Busby: 400,000 to develop cancer in 200 km radius of Fukushima

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Run time: 05:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0H-mtsdsgg   Posted on YouTube: April 13, 2011 By YouTube Member: RussiaToday Views on YouTube: 302   Posted on DU: April 14, 2011 By DU Member: Poll_Blind Views on DU: 890

 
From Russia Today, today.

PB

[flamingdem]

1. So the robots don't work when they are around too much radiation

.. what a mess, hanging by the fingernails is right.

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2. I'll admit, when the crisis first hit someone on DU said that there was no way they....

...could use robots to help out- and I didn't believe them. But since a few days after that I've been hearing quite a bit about exactly how screwed we are. Only organics can work properly in a situation that caustic, and it kills them as they do.

PB

[flamingdem]

3. I really wonder how much they are getting done with high readings

and fuel rods strewn around.

The worst part of what Busby says is that the dishonesty lead people to decisions that could lead to more cancer, imagine the anger with a society like Japan, they won't be shut up as they were in Russia

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4. I've been holding my tongue on a particular point since this whole thing happened but I'll...

...just touch on it. Because that's where we're at, at least as far as getting to the point of predicting dramatically-increased cancer rates.

Think about how outraged people can be as a result of being victimized by politicians. Those desperate people can act out. Sometimes in terrible, terrible ways. Obviously, this is the exception and not the rule, thankfully.

However, imagine you have hundreds of thousands of people put into situations where they have been victimized by politicians who are trying to cover for corporations, in this case TEPCO. Now, imagine that some of those people may be desperate, extremely vengeful and diagnosed with a terminal disease which will almost certainly kill them.

I am very concerned about people with absolutely nothing left to lose acting out violently, most-especially against politicians or corporate executives who they feel are directly responsible for their death, or the death of their children or others.

PB

[flamingdem]

5. They are lucky the Japanese are forgiving

and they don't like to protest that much though anti-nuke protests there are getting larger.. but I can see repercussions for decades from this. It might really change their society.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. sadly the only way to fix it is some Kamikaze's to do the work of shutting down these reactors

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7. Unfortunately with these type of reactors, the chain reaction is very hard to stop

once the meltdown gets underway.

That is where the term "China Syndrome" comes from, the 3-mile island incident involved a similar reactor. And the fear was that once it got to meltdown, there was nothing to stop it from going down all the way to China (obviously an exaggeration given the earth is mostly molten rock after a few miles of mantle, but it sort of illustrates the dangers involved).

Which is why those minimizing nuclear accidents, usually do so from a position of ignorance (which in this case is both blissful and emboldening). Esp. those diminishing the incident as being less dangerous than Chernobyl, who do not understand that Chernobyl only involved 1 out of its 4 reactors, where in Fukushima almost every reactor is compromised in one form or another and require active water cooling, not graphite like the Russian design. Hopefully things get resolved, but the potential of being probably the worst civilian nuclear incident will still be there until the situation is brought under control, and right now it isn't controlled...