Japan still commited to nuclear power

When they can’t charge their iPods, they will demand nuclear power.

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A Glowing Report on Radiation

Quoting Ann Coulter:

“With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.”

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From an evolutionary standpoint, radiological hormesis makes perfect sense. Life evolved on this planet being constantly exposed to all manner of low-level background radiation. It’s even in the bananas eaten by both our ancestors and ourselves! It stands to reason that those evolutionary adaptations which caused individuals to BENEFIT from low-level background radiation would be more likely to survive the process of natural selection.

Let me break this down for the hopelessly ignorant hippie-dippie nature worshipping crowd -- low level radiation is a GIFT from Gaia!

Radioactive Fallout Reaches California! Panic NOW!

Quoting The Associated Press
(emphasis mine):

“Radioactive fallout from Japan's crippled nuclear plant has reached Southern California…

Initial readings are ‘about a billion times beneath levels that would be health threatening,’ the diplomat told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because the CTBTO does not make its findings public…

The diplomat's comments backed up expectations by IAEA officials and independent experts that radiation levels -- which are relatively low outside of the immediate vicinity of the Japanese plant -- would dissipate so strongly by the time it reached the U.S. coastline that it would pose no health risk whatsoever to residents.”

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Going Bananas Over Radiation

Quoting Anthony Watts
at WattsUpWithThat.com:

“Many people in the USA would be surprised to learn that they will get more radiation from eating a single banana than they would from Japan’s nuclear reactors.”

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Spent Fuel Rods at Plant Pose Big Risk?

The Wall Street Journal has published what amounts to a new wrinkle on the Japanese nuclear incident -- a wrinkle not seen in previous nuclear power plant incidents. I’m referring to the (apparently ill-conceived) storage of spent fuel rods.

First, let me note that:

1) A UCLA study has quantified the fact that -- other than the WSJ opinion page -- the WSJ is even MORE biased to the Left than the New York Times.

2) Proving the above point, a primary source for this story -- the Union of Concerned Scientists -- is more concerned with politics than science and is about as Far Left as they get. The Associated Press also had a hand in this and they are extremely biased to the Left.

All I am saying is take this reporting with a grain of salt (preferably NOT Potassium Iodide). Just like Three Mile Island and just like Chernobyl, it will take DECADES to quantify the scientific facts regarding this Japanese incident.

Click here to put both Three Mile Island and Chernobyl into proper perspective. My guess -- at this moment -- is that this Japanese incident may turn out to have been somewhat worse than Three Mile Island (where NOBODY was killed, injured or harmed in ANY way) and considerably less harmful than Chernobyl (where 30 people died).

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Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Problem Explained

Note that the current generation of nuclear power plants (Generation III reactors) do not require any electricity to maintain proper cooling in the reactor core.

It is also clear that this will NOT be another Chernobyl.

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The Nuclear Catastrophe of a Dental X-Ray

Quoting William Tucker
at The Wall Street Journal
(I inserted the links):

“Even while thousands of people are reported dead or missing, whole neighborhoods lie in ruins, and gas and oil fires rage out of control, press coverage of the Japanese earthquake has quickly settled on the troubles at two [now four] nuclear reactors as the center of the catastrophe….

There was a small release of radioactive steam at Three Mile Island in 1979, and there have also been a few releases at Fukushima Daiichi. These produce radiation at about the level of one dental X-ray in the immediate vicinity and quickly dissipate…

Researchers have spent 30 years trying to find health effects from the steam releases at Three Mile Island and have come up with nothing.”

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Every so-called “journalist” on the planet is shamelessly exploiting this equivalent of a dental X-Ray solely for the sake of the ratings race. Some are even exploiting the ratings race in a shameless attempt at political gain. ALL of this amounts to utterly despicable media malpractice!

Chernobyl produced a grand total of 30 deaths. According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data for 2009, that is the equivalent of LESS THAN 8 hours of carnage on our national highway system. If we allowed our wildest fantasies to run wild and imagined that the current mess produced FOUR Chernobyls, that would amount to LESS THAN two days of carnage on our national highway system. Of course, if you read the primary citation in this post, you know why that relatively innocuous outcome is not even remotely possible.

Nuclear Power Hysteria - Here we go again

In my previous post, I asked:

Is methane in drinking water naturally occurring?
Here, we are told the answer is - YES!
(Personally, I thought that was obvious.)

It is also asserted that some methane in drinking water
results from fracking (and, that can be remedied).

I think fracking will reduce naturally occurring methane.
(Just as offshore drilling has reduced natural seepage.)

John Stossel on fracking:

Just remember to balance the risks against the rewards.
In 2008, 37,261 Americans died on our highways.
That does NOT mean we should shut down our highways!
Drill, baby, DRILL!