliable sources.

That anyone that uses fuck more that three times in a paragraph and lives on the west-coast should walk around in a lead suit. I suggest trying a some swimming in deep water while waiting for radiation to arrive, remember to keep the lead suit on.

[jdlh8894]

42. Best chuckle I've had all day! Thanks!

[jp11]

52. Some Truth, Climate Change is real, this message brought to you by the letter 'C'.

[TexasProgresive]

56. Worse case scenario? Try this- A massive meltdown of all 4 cores

the superheated fuel burns through the tectonic plate creating a massive volcano that spits the vaporized fuel into the jet stream where it circles the globe dropping radioactive ash world wide- just saying, I mean it could happen.

But you know what is certain- you will die. maybe today and maybe not but one day you will. Sorry to break the news to you.

[Dj13Francis]

57. That, my friend,

is the $64,000 question isn't it... I think that depends on if they can stop the meltdowns and get the situation under control, or if it all goes to shit even more so than it already is.

Here's hoping they get it under control...

[ecstatic]

63. If you don't believe them, does it really matter

what they have to say? Maybe you should evacuate just to be on the safe side.