Fukushima fearmongers are stealing our Jetsons future

[miyazaki]

As the situation at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant slowly winds down, the salient facts remain the same as they have been throughout: nobody has suffered or will suffer any radiological health consequences. Economic damage and inconvenience resulting from the quake's effects on nuclear power have been significant, but tiny in comparison to all other human activities – the nuclear power plants in the stricken region have suffered less damage and caused less trouble to local residents than anything else that was there.

Despite this background, the details of which are now largely uncontested, hysteria continues to grip large sections of the news media and the internet.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31/fukushima_panic_breaks_completely_free_of_facts/

[Possumpoint]

1. Whatever You Want To Say

The Gennie has gotten out of the bottle and they'll play hell getting it back in.

[ixion]

2. Yeah, what's a little radiation? Heck, Ann the Man says it's good for you!

:sarcasm:

[closeupready]

3. Right, because the workers who are likely to die of radiation poisoning

are actually NOT sick at all. :crazy:

Why do people post these bald-faced lies here?

Edit to add, unreccing.

[Angry Dragon]

4. Okay

:shrug:


:nuke:



:hide:


:popcorn:

[htuttle]

5. Wall Street stole our Jetsons future a long time ago

[spin]

6. Wait at least six months ...

I'll bet the statement "nobody has suffered or will suffer any radiological health consequences" will be proven false. Note: I'm sure the workers have already suffered health consequences.

[PoliticAverse]

7. It'll be a tourist attraction like Chernoby!!...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/8363569/Chernobyl-The-toxic-tourist-attraction.html

[bananas]

8. Lewis Page is now officially a crackpot. nt

[AndyTiedye]

9. Tell That to the "Fukushima 50"

A couple of them are in hospital with radiation burns to their feet, and they and many others of the "Fukushima 50" have been exposed to levels of radiation that will probably kill them fairly soon.
They all expect to die from the radiation, and they are all resigned to that.

There were also some who went "missing" when the explosions happened. Presumably blown to bits.

They have found Cesium 137 contamination 40km from the plant over twice the level at which the Soviets abandoned land near Chernobyl. That is well outside the evacuation radius.
The people who are still there are at a hugely elevated risk of cancer.
That whole region will have to be evacuated and abandoned.