Japan's nuclear incident explained

[Hemlawk]

[TOMS1SS]

Poo flying in the sky huh? Japan is in total denial about how many people this going to end up killing, we have radiation here in Arizona for f*** sakes!

[Hemlawk]

It's not that bad. Chernobyl was 100x's worst, iodine was in the atmosphere then.

Funny vid tho

[Zabo]

"Chernobyl boy had diarrhea all over the classroom.."

So yeah.. Pripyat turned into a giant toilet. Tell us something we don't know. At least it generated some cool poo related levels in Modern Warfare.

[TOMS1SS]

Originally Posted by Hemlawk

It's not that bad. Chernobyl was 100x's worst, iodine was in the atmosphere then.

Funny vid tho

The estimates from Chernoybl were over a million by some counts from radiation related deaths. Might be Chernobyl level but its certainly is still going to kill plenty of people.

[Ivas]

Who knows what lurks in the hearts of men? Apart from the Shadow, I'd bet on the inscrutable Japanese. They prolly got it all figured by now.

[BackinBlackSS/RS]

Originally Posted by Fearer2010SS

The estimates from Chernoybl were over a million by some counts from radiation related deaths. Might be Chernobyl level but its certainly is still going to kill plenty of people.

A million??? That is just nonsense. That is just enviormentalist numbers made up to scare people away form nuclear energy. The facts are that 31 people died as an immediate result of the accident and fighting the resulting fire (28 from radiation injuries, two from non-radiation blast injuries and one due to a coronary thrombosis), and 134 were diagnosed with acute radiation syndrome. Of the latter, 14 people have since died, but their deaths were not necessarily attributable to radiation exposure. In addition, about 800 cases of thyroid cancers have been reported in children, of whom three have died. The total of 48 deaths, tragic as it is, has to be compared with the hundreds that die in other natural and man-caused disasters. The real fear from a meltdown is the fear in our minds.