Fukushima Contaminated Entire Pacific Ocean

[geochem]

Sorry HOTPE, maybe I wasn't clear - which governments covered up the nuclear impacts of Fukushima?

Thank you Lodestone for making my point better than I did.

Although I would add:
"Banana Equivalent Dose (BED) is an informal expression of ionizing radiation exposure, intended as a general educational example to indicate the potential dose due to naturally occurring radioactive isotopes by eating one average-sized banana. One BED is often taken as 0.1 µSv... For example, the radiation exposure from consuming a banana is approximately 1% of the average daily exposure to radiation, which is 100 banana equivalent doses (BED). The maximum permitted radiation leakage for a nuclear power plant is equivalent to 2,500 BED (250 #956;Sv) per year, while a chest CT scan delivers 70,000 BED (7 mSv)."

Thanks to Wikipedia...

[Guest]

Well There is another Pacific Polluter to be concerned with and plenty of it is washing up on to our beaches.

http://ensia.com/features/what-will-it-t...the-ocean/

Maybe this Pacific Plastic problem is also just a farce and can be diluted like the radiation from Fukushima.

[Lodestone]

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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge

which government?

Our government for one:

When it comes to the Government and nuclear testing,
history shows the problem has not just been a fallout of
radiation, but a holdout of facts. Information has come to
light that officials of the U.S. Government were aware that
fallout from nuclear blasts would contaminate areas that were
hundreds, even thousands, of miles away.

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No argument from me... when I first started working at a DOE lab in 1988 (after a decade in commercial nuclear power plants), their attitude toward radiation safety was APPALLING. I think the Cold War had warped their attitude... when failure of your primary mission (deter a nuclear strike by the Soviet Union) would result in the death of virtually every American man, woman, child, puppy...well, a lil' ol' radiation here and there doesn't seem like such a big deal, now does it? Around 1991 a enough "incidents" had occurred (Rocky Flats was the last straw, but SL-1 will always be my favorite)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1
...that Congress finally tore into them (no small coincidence that they Soviet Union fell around then) and they became positively OBSESSED with radiation safety... confusing times for all involved. Now they are so safety-conscious that they can barely function, but that's not my problem anymore. []