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duddy duddy
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13 years ago
Engineers at Japan's Fukushima plant continue work on emptying highly radioactive water from one of the nuclear reactors. The latest tests show that radiation levels in the sea near the damaged facility have spiked. On Tuesday, Japan raised the level of nuclear alert at the plant to the maximum of seven, putting it on a par with the Chernobyl disaster. Recovery efforts came under threat as series of powerful aftershocks hit the area near the power station. It came a month after the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the country, leaving over 13 thousand people dead. Monitoring stations around the world have been picking up small amounts of radioactive particles spreading from Fukushima.

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duddy Author
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13 years ago
On last Tuesday, Japanese authorities raised nuclear alert level to its MAXIMUM: 7 ( similar to Chernobyl ) !!!
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13 years ago
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duddy Author
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13 years ago
It is not difficult to predict that environmentalists ( like in this video ) will exaggerate the possible damage resulting from the Fukushima accident while people, who sympathise with nuclear technology as source of energy, will try to und...erestimate it.

So, the truth must be somewhere in the middle.

Experts say that the radiation risk ( cancer, etc ) based on the available scientific data is -relatively low-. But the scientific data about the damaging effects of radiation is surprisingly MURKY and POOR. One even wonders why there is not more scientific research in this important area. Lack of funding ? Why big corporations and governments seem to intentionally prevent scientific investigation on this area ? What they don’t want us to find out ?

So, how much can we trust on this evaluation when there are big corporations interested on playing down the possible damaging effects of these types of accident ?
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duddy Author
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13 years ago
What is really mind-boggling is to witness many people assuring us from their pretentiously high ‘technological’ horses that the damaging effects of the radioactivity released in these types of accidents is ‘negligible’ –WHEN- actually the ...real experts in this area ( like radiobiologists for instance ) say that scientific data accumulated so far is INSUFFICIENT and TOO MURKY for providing reliable conclusions !!!!

If we have to err for lack of reliable data, let's err by increasing safety levels, not the opposite.
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