David Suzuki's Fukushima Warning

[G_j]

http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/4213061

David Suzuki's Fukushima Warning Is Dire And Scary (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post B.C.Nov 04, 2013

David Suzuki has issued a scary warning about Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, saying that if it falls in a future earthquake, it's "bye bye Japan" and the entire west coast of North America should be evacuated.

The "Nature of Things" host made the comments in a talk posted to YouTube after he joined Dr. David Schindler for "Letting in the Light," a symposium on water ecology held at the University of Alberta on Oct. 30 and 31.

An excerpt of the talk shows Suzuki outlining a frightening scenario that would result from the destruction of the nuclear plant.

"Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine," he said.



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[Fumesucker]

1. History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men

[G_j]

2. too true

& the metaphors are plentiful.

[KoKo]

3. Recommend.

[RobertEarl]

4. Fearmongering?

Had someone tell me the other day that it was all contained. Who was that? The elected leader of Japan, that's who.

Get on your knees and pray, we don't get Fukued again.

[Octafish]

5. The guy's only a PhD geneticist. What would he know?

Before March 11, 2011, he never had to think about three out-of-control nuclear reactors in full-blown meltdown somewhere in the rubble of three blasted-out and ruined containment structures, wherein are housed damaged spent fuel pools - some containing tons of plutonium -- exposed to the elements and who knows what else draining hundreds of tons of radioactive waste water directly into the Pacific and nobody has adequately reported how much of what and to where else it headed? Other than that, it's really not that bad I've been told repeatedly on DU by a few of the same types who hate me mentioning the BFEE, interestingly enough.



"Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine," he said.

[G_j]

8. yes, I feel so relieved now that I've been assured

that there nothing to worry about.

[Octafish]

9. A Public Service Announcement on Plutonium

DOE-STD-1128-98

Guide of Good Practices for Occupational Radiological Protection in Plutonium Facilities

EXCERPT...

4.2.3 Characteristics of Plutonium Contamination

There are few characteristics of plutonium contamination that are unique. Plutonium
contamination may be in many physical and chemical forms. (See Section 2.0 for the many potential sources of plutonium contamination from combustion products of a plutonium fire to radiolytic products from long-term storage.) [font color="purple"]The one characteristic that many believe is unique to plutonium is its ability to migrate with no apparent motive force. Whether from alpha recoil or some other mechanism, plutonium contamination, if not contained or removed, will spread relatively rapidly throughout an area. [/font color]

UPDATED SOURCE (PDF file format): http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/10/f3/DOE-STD-1128-2013.pdf

Something else that gets near-zero in the way of coverage in the great democratic institutions of our free homeland:

Fukushima, Plutonium, CIA, and the BFEE: Deep Doo-Doo Four Ways to Doomsday

Even includes John J. McCloy laughing at Skull and Bones.

[G_j]

10. yep

plutonium migrates easily. My patents both worked at Hanford in the old days. Both died of lung cancer years layer.

[HereSince1628]

6. Move on, move on, nothing to notice here...

after all, we are talking about odorless, tasteless, invisible, silent, untouchable emissions from deadly but completely insensible atomic decompositions.

[quinnox]

7. K&R. "There are some things where there should be no risk tolerance"

Well said!

Man's arrogance will bite him in the ass every time. "Nothing could possibly go wrong!" Uh huh.