03-18-2011, 10:32 AM
"I'm less worried about the radiation spread in the air than the fallout in the Pacific ocean. If someone wants to talk me out of that concern, feel free! I know it's a huge ocean, but there is a food chain, and it travels to some extent."
How about this.The leakage from the reactors will be minuscule in comparison to the nuclear testing done in the 40's and 50's.If these tests didn't kill people all across the Pacific then I very much doubt that the leakage from the reactors will harm anyone outside of Japan.
The Bikini Atoll was the location of 23 atmospheric atomic bomb tests from 1946 through 1958.
The Bravo test, in February 1954, was at 15 megatons the most powerful bomb ever detonated by the United States--far bigger than expected. An H-bomb, it vaporized three islands and threw radioactive debris over nearly 50,000 square miles.
How about this.The leakage from the reactors will be minuscule in comparison to the nuclear testing done in the 40's and 50's.If these tests didn't kill people all across the Pacific then I very much doubt that the leakage from the reactors will harm anyone outside of Japan.
The Bikini Atoll was the location of 23 atmospheric atomic bomb tests from 1946 through 1958.
The Bravo test, in February 1954, was at 15 megatons the most powerful bomb ever detonated by the United States--far bigger than expected. An H-bomb, it vaporized three islands and threw radioactive debris over nearly 50,000 square miles.