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Apr 5, 2011 8:45 pm Detail View
Anony Mouse said: > If the radiation is now hitting California shores, I just don`t understand how the Japanese government can continue to not acknowledge what`s going on

Then maybe you should learn a little about radioactive contamination. And radiation. Since apparently, you don't know anything about either.

> They are now saying that this amount of radiation definitely can kill, correct?

Well, if you go swimming in the water in the basements of the reactor buildings, yes. If you spend lots of time on the grounds of the reactors without protective measures, yes. If you're in one of a few hotspots around the plant... well... maybe. Eventually. Possibly. If you spend a lot of time outside, and they don't clean up the contaminated soil. If you're in most of Japan? *** no, not even remotely.

The Japanese government and TEPCO aren't the only ones monitoring the radiation - and the independent measurements agree with the numbers they've released, so it doesn't sound like they're covering things up.

And I think he has plenty of reasons to cry even if the radiation doesn't result in a single death. In the long run, it's pretty likely at least a handful of people will die as a result of it, although it's pretty likely we'll never be able to attribute any one death specifically to it, but even if no one ever did die, he has plenty of reasons to cry.

Quite likely, the most dangerous thing here is that an opinion as ignorant as yours is being shared online where it could influence other ignorant people. And given that I am expecting some deaths in the long-term as a result of the radiation leaks, that should tell you something.

Apr 6, 5:43 pm
User700 replied to Anony Mouse : You are 100% correct; on the other hand, who knows the truth!