Fukushima "Death Cloud" + update
10 years ago
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Posted by: blitzkriegfox
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The video presented covers the legal action against the US 7th fleet for radiation exposure during relief efforts after the tsunami hit Japan. In this video radiation is presented as a boogyman to lay people. Is this a good example or not? Discuss. :3
Recently it has been widely covered in the media that ~70 members of the US 7th fleet are suing TEPCO (the company responsible for the Fukushima for THREE BILLION DOLLARS.
On paper they claim all sorts of cancer, however I can find no interview of anyone with cancer. Further the lawsuit doesnt say what the claims are for. What I do find is interview after interview of people describing non-quantifiable symptoms that are wholly inconsistent with radiation poisoning.
The thing that bugs me the most here is radiation is being sold as the 'invisible boogey man' that causes all the ills that you cannot otherwise explain.
Sure radiation can cause some serious problems, but then again so can asbestos. But this does not mean you can blame any unaccounted for maladies on asbestos or radiation!
In Africa when anything goes wrong (crop failures etc), there are those only too happy to blame witches. The only thing different here is the boogey man is radiation.
[EDIT by ]: This journal previously contained an offer for moderator positions. The person who posted this journal had no authority to do such a thing, or just about anything else he did. He's gone. Any offers he made for such positions are hereby voided.
The video presented covers the legal action against the US 7th fleet for radiation exposure during relief efforts after the tsunami hit Japan. In this video radiation is presented as a boogyman to lay people. Is this a good example or not? Discuss. :3
Recently it has been widely covered in the media that ~70 members of the US 7th fleet are suing TEPCO (the company responsible for the Fukushima for THREE BILLION DOLLARS.
On paper they claim all sorts of cancer, however I can find no interview of anyone with cancer. Further the lawsuit doesnt say what the claims are for. What I do find is interview after interview of people describing non-quantifiable symptoms that are wholly inconsistent with radiation poisoning.
The thing that bugs me the most here is radiation is being sold as the 'invisible boogey man' that causes all the ills that you cannot otherwise explain.
Sure radiation can cause some serious problems, but then again so can asbestos. But this does not mean you can blame any unaccounted for maladies on asbestos or radiation!
In Africa when anything goes wrong (crop failures etc), there are those only too happy to blame witches. The only thing different here is the boogey man is radiation.
Back in school we were doing small experiments with a radioactive source and a Geiger counter. The source was part of the lid of a glass jar. In my group were two other guys and two girls. One of use screwed upen the jar, took out the source and then acted as if he was "pouring" something from the jar that contained the source onto one of the girls in my group. SHE FREAKED OUT! We had been covering radioactivity for weeks at that point and she still thought that radiation is that weird magic substance that accumulates somewhere if you keep radioactive material in a jar! XD
It was both very sad and very hilarious.
That is an awesome chart btw, and I also hope the case gets thrown out for obvious reasons.
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