Fukushima

[Rob Tucker]

So get your own Geiger Counter and let us know when it wakes you at night.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

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Originally posted by Rob Tucker

get your own Geiger Counter and let us know when it wakes you at night.

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That's not really as far fetched as it sounds. When I lived on Maui back during the first Gulf War, I had a friend who formerly worked for the NRC. As a hobby, he had a radiation detector outside connected to his computer, tracking radiation levels. One day when I visited him, he started scrolling through several months of bar graphs. All of the readings were within a similar range, and then, all of a sudden, went through the roof. I asked "what happened there?" He showed me the date, and it was shortly after the Gulf War started. I asked him if he knew what caused it, but at the time he had no idea. Later, when it was discovered that our army used depleted uranium tipped shells to penetrate Iraqi tank armor, it was determined that the depleted uranium vaporized on impact with the tanks, and went into the atmosphere. Some days/weeks later that passed over Hawaii.

Although those recorded levels were high, I don't believe they were unsafe, as my friend didn't pack up his equipment and retreat to a secret underground bunker.
And it also wasn't dangerous, as I'm still here to tell you about it.
But it might have been one of those things that go click in the night - - if a Geiger Counter was nearby.

[Obie]

So are all you folks going to just abandon your homes and move to ??????.
If you sell,the pono thing to do would be to disclose through your real estate agent that a huge plume of radioactivity is headed to Hawaii and you should sell your homes for pennies on the dollar !

[PaulW]

"army used depleted uranium tipped shells to penetrate Iraqi tank armor"

Wow, what a great story! Only thing is, depleted uranium isn't radioactive.

[PaulW]

Bullwinkle, we've come a long way since the 50s.

If "all radiation is dangerous" then I have bad news for you. Everything (apart from hydrogen ions) is to some extent radioactive, including your own body. Time to jump out that window.

Barring the appearance of Godzilla off the Kona Coast in February 2014, we're very safe here in Hawaii.

Signing off on this subject now, feel free to live in irrational fear if that's your thing. All the more sushi for me!

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

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Originally posted by PaulW

Wow, what a great story! Only thing is, depleted uranium isn't radioactive.

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According to the defense department, depleted uranium has 60% the radioactivity as natural uranium:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium

[Bullwinkle]

Seems the new Fukashima management / regulators shares our concern - and lack of data


in short no one knows how this will turn out - so far it isnt going well


http://abcnews.go.com/International/wire...a-20103169

no need for personal attacks - this is about fact - not knee jerk denial - have a good day

[PaulW]

And how radioactive is natural uranium? Answer: not very much.

[PaulW]

What personal attacks? You're the one accusing me of watching Fox news!

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

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Originally posted by PaulW

And how radioactive is natural uranium? Answer: not very much.

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It's radioactive enough, especially when vaporized and breathed in:

Uranium miners have a higher incidence of cancer. An excess risk of lung cancer among Navajo uranium miners, for example, has been documented and linked to their occupation.[39] The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, a 1990 law in the USA, required $100,000 in "compassion payments" to uranium miners diagnosed with cancer or other respiratory ailments.[40]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium