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Uppity Water Nymph from the Land of Funk
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I haven't seen any news articles or reports claiming that deadly radiation is threatening Tokyo.
There are articles mentioning radiation in Tokyo. Just pointing out that there is a lot of media hype going on. The folks in charge in Japan don't fully understand what is/has happened because it's still unfolding so how the media can print things like 'Chernobyl Happening' and the like need to be taken with a grain of salt.
The press has not hyped anything.
There are six nuclear reactors in trouble with damaged rods, explosions, and releases of radiation.
B'loney. The press has sensationalized this tragedy and encouraged people to fear another Chernobyl. As has been oft noted by me and others recently, the Japanese reactors are of a very different design with layers of safeguards which Chernobyl lacked.
The bigger danger to the Japanese from the destruction of these reactors is the lack of power causing millions to live in freezing conditions. 10,000 are dead due to the earthquake and tsunami. The survivors lack food, water, and power. The sewage has either been disrupted or destroyed, which is going to enable a big host of nasty diseases to flourish.
But it's much more important to scare people in CA to pay $500 for 14 Iodine tablets (which won't do anything as the delivery of radiation is often via tainted milk, which won't show up until any radiation works its way through the food chain). And the chance of radiation reaching the U.S. is highly unlikely.