Japanese Radiation Plume “Not A Threat” To U.S, Oh, Reeeealy?
Published March 18, 2011
All the experts are saying the radiation headed this way is not a threat to the U.S. because it will be so drastically dissipated. One person said it would be spread out, “diluted by so much air”. He made it sound like it would just go away and become inert. In all the news casts that I’ve listened to, not one single expert has said anything about the 1/2 life of those radioactive isotopes.
Half life is the time it takes 1/2 the atoms of a sample to decay and lose its mojo.
The half life of uranium-235 is 713,000,000 years. That’s 713 MILLION years.
The half life of uranium-238 is 4,500,000,000 years. That’s 4.5 BILLION years.
Only six percent of the fuel rods at the plant’s Unit 3 were a mixture of plutonium-239 and uranium-235 when first put into operation. The fuel in other reactors is only uranium, but even there, plutonium is created during the fission process.
When the pellets of uranium dioxide inside the thin fuel rods are split to create energy in the reactor, they release neutrons that, in turn, create highly radioactive plutonium-239. This is the same type of plutonium used to make nuclear weapons.
If plutonium did get out, it wouldn’t disappear quickly. Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 25,000 years, meaning it takes that long to lose half of its radioactive potency. Uranium-235 has a half-life of 700 million years. And cesium, which tends to go airborne much more easily, has a half-life of 30 years. read more…
No matter how you cook it, this shit is going to be around for a while. Whether it be falling into the ocean or carried away on the wind, it WILL get into the food chain.
The Japanese govnerment is telling people that are within 12 miles of the exploding nuclear plants to stay in their houses??? If that were me, I’d get the hell out of Dodge. The radiation doesn’t penetrate any material IS ABSORBED BY THE MATERIAL. read more…
Ok, so I just saw on the 5:00 news tonight that on a scale of 7, Japan has updated the nuclear gravity (seriousness) from a 4 to a 5.
California HAS detected radiation fallout today, but “it’s so diluted”. LMMFAO Yea, but unless those fuel rods are cooled down soon, IT’S GOING TO KEEP COMING, YOU ASSHOLES!
BUT IT’S SOOOO DILUTED!!!!
UPDATE MARCH 19, 2011
BUT IT POSES NO IMMEDIATE HEALTH RISK
“Though radioactive iodine has a short half-life of about 8 days and decays naturally within a matter of weeks, there is a short-term risk to human health if radioactive iodine in food is absorbed into the human body,” the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement.
Earlier Japanese officials said radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex exceeded government safety limits.
The food was taken from farms as far as 65 miles from the stricken plants, suggesting a wide area of nuclear contamination.
The tainted milk was found 20 miles from the plant, a local official said.
The spinach was collected from six farms between 60 miles and 75 miles to the south of the reactors.
Tests on the milk done Wednesday detected small amounts of iodine 131 and cesium 137, the latter being a longer lasting element and can cause more types of cancer.
While the radiation levels exceeded the limits allowed by the government, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano insisted the products “pose no immediate health risk.” Read more here…
Gov. Jerry Brown’s Cell Phone Round Up
Published January 24, 2011The news continues to piss me off. What’s new. I don’t care if you like Jerry Brown or not, but finally, we have someone in office who’s going to kick some ass. Arnold tried to do it, but the girly men wouldn’t let him.
I don’t see anyone else coming up with ideas to stop the gravy train that some state employees having been riding for far too long. Case in point, cell phones. Brown wants to round up a good half of the 96,000 state issued cell phones. These so-called political ANALysts call it a “symbolic” gesture. Check it out…
“In the face of a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, a cell phone may not seem like a big expense,” Brown said in written comments. “But spending $20 million, and perhaps far more than that, on cell phones cannot be justified.
“We’re facing a budget crisis in California and I want to achieve all possible, reasonable savings,” said Brown, who pegs the savings at $36 per month for each phone – or $1.7 million per month.
Political analysts described Brown’s executive order as largely symbolic but important in sending a message to voters as he pushes for extension of temporary tax increases that would raise about $11 billion in the next 18 months.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/12/3317750/browns-countdown-day-3-governor.html#ixzz1BzuToYNW
$1.7 million is not chump change. Symbolic, my ass. How many teachers’ jobs would be saved with that kind of money?
Now today I see another article in today’s paper about how some online retailers are skirting the collection of CA sales tax, or so CA says. The Board of Equalization estimates the total to be around $150 million a year. Amazon’s a big one that doesn’t collect CA sales tax.
So check this out. If a business is in WA and a customer from CA, or any where, for that matter, walks into that business and makes a purchase, the customer will be charged WA sales tax. And so they should. If it’s an online business, I don’t think that should matter. Every customer should be charged WA’s sales tax if they make a purchase from that company.
But CA Board of Equalization wants these online merchants to collect CA sales tax when a CA resident makes the purchase. How can they when the business isn’t located in CA? Just because it’s in cyberspace, BOE thinks it’s an opportunity to skim some scrilla from the transaction. There’s always a physical location. The person or the company behind the website has a physical location. Just because they don’t have a brick and mortar business, that shouldn’t matter. If the seller’s origin is in a different state, CA should NOT be entitled to ANY sales tax just because the customer is a CA resident. How fucking ass backwards can CA get? Sales tax should be based upon the same premise that income tax is based on. The federal government and the state of CA Franchise Tax Board don’t seem to have any problem figuring out state of domicile, but the BOE is all the way fucked up.
That article mentions that Schwarzenegger and some state legislatures blocked the online tax collection efforts in 2009 and 2010. I do recall that one to be a tad bit different. CA wanted to collect sales tax if the referring partying is a resident of CA. It was called the affiliate tax. Affiliates are online marketers who promote other people’s products or services and get paid a commissions. So if I’m an affiliate living in CA and I promote jack-off pills to some guy in WV and he buys them from the company located in FL, CA wanted that FL company to collect CA sales tax because I, the affiliate, live in CA. How fucking jacked up is that! Other states actually did that and now those companies will no longer allow affiliates living in those states to promote their products. Yup, those states got God-smacked.
Get the shovel. The BOE needs to be 6′ under.
The Elecrtonic Feedral Tax Pamyent Sytsem
Published October 18, 2010My inbox has ben getin naled hard evry day by the IRS. Seemz I fucked up my tax subimsion.
