Reply #18: Those points are upwind from Fukushima. Also, old atmospheric testing left massive radioisotope...

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contamination over northern Japan.

Rain run off routinely brings strontium 90 down from the mountains. Plutonium is less common.

Despite the hype, chances that this is going to be from the FNPP disaster are low. SPEEDI atmospheric monitors showed no major aerial radiation hitting these areas.

The blow after 3/11 went south. You can track the aerial rad patterns back years.

SPEEDI data live realtime

The news is not all good. A monitor at the plant is showing 31 microGreys/hour radiation. That's fatal with steady exposure.

There's nobody inside that structure. They're not crazy.

Nuclear engineers and managers are very careful people. I've worked with them. It's likely the safest commercial business in the world -- which is why no one suffered radiation poisoning after the tsunami. Two drownings and a heart attack were the toll.