Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
Come on, what's the worst that could happen.....?
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
Found it!littlebeast13 wrote:Come on, what's the worst that could happen.....?
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Enough already. It's my fault! Get over it!
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
Rexer25 wrote:Found it!littlebeast13 wrote:Come on, what's the worst that could happen.....?
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I'd like to see the Colorado Border Patrol stop ES now.....
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
Sprots Kong will come to the rescuelittlebeast13 wrote:Rexer25 wrote:Found it!littlebeast13 wrote:Come on, what's the worst that could happen.....?
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I'd like to see the Colorado Border Patrol stop ES now.....
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
Honey I Blew Up Mattiasa1mamacat wrote:Sprots Kong will come to the rescuelittlebeast13 wrote:Rexer25 wrote:
Found it!
LOL, BTW...
I'd like to see the Colorado Border Patrol stop ES now.....
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feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
Some farmer out on the Eastern Plains will have that pelt in his trophy room by nightfall.littlebeast13 wrote:Rexer25 wrote:Found it!littlebeast13 wrote:Come on, what's the worst that could happen.....?
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I'd like to see the Colorado Border Patrol stop ES now.....
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
SportsFan68 wrote:Some farmer out on the Eastern Plains will have that pelt in his trophy room by nightfall.littlebeast13 wrote:Rexer25 wrote:
Found it!
LOL, BTW...
I'd like to see the Colorado Border Patrol stop ES now.....
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ES would use their silo as a toothpick.....
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
How about Destroyah? Or the tag team match of Mothra and King Ghidorah? Trivia tidbit...Godzilla has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.littlebeast13 wrote:Rexer25 wrote:Found it!littlebeast13 wrote:Come on, what's the worst that could happen.....?
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I'd like to see the Colorado Border Patrol stop ES now.....
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/ ... r_disaster
The fact that Japan organised a prompt evacuation, provided iodine pills and kept radioactive material out of the food chain means that experts expect Fukushima to have a negligible public-health effect, at least in terms of radiation (stress, fear and being removed from one’s home are forms of harm less easily measured). Less widely acknowledged is how well safety procedures for the staff in the plant appear to have worked. According to Mr Masui, not a single worker at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant received a radiation dose of more than 250 milliSieverts, the raised limit for emergency responders set by government dispensation. That is five times the maximum annual dose for a nuclear worker, but it is well short of what is seen as a serious health risk.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
An excellent article. Of course. It confirms what I knew would be happening.themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/ ... r_disaster
The fact that Japan organised a prompt evacuation, provided iodine pills and kept radioactive material out of the food chain means that experts expect Fukushima to have a negligible public-health effect, at least in terms of radiation (stress, fear and being removed from one’s home are forms of harm less easily measured). Less widely acknowledged is how well safety procedures for the staff in the plant appear to have worked. According to Mr Masui, not a single worker at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant received a radiation dose of more than 250 milliSieverts, the raised limit for emergency responders set by government dispensation. That is five times the maximum annual dose for a nuclear worker, but it is well short of what is seen as a serious health risk.
In terms critiquing the media, however, I will mitigate my previous point of view ("truth is irrelevant") in one aspect, since it is now clear that the seven levels scale for measuring the severity of accidents has proved to be insensitive to the differences between Fukushima and Chernobyl, and this would seem to have made the job of interpreting and reporting to the public more difficult.
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
Maybe this thread should be entered in the sports madness contest...
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/201 ... 8000c.htmlBased on provisional analysis of data on the reactor, the utility concluded that the water level in the pressure vessel began to drop rapidly immediately after the tsunami, and the top of the fuel began to be exposed above the water around 6 p.m. Around 7:30 p.m., the fuel was fully exposed above the water surface and overheated for more than 10 hours. At about 9 p.m., the temperature in the reactor core rose to 2,800 degrees Celsius, the melting point for fuel. At approximately 7:50 p.m., the upper part of the fuel started melting, and at around 6:50 a.m. on March 12, a meltdown occurred.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
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One German organic farm has killed twice as many people as the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf Oil spill combined.
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Posted by: richfisher at June 10, 2011 1:33 PM
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 06926.html?German Greens and their European Union acolytes have long fought scientific advances in food production and protection. After a spice manufacturer in Stuttgart employed the world's first commercial food irradiation in 1957, West Germany banned the practice in 1959 and has since allowed few exceptions. So it's no small scandal that the latest fatal E. coli outbreak has been linked to an organic German farm that shuns modern farming techniques.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: Fukushima comparisons to Chernobyl are nonsense
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/11/fukush ... -long.htmlSo far, no radiation-linked death or sickness has been reported in either citizens or workers who are shutting down the Fukushima nuclear plants.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.