New York Times:
A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.
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The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Gregory B. Jaczko, said Monday that the plume posed no danger to the United States. “You just aren’t going to have any radiological material that, by the time it traveled those large distances, could present any risk to the American public,” he said in a White House briefing.
Mr. Jaczko was asked if the meltdown of a core of one of the reactors would increase the chance of harmful radiation reaching Hawaii or the West Coast.
“I don’t want to speculate on various scenarios,” he replied. “But based on the design and the distances involved, it is very unlikely that there would be any harmful impacts.”
Read the book On the Beach.
ReplyDeleteRemember the atomic bomb testing? No fallout spread there and no danger said the government.
Time to shut down Diablo Canyon and San Onofre in California before we get nailed by the "big one". Nuclear power is too dangerous of a power source - it is not worth the risk.
ReplyDeleteWill the Kook be glowing in the dark soon?? Adios thyroid glands!
ReplyDeleteThe end of the Industrial Age - global warming and contamination that lasts centuries are its legacy for future generations.
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