Fukushima

[Hunt Stoddard]

Does anyone know the latest on radiation levels in Hawaii due to Fukushima? Is there a website that gives monitored radiation levels?

[PaulW]

"The proximity of Hawaii to Japan has many people concerned that Hawaii has been contaminated by radiation from Fukushima"
Proximity? People, look at a map!

[Midnight Rambler]

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Originally posted by pahoated

Fukushima plant #4 is reported to be tilting (like the tower of Pisa) with parts of the reactor bulging through the walls. Failure of this containment will result in a large highly radioactive meltdown. They need to bite the bullet and go for the bandaid to cover the whole complex in concrete like they did for Chernobyl.

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Not sure where you're getting this, but reactor 4 was already defueled, so while there is some danger because the fuel is still hot in a cooling pool, the reactor doesn't have any in it. Also, it doesn't look like it's leaning: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Paci...ster-video

As far as Chernobyl, don't forget that building that cap cost the lives of something like 100 people, because it required going into the high-radiation area. I don't think Japan is willing to go there like the Soviet Union was.

[coppercoin40]

The tsunami debris is beginning to wash onto the shores of Southeast Alaska - my turf

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/06/coa...e-tsunami/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13...94284.html

What's next!? is anywhere really safe in this crazy, crazy world? We will be our own doom. Human beings, what a scourge of the earth we are, like cockroaches.

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Maybe the earth is going to revolt,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon

Pele will rise,
http://www.goddess.com.au/goddesses/Godd...olcano.jpg

Planet X will collide with earth giving birth to great waves of displaced ocean. The bowels of the earth will give great groans as it heaves fault lines,
http://www.prophecyfilm.com/

Few will survive, those who do will wish they hadn't.

;p

[coppercoin40]

just for the fun of it ;D

I'm here for the ride, gonna enjoy it!

[SBH]

And how far is California from Japan PaulW? Look at a map Rush Limbaugh of PunaWeb.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/2...MF20120528

http://punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14134&SearchTerms=Fukushima

Record radiation levels at Fukushima (now):

http://www.japantoday.com/category/natio...ma-reactor

Radiation from Fukushima has been going into the air and sea for almost 16 months now with very little coverage from the mainstream media.

[riverwolf]

Pahoated ...the situation is bad enough, without making claims based on some silly photo of a guy with his head lightly tilted.
Such absurdity causes disbelief in whatever message your trying to share.
The world is scary enough already without sensationalism of propped photos.
enjoy.

riverwolf

[TomK]

Oh jeez,

There's a photo of some people looking worried. Maybe they were told their overtime pay was being withheld or their horse didn't win the Japanese Grand National.

Can I just remind people of something I've said here before. The island is full of scientific types, many work at the summit of Mauna Kea and understand the physics of radiation, it's pretty basic stuff in all the courses they would have done as undergraduates and post-graduates.

When you see those people leaving the island in a hurry *then* you should be worried. In the meantime they are happy to remain living here. None of them are worried about radiation from Japan being a problem here.

Of course you are free to worry about it yourself but showing pictures of some people in suits looking worried is about the most pathetic attempt of scare-mongering I have seen in quite a while. If that's the level of evidence you need then I feel sorry for you, but why not just leave the islands yourself and then tell us what fools we were when we're all dying of radiation poisoning. In the meantime the rest of us will just get on with life.

Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/

[oink]

I'm not saying anything about the radiation issue itself
but I've looked at the picture twice now. It doesn't show
or mean poop. You have to be really trying to read much
meaning into that picture.

Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.

[TomK]

Oink - in a way it reminds me of Captain Fitz-Roy's opinion of Charles Darwin. They didn't have photography back then but he didn't want Darwin aboard his ship because of the shape of his nose. He thought someone with a nose like that couldn't have sufficient energy or determination for the trip. Now it's the modern world. Clearly a picture of some workers looking worried must mean the sky is falling even though it might just be they were told their dinner was going to be late. But obviously it means we're all doomed.

Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/