Radioactive Buckyballs.

[mad cowboy]

http://humansarefree.com/2012/06/rad...fukushima.html I read the article seems like bad times for the coast's right now. As the tease says balls of radiation are starting to wash up on the west coast, and scientists are wondering if this will effect the ocean or fish or birds or maybe even humans. I also saw a line in the story about radiation being 4 to 5 times higher than the normal radiation.

[TheTruth]

Isn't this something to worry about? I've been watching whats his face on www.enviroreporter.com and it seems that cancerous radioactive isotopes have reached the east coast via rain fall... so I think if anything could cause a doomsday scenario for the northern hemisphere it is this... not to mention the 4th reactor is possibly on the verge of being a hazard if it isnt one already

[lycanox]

Most of the radiation is completely harmless. The health difference between the dose in radiation is likely larger between a cloudy winter day or a sunny summer day. Than the west coast before and after the meltdown.

The only problems would be objects where the radiation is concentrated like those buckyballs. But even those will not cause a mayor disasters. As they would be easy to clean up.

[TheTruth]

How sure are you that these hot radioactive particles in the atmosphere are harmless? and how easy of a clean up is it? If it is being dumped in the ocean and hopping in to the jet stream this seems like its a heap load of trouble because Chernobyl was small incident compared to this and people from that region suffered a high rate of thyroid cancer. and Japan had a ton of spent fuel rods that went to full meltdown and its right off the ocean and jet streams that bring here to the northern american continent and northern europe.

It seems to me that only time will tell the truth when mass amounts of people just begin to have thyroid problems or leukemia (bone cancer) but then it will be too late...

[lycanox]

Chernobyl was a much larger incident than Fukushima. As in Chernobyl, massive amounts of radioactive materials were propelled high in the atmosphere when the reactor itself blew up.
While in Fukushima. The radioactive materials only sizzled out of cracks and got carried away by the wind.
Most of it didn't even end up in the air but in the water. As unlike Chernobyl, the reactors were hosed down constantly with massive amounts of water.
Meaning that most of the radiation either wound up in the ocean. Or settled down in the area directly next to the reactor.

And lets not forget that we are talking about a huge distance for the radiation to cover. Thats a lot of air and water to dilute in.

I would guess that Japan must be one massive death zone by now. For the radiation to be severe enough to become an problem across the ocean.

[mad cowboy]

Chernobyl was a much larger incident than Fukushima.

I'm not so sure about that, one big thing is location, Chernoble was in a much less populated area, while the radioactive cloud reached neighboring countries ,while Fukishima is in a highly populated area, And as alluded to above there is high probability the worst is yet to come. If or when the spent reactor rods burn it will be the APPROXIMATE end of Japan,

I've heard from a lot of sources that radiation levels on the west coast are 4 to 5 times higher than normal so were going to get extra radiated for a few years. Then theres the patch, the Pacific garbage patch , I'd say this is where most of the radioactive trash will end up, floating in a Texas sized glob of plastic, good luck cleaning that up ever.