TEPCO risks all at Fukushima

[kristopher]

15. What's wrong? Aside from the point that you don't understand the meaning of 'values'?

Ok, we'll do it your way.

Is not Tokyo 148 miles from Fukushima?
The center of Toyko is, but the Tokyo metropolitan area and its 12 million people sits in the middle of the Kanto Plain, which is home to 42,607,376 people.

Does not radiation travel in a straight line?
Yes.

Would not the earth itself shield locations beyond the horizon from radiation?
No. Not when the contaminated smoke and particulates are carried and deposited "beyond the horizon".

Would not any intervening mountains shield the radiation?
No.

Does not radiation obey the square root law? Twice the distance, equals one forth the radiation?
Yes

Does not the wind and ocean currents flow away from Fukushima and the rest of Japan?
Not always by any means. Just like nearly every other place the winds are variable and often come out of the N, NNE, NE, ENE, and E. Just because they got lucky once is certainly no guarantee they would be again.

Those are facts.
Since fire and smoke are the anticipated dispersal mechanisms for contaminated particulate pollution, that would make most of what you wrote and the entire point you are striving for inaccurate, wouldn't you say?

It is also a fact that nuclear is safer than coal, or any other fossil fuel, given the number of people killed by the various technologies. Even safer than hydro. That's another fact. BTY, hydro is hell on the environment because of the needed dams.

Safer when it is operating properly. But we aren't dealing with nuclear operating properly, are we?