We are told not to worry. TEPCO and General Electric scientists will not be straightforward with the Japanese public, causing US reporters to flee the country. Clearly, there have been dangerous releases of radioactive material. The situation can hardly be called contained or safe. The US ship Ronald Reagan was already accidentally irradiated. Fifty employees are valiantly sacrificing themselves -- almost guaranteeing that they will develop cancer they would not otherwise develop -- by staying on and fighting the Fukushima Daiichi plants multiple core cooling failures.
Any mention of "meltdown" by scientists immediately impacts the stock market and has inadvertently skyrocketed the value of the yen, the Japanese monetary unit, also hampering reconstruction efforts. While we will not be well informed about the danger to avoid widespread panic, it was disclosed today that slight but unusual levels of radiation "consistent with emissions in Japan" were detected in the California state capital. Iodine tablets, which are now sold out, are a dangerous reaction to the danger when staying in and reducing exposure to the atmosphere would be less dangerous to thyroids and more useful in protecting the health of all organs and tissues susceptible to atomic fission and fusion byproducts.
- Radiation from Japan found in California
A “miniscule” amount of radiation that probably came from damaged nuclear reactors in Japan was picked up at a California monitoring station yesterday, the U.S. government said. The level of radiation registered in Sacramento ... “poses no concern,” the U.S. EPA and Energy Dept. said in a joint statement. A similar level of the radioactive isotope xenon-133 was detected in Washington state on March 16 and 17, according to the agencies. It was “consistent with a release from the Fukushima reactors in Northern Japan,” according to the statement.
