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  1. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 12 months ago

    Something to carp about? Another “ignore it, and it will go away.”?

  2. Tigger

    Tigger said, 12 months ago

    Last night, NBC news reported Radioactive Blue Tuna are showing up off the shores of California.

  3. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 12 months ago

    Good plan. I understand there has been massive damage off of Japan, and they are a LONG way from being safe over there.
    Radiation is scary stuff.

  4. Radish

    Radish said, 12 months ago

    I like the taste of miso but when I ask for it they ask me if I am sick, its used as medicine.

  5. indieme

    indieme said, 12 months ago

    Tons of fuel rods on the upper floor of the reactor just waiting for another earth quake to come falling down, catch on fire and send up tons of radioactive fallout to spread over the northern hemisphere. Have a nice day.

  6. Eryx

    Eryx said, 12 months ago

    It’s not over yet (by a long shot). Radiation is still leaking. The damage from the tsunami was compounded by poor choices in siting these reactors. This cumulative disaster will likely cripple Japan’s economy for the rest of the century.

    In the same week, Germany announced that they surpassed 20 gigawatts using solar, a world record. We in the U.S. can do better if the oil companies and the right-wing imbeciles that suck from their teats get out of the way.

  7. ahab

    ahab said, 12 months ago

    @Eryx

    The Republicans will place the blame for this on 1. Environmentalists 2. Over regulation 3. Obama

  8. mikefive

    mikefive said, 12 months ago

    @Eryx

    I think the Japanese are much more resilient than that. Look at the speed of their recovery after WW II. In 25 years they went from devastation to world economic power. Fukushima is a disaster but small peanuts compared to WW II.

  9. Radish

    Radish said, 12 months ago

    The Japanese have lost faith in nuclear reactors.

  10. ruff

    ruff said, 12 months ago

    @mikefive

    2 things that helped a great deal: Good government regulations, and personal work ethics.

  11. Eryx

    Eryx said, 12 months ago

    @mikefive

    Oh, really? It is a lot harder to bounce back from having your landscape contaminated by radionuclides that are showing up in the food that you produce and export.

  12. Ms. Ima

    Ms. Ima said, 12 months ago

    Sushi is for people who can’t cook.

  13. MortyForTyrant

    MortyForTyrant said, 12 months ago

    @mikefive

    Google “lost decade”. The Japanese are good people, but not invincible. This triple-whammy they got will really take the spring out of their step for quite some time. And it’s a psychological thing as well: their government lied to them about the meltdown, how are they ever going to trust it again?

  14. MortyForTyrant

    MortyForTyrant said, 12 months ago

    The thing most people don’t understand is “bio accumulation”. It means that the amount of radioactive materials in fish etc. is going to increase year by year. TEPCO dumped more than 900 Terabequerel into the environment, a lot of it C-137 which has a half-life of 60 years. The Pacific is very big, yes, but even so the amount of radioactive material dumped is staggering. Be careful what you eat and get yourself a Geiger-counter like i did…

  15. Eryx

    Eryx said, 12 months ago

    @MortyForTyrant

    Actually, the half-life is 30.2 years. But, 137Cs DOES biomagnify: generally by about a fact of 2-5 per trophic level. The TEPCO release is about 1/800th the release of 137Cs from Chornobyl.

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