Tuesday, June 7, 2011

PBS Reports that Radiation from Fukushima Now Totaled at 1/6th Fukushima

I still think this is BS and that the levels, particularly when water contamination is included, are far, far higher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8AwpEeCK3k

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june11/japan1_06-07.html

Most of this report is BS

We will see more disclosures followed by more lies, cover-up, and outright propaganda...

In contrast find an interesting interview here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zL3M3kvgI0&feature=uploademail
It is old, April, but the data are still relevant
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1 comment:

  1. desertlabsJune 10, 2011 at 11:33 AM

    This pbs story is extremely misleading.

    1. I believe they chose Acton to interview because as a member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace he presents well in that most people would assume he would not be a nuclear power sympathist.

    2. In fact, while the CEIP promotes nuclear non-proliferation, they are solidly behind nuclear power for civilian applications.

    3. The time frame for the estimates was not explained, neither were the levels given nor their significance explained. "PBS Reports that Radiation from Fukushima Now Totaled at 1/6th Fukushima"

    "Now Totaled" is blatantly untrue.

    Below is a link to a NYT article that is more honest.

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    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/world/asia/07japan.html?scp=18&sq=fukushima&st=cse

    “The agency [Japan’s nuclear regulator, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency] also said it now estimated that the radioactive release from the plant totaled 770,000 terabecquerels in the first week after March 11. The agency had previously estimated 370,000 terabecquerels released in the first month. A terabecquerel is a trillion becquerels, a commonly used measure of the radiation emitted by a radioactive material.

    The agency suggested that the higher emissions estimate was equivalent to only about 10 percent of the radioactive materials released in 1986 by the explosion and fire at Chernobyl, still widely considered the world’s worst nuclear plant disaster, in the former Soviet Union. But the 770,000 terabecquerels figure in fact comes to about 40 percent of the official Soviet estimate of emissions from Chernobyl.

    Most experts say that the true emissions from Chernobyl were 1.5 to 2.5 times as high as the Soviet Union acknowledged. Assuming that true emissions from Chernobyl were twice the official figure, the Fukushima nuclear accident has released 20 percent as much as Chernobyl, according to Japan’s new estimate.”

    4. It was very disingenuous of Acton not to clarify this information.

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