Jet streams could carry radioactivity from Japan to the US

ards the US.

Or it could stay there until it reach Europe. You don't call it streams for no reason. Don't worry, radiation readings will be available all over the web.

the US.

I hear that these particular air flows are expected to drop their "load" specifically on the Netherlands ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Is that due to Global Warming?

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FWIW--

-dai-ichi-plant-after-e/ "Elevated levels of radiation were detected well outside the 20-mile (30-kilometer) emergency area around the plants. In Ibaraki prefecture, just south of Fukushima, officials said radiation levels were about 300 times normal levels by late morning. It would take three years of constant exposure to these higher levels to raise a person's risk of cancer."

-- Cheers, James Arthur

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It'd be nice if we could educate the public about nuclear radiation. Everyone starts running around waving their hands as soon as radiation is mentioned.

I like this,

George H.

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We have our San Onofre (Fukushima twin) in S. Calif, within earthquake zone and right on the water. But we only die once.

No, that can't and won't happen...

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Oh dear. It's all very complicated, but AIUI this means the jetstream's going to dump bananas on the US.

No wonder they call it "fradiation"--bananas with no milk, that's scary! :-)

-- Cheers, James Arthur

Yes, but you're safer because causality is reversed in California. In California a pressure-vessel leak would unleash a sue-nami, whereas the opposite applies everywhere else, and with less certainty.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

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And I live directly down prevailing winds from SONGS. (92064)

Let's see which is quicker - the jet stream cesium dose, or the delivery of the KI tablets I ordered already online.

Within a few weeks after the Chernobyl fire, detectable radiation increments were detected all the way around that Earth. Most of that was trivial, and dissipated quickly. However, a Chernobyl-sized control area impressed on Honshu would include about half the island or more, depending on wind speed and direction.

On a sunny day (Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:56:13 -0700 (PDT)) it happened snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote in :

Be aware that politics now controls what is 'measured' and what is 'dangerous'. We have seen that with Tjernobyl here. If you take your geiger counter to thr supermarket people will freak out, and maybe you get arrested of thrown out.

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Say, Does anyone know why the reactor stays hot after the control rods have been pulled out. Is it the 'secondary' radiation from all the other stuff in the reactor or maybe spontaneous fission of the Uranium? Something else? Too many banana's?

George H.

These are the go-to guys. In brief, many of the fission products are themselves unstable (on time scales from too short to measure up through too long to care) and release energy when they decay, long after the core itself has been shutdown.

wonder how it all compares to this:

-Lasse

Cool, gives me an idea for a practical joke.

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First, Australia, and now Japan?

"Carry" "radioactivity?" Can you be any more specific?

Is Godzilla going to show up in Seattle, is that how that works?

Thanks, Rich

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Which isn't what happened, in case you'd care to check the actual facts.

Thanks, Rich