Fukushima's toxic legacy: Ignorance and fear
I can't do better than quote the title of the actual article from The Register. Oh, and its subtitle:
I see that the media are still pushing the "Oh, panic, there's radiation" scare stories. Yes, there is -- and if you eat a few bananas then you'll get about as much as you would get in a day 20 miles from any of the Japanese reactors. (I generally eat a banana a day or so.) As for the Americans buying up iodine in case some miniscule bit of the wrong isotope gets there (it can't, the stuff has a half-life of 8 days and it would take a lot longer to get across the Pacific)...
You want a dangerous power source? Try wind power. Or the millions killed by pollution from coal and oil. Or the ones killed in domestic gas 'accidents' and refinery fires.
Go on, read it. Or go to the sources and find the statistics.
Hysteria rages unchecked as minor incident winds down
I see that the media are still pushing the "Oh, panic, there's radiation" scare stories. Yes, there is -- and if you eat a few bananas then you'll get about as much as you would get in a day 20 miles from any of the Japanese reactors. (I generally eat a banana a day or so.) As for the Americans buying up iodine in case some miniscule bit of the wrong isotope gets there (it can't, the stuff has a half-life of 8 days and it would take a lot longer to get across the Pacific)...
You want a dangerous power source? Try wind power. Or the millions killed by pollution from coal and oil. Or the ones killed in domestic gas 'accidents' and refinery fires.
Go on, read it. Or go to the sources and find the statistics.