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[DOOM] Japan Meltdown Could Kill 920 Million People!!!

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  1. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum
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    Ahhhh!

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    Fukushima Could Kill 920 Million People


    Posted by Jacob Freeze on @ 2:05 pm
    Article printed from speakeasy: http://blogs.alternet.org/jacobfreeze
    URL to article: http://blogs.alternet.org/jacobfreeze/2011/06/01/fukushima-could-kill-920-million-people/



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    Just in case you ever wonder about the worst-case scenario at Fukushima…
    If all the plutonium at Fukushima burns and disperses into the atmosphere, a LOW ESTIMATE of the death-toll adds up to about 920,000,000 people, and that’s applying the nuclear industry’s own “myth-busting” refutation of Ralph Nader’s “alarmist” arithmetic.
    A commonly cited quote by Ralph Nader, states that a pound of plutonium dust spread into the atmosphere would be enough to kill 8 billion people. However, the math shows that one pound of plutonium could kill no more than 2 million people by inhalation. This makes the toxicity of plutonium roughly equivalent with that of nerve gas.
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    And isn’t that soothing!
    Plutonium is almost the same as oatmeal!
    It’s only as toxic as nerve gas!
    But there’s a heck of a lot of that plutonium-oatmeal stored at Fukushima!
    The 1,458 tons of plutonium held as “Unirradiated new fuel at reactor sites etc.” includes 210 kg at Fukushima I-3 (TEPCO).
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    210 kilograms is about 460 pounds, and even if we accept the low-ball estimate of 2,000,000 fatalities per pound, that’s still an awful lot of people!
    460 X 2000000 = 920,000,000 people.
     
    #1 Xerobull, Jun 2, 2011
  2. Pull_Up_3

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    mind=blown

    we gonna die
     
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    As long as the J-Lo tape comes first.
     
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  4. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum
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    lol....I just can't rep you enough.
     
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  5. VanityHalfBlack

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    Damn talk about total destruction.... In not time Japan will look like Feudal Japan and the rise of the Samurai once again...

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    Been there, done that

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    I'm more worried about all of the radioactive water washed out to sea leading to this.

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    I drink to that!!!

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  9. RC Cola

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    I was doing some reading on one of the sources they quoted:
    http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter13.html
    So 10,000 x 2000000 = 20,000,000,000 people (with the "lowball" estimate).

    I guess that means:
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    (has this meme reached CF? haven't really noticed)

    I cut out the part of the quote that gave a more accurate fatality estimate. If anyone is actually curious, the 1lb = 2,000,000 fatalities fact is regarding inhaled plutonium, not just 1lb of dust in the air...which would be difficult to do anyway (apparently they had to get creative to get animals to inhale plutonium in order to study its effects). Pretty interesting read actually.
     
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  10. Two Sandwiches

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    Meh, China will just suck it all up before it gets here.


    DEMOCRACY WINS!!!
     
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  11. Joshfast

    Joshfast "We're all gonna die" - Billy Sole
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    I'm in the Heights, should I evacuate?
     
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  12. Xerobull

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    Yep. Official FEMA Evac plan:

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