Japan crisis - the worlds economic outlook?

chewmylegoff

Really2 wrote: »

LOL

The gestation period of a human is 9 month. You are pretty much fully formed before three months.
So even if it was true it is not possible the extra head would be from the radiation but a natural abnormality.

there is simply no way that being exposed to radiation would cause a foetus to grow an extra head.

someone has been watching too much tv i think. or youtube consipiracy theories.

Really2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

there is simply no way that being exposed to radiation would cause a foetus to grow an extra head.

someone has been watching too much tv i think. or youtube consipiracy theories.

Indeed, likely effects are going to be increased cancers rather than abnormality's
But here is some evidence of crustacean and reptile abnormality's.

chewmylegoff

Really2 wrote: »

Indeed, likely effects are going to be increased cancers rather than abnormality's
But here is some evidence of crustacean and reptile abnormality's.

well it's not that there won't be abnormalities, it's just that they won't be of the "wow i've got a new head" or "wow i glow blue like dr manhattan" rather "oh dear my arm is missing".

Poshbird

Solar is the way to go, the nuke crisis in Japan has made many countries think about getting rid of nuclear power altogether.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9NNPREO2.htm
Swiss lawmakers approved a proposal Wednesday to phase out the use of nuclear power, a move spurred by election-year politics and growing skepticism over the use of atomic energy

Nuclear is old technology more trouble than its worth, we need to move into the 21st cen.

Solar power is the future. All the dessert regions around the equator should be made into Billions of acres of solar farms. As the Earth turns the ones in daylight can provide countries that do away with nuclear.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Any chance of you lot giving it a rest?

Just a thought.

JonnyBravo

Hi Frank,
something tells me you might know, but have you heard peoples legs have been melting?

1984ReturnsForReal_2

TOKYO, June 16 (Reuters) - Japan plans to ask pregnant women and children to move away from radiation "hotspots" that were found far away from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the government said on Thursday, reflecting new anxieties about the spread of radioactivity.
The government will not, however, evacuate entire towns, but rather homes where residents could be exposed to more than 20 millisieverts of radiation per year. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters.
Twenty millisieverts is the annual radiation limit the government has set for school children in Fukushima, where workers at the Daiichi plant 240 km (150 miles) from Tokyo are battling to bring under control the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
Following the earthquake and tsunami in March that resulted in the nuclear disaster the government has set up a forced evacuation zone within a 20 km (12 mile) radius of the plant after deciding that radiation levels there were too high for human habitation.
But the government has been confronted with far-flung, isolated hotspots of contamination outside the 20 km radius with relatively high levels of radiation.
Edano said data gathered from certain parts of Minami Soma city, about 20 km from Daiichi, and Date city, about 50 km from the nuclear plant, are currently being assessed and that the government would recommend evacuation on a household basis.
He also said that those wanting to evacuate, including adults and those who were not pregnant, would receive firm government support.
"We will respond flexibly and lift evacuation recommendations if radiation levels decline," Edano said.

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And if you want to read this one..... Its long but it will give you some info previously not mentioned.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/06/201161664828302638.html

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Japan's green tea fields sway in the early summer winds, the picture of bucolic beauty. But beneath these peaceful rows of young green buds, ready for the second harvest of the year, a national crisis is brewing. Earlier this month, Japan's government banned green tea from parts of three prefectures: Tochigi, Chiba and Kanagawa; and banned tea from all of a fourth prefecture, Ibaraki.
The authorities had detected levels of radioactive cesium in tea leaves above the legal limit of 500 becquerels per kilogram.
Now the discovery of radiation in fields further south in Shizuoka, Japan, some 400 kilometers away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, threatens the most robust tea-producing region in Japan.

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ninky_2

update http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2011/Fukushima_cold_shutdown

Clean up complications

Decontamination work from the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years could extend to a 2,400sq km zone across the four worst affected Japanese prefectures, according to the environment ministry report, the first official assessment.

Experts have advised the government that about 5cm of topsoil would have to be excavated to make the land safe. The laborious decontamination process will also involve removing leaves and dirt from woodland, which covers 60-70 percent of the affected area.

More than 80,000 people have been evacuated from a 20 kilometre radius around the crippled nuclear plant and the most heavily irradiated towns and villages nearby. But radioactivity in cities up to 60 kilometres from the plant has exerted serious strain on local life.

Radioactive hotspots in some highly populated areas exceed those found in Chernobyl, scene of the 1986 nuclear disaster. The environment ministry is focusing its decontamination on areas where radiation exposure is more than 5 millisieverts a year, roughly double UN estimates for safe background radiation.

Minister for the environment Goshi Hosono faces fierce resistance from local officials in Fukushima to a tentative plan to temporarily store the radioactive waste in the prefecture while the government looks for a permanent home for it, The Irish Times reported.

A budget of $2.9 billion has already been allocated for the clean-up, but the environment ministry has asked for another $5.8 billion for this fiscal year alone, according to Kyodo News.

FTBFun

47thElement wrote: »

Solar is the way forward. You just need huge areas of solar farms and yes this will require a lot of silver.

You should have just started with this bit, really.