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The Japan Times online had a nice way of putting it in their Report of long-range plutonium find tardy. The speed of updating the Japanese public on the potential health hazards has struck me previously in my blog. I found this amazing in this latest post:
“Plutonium won’t do harm unless it gets into people’s bodies. And from the amount detected, (that) possibility is very low. People shouldn’t be concerned about it,” said Furukawa.
Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years and plutonium-238 about 88 years. Plutonium-240 has a half-life of about 6,600 years.
Unlike cesium, which emits gamma rays, plutonium emits alpha rays, which can be stopped by skin or clothing but pose a greater risk to cellular material within the body.
Hmmm, the probability that something that will last hundreds or thousand of years will make it into the food chain, or be aerosolized is very low. In my experience – in the reinsurance industry – low probability events over long time horizons have a HIGH probability of happening. I can say with a high degree of certainty, it will happen, it will have health consequences for Japanese and potentially other populations and the government in this situation is playing down the long term health consequences for political and economic reasons.
The government may also want to look at the CURRENT health problems arising. The IBN online reports:
Hormonal and other irregularities were detected in the thyroid glands of 10 out of 130 children evacuated from Fukushima Prefecture, a Japanese NGO said today.
So the health problems are already presenting themselves and the Japanese government spokespeople persist with saying “people should not be concerned with it.”
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Don’t be concerned. We are liars. You should just go about your normal business. We lie constantly. We have no reason to mislead you. If our mouths are moving, we are lying. All this hype about radiation is just hysterics. Making up bullshit to prevent you from learning the truth is paramount. Soon, all this hoopla over a minor unforeseeable accident will blow over. If you knew the truth, you would revolt. Have a pleasant day, good citizens.
it’s the GOOD plutonium, like good cholesterol
Yes the GOOD plutonium only affects the 99% who don’t matter, and they can just go an die.
The 1% who do matter can afford to have the plutonium removed from the area around their personages, at the 99%’s expense.
They’re already mixing contaminated food stocks in with uncontaminated stocks and selling the result as a good thing because the radiation count for the mixed goods is lower than the count for the original contaminated stocks.
Complete denial of reality and complete absence of accountability for the parties actually responsible… sound familiar?
But the real fun will begin when they start burning contaminated debris in sites outside of the quarantine zone in order to dispose of it.
Sites such as those just outside Tokyo.
Fission fragment fugu cafes… the next Akhihabara trend?
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