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…
True Questions From Stupid People
Published January 11, 2011
These are actual questions asked by morons on one of those popular Question and Answer sites.
- How do I make a old car door close like a new car door?
- If you buy an old beat up car can you just take it to lets say jiffy lube and they’ll fix it?
- What is the probability of a tornado hitting a junk yard and creating a new car?
- How would you describe the sound of an old beefy car at idle speed?
- Why would a 12 year old car be in an auction?
- Does a new paint job on a 17 year old car look silly?
- Is it healthy to put old car oil in my hair?
- Did you know when you donate your car, the gov’t legally takes over your computer, for it’s own purposes?
- Is it possible to plop the body of an old car say, from the 1940s onto a 2010 Camaro frame + drivetrain?
- How old were you when you wrecked your first car?
Gotta love #10, like it’s a right of passage or something? LMAO!
If you can answer any of these questions, please leave a comment. Feel free to run with it. =)
How To Do Your Own Liposuction Procedure
Published August 26, 2010Now don’t forget, it’s not necessary to sterilize the card table chair. That’s overkill. It also helps if you work in a hospital or clinic so you can steal the supplies you’ll be needing to do this.
