Hey, it's just a nuclear reactor "fart". Japan will get over it. And as far as most of the rest of the world is concerned, they don't give a damn. If the cost of energy goes down 2%, it is of far more concern to the average person.

No one in the press talks about the amount of Plutonium that has been ejected from Fukushima.

If they told people how much Pu was involved, and that the fatal dose was inhaling ~0.1 microgramme of Pu ... then people would really start to panic.

There is nothing like destroying your own set of genetic operating instructions, and having huge increases in defective and mentally retarded children - as there are enough already from conventional exposures to materials. Parents really start to freak out over retarded children due to the long term assistance required - but are less concerned about jelly babies.

Just look at Cheliabinsk ... and all the 'special needs' schools.

The article says "So far no one can tell the exact number of people who received dangerous doses of radiation or draw a prediction of how many of them will be affected by cancer in the long-run."

.. .to which there are two counter arguments:

1. "electron paramagnetic resonance" EPR can be used to determine large exposures to external radiation in liquidators. The test is done on tooth enamel samples, and is valid for living biopsies or post-mortem studies. Every tooth is a permanent dosimeter implant, but only for high doses of external irradiation.

2. The article does not distinguish between external and internal emitters. Major medical expert groups in Australia are now listening closely to Dr Helen Caldicott, who strongly reinforces the clinical and epidemiological work of Bandazhevsky, Yablokov, Nesterenko and other investigators following the Chernobyl explosion/meltdown/f ire. Medical doctors are finally waking up to the outright lies of the nuclear shills. OTOH, medical diagnostic tests are still _the_ major source of external ionizing radiation, so the doctors may be just seeking to "share the blame" for the cancer and cardiovascular epidemics. The evidence for internal emitters doing great harm is now on a par with the evidence for AGW. Independent clinical and epidemiological studies in Japan are vital: the IAEA-WHO cosy relationship must be smashed this time.

This article shows precisely why we have the problem with the nuclear technology. &nb sp; For one, the Government has always the upper hand in deciding what is the "truth".   All other data will be questioned.  Other governments around the world have vested interests in NOT finding out what real dangers are.  North America has clearly received the carcinogenic matter in many forms, not just Caesium.  Yet, measurements, if any, are secret.  Media, including this article, FOREVER cannot figure out the difference bettween the RADIATION and the NUCLEAR PARTICLE FALLOUT.     Thus, the dangers of "radiation" is always linked with the possible future deaths from cancer.   However, the millions that will die from cancer and other deseases related to the damage to human genes is THOUSANDS TIMES HIGHER FROM THE FALLOUT THEN RADIATION. &nbs p; The particles that are released into athosphere and the water --- they are not going to go away.  They CANNOT go away.  They will, for hundreds of thousands of years, become part of our lifecycle on earth, damaging whatever they come into contract.  Be that a plankton in the ocean, or a fish that ate the plankton, or a human that ate the fish --- the particle will again return to the earth as the human dies from cancer. And there, it will find another vehicle, a warm, a plant, water --- to make it to another victim's DNA.  What we have learned is that THERE IS NO ACCOUNTABILITY.  ; Private industry has taken this technology like a toy --- not a serious danger to earth --- and is not called accountable by anyone.   NO ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ANYTHING ANYWHERE is the motto of our time.

Is that not the perfect reagon to create liveforms that can stay under this condition yellifish palntons. Madame Curie was not so stupid pass this chance self when health is going down. Is that not the perfekt area to let grown or enviroment or used it. When rice or what ever the farmer plants around faster grown wher is the problem with biofuel? And when only an chance exist to made where the alpha run made current by panels or so why not where are the freaks?