Unless I’m misreading something it seems the Fukushima 0-18 age group must have not gotten iodine tablets early enough or at all? Compared with Chernobyl?

These disasters developed differently, but why the disparity?

If that is a cause, I would imagine the cause might be the wide-scale disaster of the Tsunami. Just a guess.

“We sure are a “brilliant” species aren’t we?”

Human’s innate ability to adapt using reason, logic and the scientific method can be brilliant. Unfortunately some have yet to figure out that a nuclear reaction called the sun provides all the power this planet needs.

A biosphere which protects life from deadly radiation of the sun, does not need a nuke reactor within the biosphere, to produce electricity, at such risk to life and the environment. “Irresponsible” comes to mind.

Like Big Tobacco who deliberately deceived America as to the damage their products inflicted on nicotine addicted Americans,for gross profit, Big Nuke Energy is no different, as to the deleterious consequences of a failed reactor or tobacco addiction; cancer then death. Corporations lie.

Japanese voters look likely to hand victory to a party that favors nuclear power in the first election since the March 2011 Fukushima radiation disaster – a result a baffled Greenpeace activist likens to one of the “wonders of the world”.

Sounds like they must have some “Tea Party,” like folks in Japan who are conned by corporate into voting against their self interest? Played as Americans are played by liars whose lust for the buck and positions don’t measure up to reality or the facts?

Good morning all,

But the day will come when nuclear energy will be too cheap to meter./s

Welcome to death race 2012 !

Good morning, pups. Today we have Dowd and Friedman. MoDo has extruded something called “Makeup Turned Breakup” in which she babbles about a Capitol Hill mystery: Was the diplomat not diplomatic enough? Or did the Republican senators already have their minds made up and agendas set? Well I never — Republicans with set agendas and closed minds? Who could have imagined that? The Moustache of Wisdom, in “My Secretary of State,” says he has a case for making Arne Duncan the secretary of state in President Obama’s second term. He says it actually makes sense when you think about it.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got banana pancakes for breakfast. I’ve got to get the ‘puter started on transferring files to flash drives, so I’m going to get more tea and let the machine get to work. Have a great day.

But “clean nuclear power” harnesses the awesome power of the word “clean”…

And that’s only what’s being reported. I think the impact it larger and measurable across most of Northern Japan.

And thyroid problems show up comparatively quickly. Bone problems from strontium, lung cancers from inhaled radioactives, and whatever it is that Uranium is doing in the war zones in Iraq all take longer to show up.

I’m betting full bloodwork would show anemia right now.

Boxturtle (Did I mention Leukemia?)

I thought i remembered Iodine being distributed. But in searching, I found this link.

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/7389/was-stable-iodine-distributed-post-fukushima-by-the-japanese-government

The first comment is informative:

But as a matter of fact no residents took stable iodine based on this instruction because the evacuation had already been completed at the time the instruction was issued.

The other difference is that Chernobyl contents were scattered when the Incursion happened.

Boxturtle (incursion. What an innocuous word for uncontrolled fission)

The Japanese aren’t single issue voters and their crashing economy is their #1 issue. The current party has done nothing effective in the voters minds. If the anti-nuke folks win, it’ll scare the pro-nuke folks to death since that would translate to no nukes being more important than the entire rest of the economy.

Would you have voted for Mitt if he kept all his positions, except he promised to shut down all US nukes?

Boxturtle (If it helps to answer the above question, assume you’re white. :-) )

Illusions created, tantamount to bold faced lies? Like them Marlboro Men pitching for PM, all dead from lung cancer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlboro_Man

Three men who appeared in Marlboro advertisements—Wayne McLaren, David McLean and Dick Hammer—died of lung cancer, thus earning Marlboro cigarettes, specifically Marlboro Reds, the nickname “Cowboy killers”.[12] McLaren testified in favor of anti-smoking legislation at the age of 51. During the time of McLaren’s anti-smoking activism, Philip Morris denied that McLaren ever appeared in a Marlboro ad, a position it later amended to maintaining that while he did appear in ads, he was not the Marlboro Man, considering Winfield as the holder of that title. McLaren died before his 52nd birthday in 1992.[13][14]

Corporations lie, misrepresent, fabricate to sell a product and profit while consumers pay the cost in the form of death. Corporations are drug addicts, with their addiction being to money and power. Jefferson and Madison where spot on when attempting to regulate corporate criminals in corporate sponsored crime, fearing the evisceration of the Bill of Rights. Guess the two men are correct….

Three men who appeared in Marlboro advertisements—Wayne McLaren, David McLean and Dick Hammer—died of lung cancer, thus earning Marlboro cigarettes, specifically Marlboro Reds, the nickname “Cowboy killers”.[12] McLaren testified in favor of anti-smoking legislation at the age of 51. During the time of McLaren’s anti-smoking activism, Philip Morris denied that McLaren ever appeared in a Marlboro ad, a position it later amended to maintaining that while he did appear in ads, he was not the Marlboro Man, considering Winfield as the holder of that title. McLaren died before his 52nd birthday in 1992.[13][14]

Facts do not lie.

“The Japanese aren’t single issue voters and their crashing economy is their #1 issue.”

No single issue voter here and our crashing economy was not the number one concern for American voters. The issue really is Jefferson’s concern. Corporate aristocrats gutting a republic, crashing an economy and profiting from it.

Futures traders and speculation $147.50 Oil?
MBS/CDOS Rated Triple “AAA?” Sold to the world. Then they bet the short, AIG, knowing full well the high cost of energy would result in the corporate extinction of millions of jobs, to balance the books? The house of cards imploded, predictably.

America’s post civil war economic collapse 1873, was caused by rabid speculation in transportation, Rail. Economic collapses in the 70′s and 80′s are directly related to fucking oil embargoes and transport costs again. We have learned jack shit from our past, while ignoring our history. I did not vote for either of the corporate sponsored chumps. Same old shit different era and America like Japan can do much better…..

And a key point I just remembered: At Chernobyl, it was a graphite reactor and the graphite burned for days, scattering radioactive smoke on the winds.

But if the SPF in #3 fails, it’ll make those fires look usable in your fish smoker.

I’m kinda surprised that China isn’t raising more hell than they are. Fukushima could destroy their seacoast, even though the prevailing winds are push the opposite direction.

Boxturtle (Perhaps they are, but behind closed doors)

Didn’t China go gung-ho on Nuclear right before the death machines in Japan died ?

Seems I remember them committing to over 100 new nukes to ” modernize”just before the die came up 6 at once.

Yup. Those nukes are still on the board. But they aren’t breaking ground on them (or weren’t last time I read), instead they are building LOTS of coal plants.

They’re importing US coal.

Boxturtle (Slow death by carbon or faster death by radiation. Decisions, decisions)

What to eat,
what to drink and
Who to be merry with ?
So many decisions so little time.

Please note the Chinese investment in solar. I guess their ancient wisdom permits China to understand something that Americans don’t.

Supply side economic garbage is obliterated by the abundance of sun. They will use the energy harvested from solar to desalinate ocean water utilizing RFW. The by product of this process is a heat source 1600 degrees Celsius. So by desalinating sea water, using the sun China will kill two birds with one stone, clean water and clean energy. Meanwhile America will waste $1,101,000,000 driving our cars today.

We are fucking retarded…….

For the third time: Jefferson never said anything of the kind.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/jefferson/banks.asp

I oppose the 1% as much as anyone, but I also oppose posting disinformation, especially the same piece of disinformation again and again.

Wrong…….

This is so heartbreaking. Thanks to Attaturk for keeping an eye on Touhoku.

But on rereading, for future reference, Fukushima is misspelled. Thanks even so!

Japan and the world would have a different view of nuclear power had there been a north-wind during the Fukushima nuclear disaster – Tokyo and Osaka would have been covered with the nuclear fallout.

Possibly adding to the anxiety in Japan, Sony & Panasonic bonds were just given junk ratings:
http://www.majiroxnews.com/2012/11/28/fitch-cuts-sony-panasonic-ratings-to-junk-status/