:shrug: it's part of the DOE, DTRA, NRC, NISA, and IAEA briefs that I read twice a day every day. On top of the reporting that I get from Sendai, USFJ, PACOM, JDIA, JGSDF, and all the OSINT.
i have an actual point. specifically i have the correct point. specifically because of the two of us, one of us currently has the job of breaking down precisely this topic every day, and that person (and it is not you) reads the radiation charts, plots the collection points, and compare/contrasts it to the levels of radiation you recieve in a given day.
that's perfect then. a regular chest X-Ray is about 200 u Sv. you are exposed to around 2,000 u Sv every time you take an international flight. most folks pick up 2,400 mSv in a given year (that's 2,400,000 u SV); that's your baseline. to give you an idea of how low even that number is, the current safety threshold for workers at the Fukushima plant is 2,500,000 u Sv / hour. (or 21,900,000,000 u Sv per year). they've pulled out a few guys for radiation treatment, but those guys were measuring around 1,300,000 u Sv to 1,700,000 u Sv; and the act was an abundance of caution measure.
oh. a u Sv is a microsievert, which is a thousandth of a millisievert (mSv), which is a thousandth of a sievert (S) which is the equivalent of a gray(G).....
Ok, so... no source... radiation is suddenly good for you in smaller doses... but you can't show a source, not even one that's over my head so I can see it's not just an empty claim.
Second, as I pointed out REPEATEDLY. The first wave of radiation that's being detected going around the world is ONLY from the FIRST days... where there was the 'small' explosion... where the pressure wave dissipated at, I estimate, 1000-1500 feet (the towers in the frame are 1000 ft)
Since then, there's been SEVERAL mre explosions, and SEVERAL of them have been LARGER then the initial one where people are getting the 'super-low readings'...
Next, You're correct that I'm not an expert, but I get that itch real quick when I can see that someone is not being forthcoming, being manipulative or outright lying, and quite simply, when they are now talking about 'neutron beams' being witnessed coming from the plants, yellow rain, etc... To me, that spells a cover-up.
That said, what's detected in iceland, NOT ONLY is it the first day of radiation released that's getting detected (when the containment was still supposedly at 100%), this is also the same levels of radation that have been dispersed around half the globe already, which implies some dissipation and all.
Furthermore, I've been saying that the levels detected are not near 'panic time'.. I've explicitly said that panic would be worse then the fallout.
Also, have you not noticed that beyond that initial reading, there's NO MORE reported on the radiation?? If there are reports I've yet to see a number... just "oh it's low, it's safe". Well, it'd be nice to have access to the real readings.
look, here, take a look at the numbers yourself:
Rad Pro Calculator: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) you can have a good time plugging in the amounts found anywhere beyond a 50 mile radius from the Fukushima plant and calculating how many centuries it would take you - recieving constant exposure to that amount - to be harmed.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) this might also help.
inches bridge of nose:
from your link:
the concentration was "less than a millionth" of what was found in European countries in the wake of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster that spewed radiation over a large distance... "We thus conclude that there is no reason to worry about radioactivity levels in Iceland, nor anywhere in Europe, resulting from the nuclear accident in Japan," said Sigurdur Emil Palsson, head of emergency preparedness....
look, this is a problem for people in Japan. personally, i think at least a couple of those reactors are probably shot, and will need cementing. but you might as well start wearing tin foil hats "just to be on the safe side" as buy iodine pills in california as a response to this.
Ok, but I still don't see that you're making any distinction between getting that chest x-ray and when that one radioactively charged particle that you inhale giving you an equivalent of 1/20th chest x-ray every __ seconds until your body processes it and you pass it through. And then the bio-accumulation of such radiation going from, a fish eating contaminated fish and bioaccumulating, and then you eating that contamination, then drinking a glass of contaminated water, when there is more cloud dropping down because the leaks are continuing and / or worsening...
But instead we just get the one reading... it's almost like if there's a hurricane coming and you take the wind reading while it's still off the coast and it tells you 'ok, the wind is 40km/h now, oh this hurricane will be safe'... but then neglect to mention anything about the actual HURRICANE.
BTW, there are some estimates that over a million people died from diseases related to chernobyl meltdown in the 25 years after the fact, and as I've said before, a saving grace that might keep that number lower for this event is that the radiation must at least cross one ocean before being an exclusive japanese issue.
Even in Chernobyl, when there was the 'yellow rain' that japan has seen, back then they claimed that it was 'pollen water'... and so kids played in the puddles by the time the truth came out those that were hurt, well, it was too late for them.
I don't get the tinfoil hat reference... and I wish you guys would actually understand nuance.... this is painful... I mean, it's like telling me that I'm stupid for having a spare tire on my car... COME ON!!!