Radiation Risk to the West Coast?

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[quote]Powerpuff wrote:

[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]Tyrant wrote:

[quote]Hyena wrote:
Don’t freak out over this bullshit. Emergency evacuations won’t happen, unless maybe, MAYBE the reactor does meltdown. (which it won’t) My friend is going to school to become a nuclear physicist, he’s 23, and half done with a masters in that crazy shit. He posted yesterday that at the gates to the fukushima plant, the radiation is so mild, that you’d have to stand there for 4.5 hours to get the same effect as one CT scan.

That’s at the gates to the fucking plant. California has nothing to worry about. Any emergency evacuation is gonna get a lot more people killed than radiation will.[/quote]

+100000000

I wish more people would spend 20 minutes reading up how nuclear reactors and radiation before speaking about it after watching the news for a day. Any risk is so minimal it shouldn’t be worth mentioning. I’d personally have zero problem walking to the plants and helping with the cleanup if I was nearby. 25% of people will get cancer regardless of any excess radiation they are exposed to in their life.

OP is retarded, or trolling.[/quote]

I fucking HATE newspapers and media, and how they manage to blow every-fucking-little-thing out of proportion.

No logic involved with the masses, and mass hysteria certainly sells.[/quote]

Once we were evacuated due to brush fires in the Laguna and Newport Coast areas.

When they announced the evacuations on the TV news, people showed up on our street with lawn chairs and set themselves up to watch the fires. We’re on a hill so there was a good view. Not kidding. There were so many people coming out to watch, they were blocking the driveways.

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I certainly hope they brought beer.

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[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:

[quote]USMCpoolee wrote:

[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ But you didn’t even correct his misspellings! Your to nice![/quote]

You’re :)[/quote]

Not only do you suck at picking up on sarcasm, you suck at grammar, TOO.
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Nice! Thanks for noticing!

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[quote]Nards wrote:

[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:

[quote]USMCpoolee wrote:

[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ But you didn’t even correct his misspellings! Your to nice![/quote]

You’re :)[/quote]

Not only do you suck at picking up on sarcasm, you suck at grammar, TOO.
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Nice! Thanks for noticing![/quote]

I noticed! ^^

I just wasn’t rising to the occasion, a wee smile to myself was enough ;p

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[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]Powerpuff wrote:

[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]Tyrant wrote:

[quote]Hyena wrote:
Don’t freak out over this bullshit. Emergency evacuations won’t happen, unless maybe, MAYBE the reactor does meltdown. (which it won’t) My friend is going to school to become a nuclear physicist, he’s 23, and half done with a masters in that crazy shit. He posted yesterday that at the gates to the fukushima plant, the radiation is so mild, that you’d have to stand there for 4.5 hours to get the same effect as one CT scan.

That’s at the gates to the fucking plant. California has nothing to worry about. Any emergency evacuation is gonna get a lot more people killed than radiation will.[/quote]

+100000000

I wish more people would spend 20 minutes reading up how nuclear reactors and radiation before speaking about it after watching the news for a day. Any risk is so minimal it shouldn’t be worth mentioning. I’d personally have zero problem walking to the plants and helping with the cleanup if I was nearby. 25% of people will get cancer regardless of any excess radiation they are exposed to in their life.

OP is retarded, or trolling.[/quote]

I fucking HATE newspapers and media, and how they manage to blow every-fucking-little-thing out of proportion.

No logic involved with the masses, and mass hysteria certainly sells.[/quote]

Once we were evacuated due to brush fires in the Laguna and Newport Coast areas.

When they announced the evacuations on the TV news, people showed up on our street with lawn chairs and set themselves up to watch the fires. We’re on a hill so there was a good view. Not kidding. There were so many people coming out to watch, they were blocking the driveways.

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I certainly hope they brought beer.[/quote]

There was a cooler or two, seriously.

FYI - This email notice just came from the Orange County School District.

The OCDE has posted their link to information regarding the nuclear plume from Japan. You can direct staff and families to www.ocde.ushttp://www.ocde.us and the tab is in the upper right corner.
A short statement is provided:
The California Department of Public Health has communicated the following information:

“We want to emphasize that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have all stated that there is no risk expected to California or its residents as a result of the situation in Japan”.
We will continue to monitor the situation carefully.

Another message found within one of the links is the following. Please note that they “urge Californians to not take potassium iodide” at this time.

SACRAMENTO - Today the interim director of the California Department of Public Health, Dr. Howard Backer, and acting secretary of the California Emergency Management Agency, Mike Dayton, issued the following statement emphasizing Californians’ safety from radiation exposure and the risks of taking potassium iodide as a precautionary measure.

"The safety of all Californians is our highest priority, and we are in constant contact with the federal agencies responsible for monitoring radiation levels across the West Coast.

We want to emphasize that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have all stated that there is no risk expected to California or its residents as a result of the situation in Japan.

We are actively monitoring the situation in Japan and are ready to take all steps necessary to protect Californians should risks develop.

We urge Californians to not take potassium iodide as a precautionary measure. It is not necessary given the current circumstances in Japan, it can present a danger to people with allergies to iodine, shellfish or who have thyroid problems, and taken inappropriately it can have serious side effects including abnormal heart rhythms, nausea, vomiting, electrolyte abnormalities and bleeding.

Our thoughts are with the people of Japan at this tragic time."

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Well, I went outside nekkid for a bit, and my pecker ain’t glowin’.

I iz disappoint.

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[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Well, I went outside nekkid for a bit, and my pecker ain’t growin’.

I iz disappoint. [/quote]

Fixed?

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[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Well, I went outside nekkid for a bit, and my pecker ain’t growin’.

I iz disappoint. [/quote]

Fixed?[/quote]

Improved.

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Watch Max shoot blanks from now on.

Anyone catch the plume? I want to see a fucking plume, COME ON. Get us all worked up and can’t give us a FUCKING PLUME?

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The Japan Nuclear Crisis for dummies.

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[quote]Grneyes wrote:
Just like to point out that the Japanese PM already compared this to WWII, saying something like this is the largest disaster Japan has faced since WWII…and my thought was…they wouldn’t have had a WWII “disaster” (nice evasive way to call two nuclear bombs dropped on them) if they hadn’t attacked Pearl…so they kind of brought that “disaster” on themselves. Comparing an 8.9 earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor problem is not possible and not a very politically savvy thing to say.[/quote]

He said that this was Japan’s biggest crisis since WWII. Not disaster. From what I can tell from his speech, he was talking about the after-effects of the war in general (a large portion of the country reduced to rubble including most of it’s major cities), not just the nukes. All told, it’s true that this is Japan’s biggest crisis since WWII. It’s not really a comparison that he was making. It more like when we say “the biggest thing since sliced bread”. We’re not literally comparing whatever we’re talking about to literal sliced bread.

I hope I’m not coming across as argumentative. Just trying to inform. It’s just that I do speak the language and know the nuances and the way the speech was delivered.

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There is also a “Super Moon” coming, where the moon is closer to the Earth by a substantial amount, coming this weekend.

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[quote]postholedigger wrote:

[quote]Grneyes wrote:
Just like to point out that the Japanese PM already compared this to WWII, saying something like this is the largest disaster Japan has faced since WWII…and my thought was…they wouldn’t have had a WWII “disaster” (nice evasive way to call two nuclear bombs dropped on them) if they hadn’t attacked Pearl…so they kind of brought that “disaster” on themselves. Comparing an 8.9 earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor problem is not possible and not a very politically savvy thing to say.[/quote]

He said that this was Japan’s biggest crisis since WWII. Not disaster. From what I can tell from his speech, he was talking about the after-effects of the war in general (a large portion of the country reduced to rubble including most of it’s major cities), not just the nukes. All told, it’s true that this is Japan’s biggest crisis since WWII. It’s not really a comparison that he was making. It more like when we say “the biggest thing since sliced bread”. We’re not literally comparing whatever we’re talking about to literal sliced bread.

I hope I’m not coming across as argumentative. Just trying to inform. It’s just that I do speak the language and know the nuances and the way the speech was delivered.[/quote]

You’re not being argumentative at all. Many of the Asian languages (Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, etc) depend on nuances and how things are said, not exactly what is being said (this is through observation, not actual experience) so it did come across (to me) as not a very smart thing to say. If he was indeed referring to the aftermath of two nuclear bombs, then I understand what he was trying to say even though I still think it was not a smart thing to do because I can’t wrap my head around comparing an act of war brought on by their own actions and a natural disaster. I don’t think I’m being very clear, but I don’t know how else to say what I want to say.

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[quote]Grneyes wrote:

[quote]postholedigger wrote:

[quote]Grneyes wrote:
Just like to point out that the Japanese PM already compared this to WWII, saying something like this is the largest disaster Japan has faced since WWII…and my thought was…they wouldn’t have had a WWII “disaster” (nice evasive way to call two nuclear bombs dropped on them) if they hadn’t attacked Pearl…so they kind of brought that “disaster” on themselves. Comparing an 8.9 earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor problem is not possible and not a very politically savvy thing to say.[/quote]

He said that this was Japan’s biggest crisis since WWII. Not disaster. From what I can tell from his speech, he was talking about the after-effects of the war in general (a large portion of the country reduced to rubble including most of it’s major cities), not just the nukes. All told, it’s true that this is Japan’s biggest crisis since WWII. It’s not really a comparison that he was making. It more like when we say “the biggest thing since sliced bread”. We’re not literally comparing whatever we’re talking about to literal sliced bread.

I hope I’m not coming across as argumentative. Just trying to inform. It’s just that I do speak the language and know the nuances and the way the speech was delivered.[/quote]

You’re not being argumentative at all. Many of the Asian languages (Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, etc) depend on nuances and how things are said, not exactly what is being said (this is through observation, not actual experience) so it did come across (to me) as not a very smart thing to say. If he was indeed referring to the aftermath of two nuclear bombs, then I understand what he was trying to say even though I still think it was not a smart thing to do because I can’t wrap my head around comparing an act of war brought on by their own actions and a natural disaster. I don’t think I’m being very clear, but I don’t know how else to say what I want to say.[/quote]

He wasn’t comparing war to disaster but rather the aftermath. The situation they were left in after both. The condition of the country. Destruction, homelessness, many people dead, shortage of food and water, nuclear crisis, a good chunk of local governments in disarray, a lot of people having lost every last thing they owned, etc. The situations they face are similar enough that even western news articles I’ve been reading say, “they’ve been here before. But after WWII they rebuilt their country stronger and more prosperous. They did it back then, they can do it again.”

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[quote]postholedigger wrote:
The Japan Nuclear Crisis for dummies.

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Nice