The Amount of Radiation in Japan is NOT Safe

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ElecEquity

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/0...om-the-japanese-nuclear-reactors-is-not-safe/

It is not very confidence-inspiring that:
EPA officials, however, refused to answer questions or make staff members available to explain the exact location and number of monitors, or the levels of radiation, if any, being recorded at existing monitors in California.
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Or that the EPA has pulled 8 of its 18 radiation monitors in California, Oregon and Washington because (by implication) they are giving readings which seem too high.

New Scientist reports that the radioactive fallout from Japan is approaching Chernobyl levels:
Japan’s damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima has been emitting radioactive iodine and caesium at levels approaching those seen in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Austrian researchers have used a worldwide network of radiation detectors – designed to spot clandestine nuclear bomb tests – to show that iodine-131 is being released at daily levels 73 per cent of those seen after the 1986 disaster. The daily amount of caesium-137 released from Fukushima Daiichi is around 60 per cent of the amount released from Chernobyl.
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Tyler Durden points out that – when you consider the fact that the amount of Caesium-137 released at Fukushima in the first 3-4 days of the crisis amounted to 50% that released by Chernobyl over 10 days – the real run rate of the radiation released at Fukushima is now about 120-150% the figure released by the Chernobyl explosion.

There are other signs of high levels radiation. See this and this. And it is important to remember that the amount of radioactive fuel at Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl.
 
This is all very alarming but sadly not surprising. Because so much was kept from the public initially, it's become true that any covering up is now the norm in this situation. I just wish I knew where to get more definite/verifiable information about this topic and event.

Post reliable sources if you got them.
 
Quote from JackGreen:

Thank you for posting this video, I haven't seen it for years and have been trying to locate it for a while...my brother used to show me it when I was younger, and I'm still in awe of the strength of this thing. Unbelievable.
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It's amazing. Mankind is a scary bunch. From what I've heard, Castle Bravo is STILL at present responsible for a large percentage of the current radiation in the world. Idk if that's true, but if it is, that's pretty amazing.
 
They always say the amounts are minimal but when you may be exposed chronically by way of food, water and the air you breathe its scary.
 
The Amount of Radioactive Fuel at Fukushima DWARFS Chernobyl
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/amount-of-radioactive-fuel-at-fukushima.html

As the New York Times notes, radioactive cesium is the main danger from the Japanese nuclear accident:
Over the long term, the big threat to human health is cesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years.
At that rate of disintegration, John Emsley wrote in “Nature’s Building Blocks” (Oxford, 2001), “it takes over 200 years to reduce it to 1 percent of its former level.”
It is cesium-137 that still contaminates much of the land in Ukraine around the Chernobyl reactor.
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See another great post by Ritholtz here: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/03/cesium-fallout-from-fukushima-already-rivals-chernobyl/
 
Quote from ElecEquity:

It's amazing. Mankind is a scary bunch. From what I've heard, Castle Bravo is STILL at present responsible for a large percentage of the current radiation in the world. Idk if that's true, but if it is, that's pretty amazing.
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No it is not. Most exposure to radiation is from natural sources eg minerals in the ground, radon in the air, potassium 40 in the food we eat etc. Nearly all the remaining exposure is from medical procedures.

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http://depletedcranium.com/on-lnt-and-nuclear-energy/#more-4597
 
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