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Post by louise on Mar 27, 2011 15:28:46 GMT 1
This is brilliant fun (although it's in Japanese, it is subtitled)
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 27, 2011 15:46:39 GMT 1
Why am I not surprised to know this is your idea of "brilliant fun"?
You should never be allowed to foster! Foster parents have to be able to demonstrate a sound sense of humour otherwise they could do irreparable damage to their charges.
You have already damaged the credibility of this board. Go away.
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Post by louise on Mar 27, 2011 15:49:45 GMT 1
You should never be allowed to foster! Foster parents have to be able to demonstrate a sound sense of humour otherwise they could do irreparable damage to their charges. Where on earth have you got the idea that I would wish to be a foster parent?
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 27, 2011 16:39:43 GMT 1
It's a "joke", Louise! Are you American?
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Post by louise on Mar 27, 2011 16:45:00 GMT 1
It's a "joke", Louise! Are you American? I'm sorry I didn't see that but then there are lots of 'jokes' on here that I don't get. I saw this cartoon as a pretty good way to explain nuclear radiation to children who were being scared by news reports. I still don't see why it provoked this response from you or was that a joke too?
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 27, 2011 17:21:44 GMT 1
The Register’s Louis Page has produced some well-researched articles which go a long way to explaining what is really happening: The situation at the quake- and tsunami-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in Japan was brought under control days ago. It remains the case as this is written that there have been no measurable radiological health consequences among workers at the plant or anybody else, and all indications are that this will remain the case. And yet media outlets around the world continue with desperate, increasingly hysterical and unscrupulous attempts to frame the situation as a crisis.
Here’s a roundup of the latest facts, accompanied by highlights of the most egregious misreporting.
First up, three technicians working to restore electrical power in the plant’s No 3 reactor building stood in some water while doing so. Their personal dosimetry equipment later showed that they had sustained radiation doses up to 170 millisievert. Under normal rules when dealing with nuclear powerplant incidents, workers at the site are permitted to sustain up to 250 millisievert before being withdrawn. If necessary, this can be extended to 500 millisievert according to World Health Organisation guidance.
None of this involves significant health hazards: actual radiation sickness is not normally seen until a dose of 1,000 millisievert and is not common until 2,000. Additional cancer risk is tiny: huge numbers of people must be subjected to such doses in order to see any measurable health consequences. In decades to come, future investigators will almost certainly be unable to attribute any cases of cancer to service at Fukushima.
Nonetheless, in the hyper-cautious nuclear industry, any dose over 100 millisievert is likely to cause bosses to pull people out at least temporarily. Furthermore, the three workers had sustained slight burns to their legs as a result of standing in the radioactive water – much as one will burn one’s skin by exposing it to the rays of the sun (a tremendously powerful nuclear furnace). They didn’t even notice these burns until after completing their work. Just to be sure, however, the three were sent for medical checks.
So – basically nothing happened. Three people sustained injuries equivalent to a mild case of sunburn. But this was reported around the globe as front-page news under headlines such as “Japanese Workers Hospitalized for Excessive Radiation Exposure”. Just to reiterate: it was not excessive.
more here www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/25/fukushima_scaremongering_debunk/The entire article is well worth reading But panic sells....... Thanks again to Anthony at WUWT wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/26/the-negligent-promotion-of-nuclear-panic/#more-36640
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Post by louise on Mar 27, 2011 17:54:16 GMT 1
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 27, 2011 18:45:50 GMT 1
Don't quote the BBC and expect to be taken seriously, Louise.
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Post by louise on Mar 27, 2011 18:49:00 GMT 1
Don't quote the BBC and expect to be taken seriously, Louise. Even when the point I'm referring to is supporting your own position? "The operators of a stricken Japanese nuclear plant have apologised for a "mistake" in reporting a radiation spike 10 million times above normal."
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