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Japan is getting away with it because there is no radioactive rain impacting other countries.
by yxhuvud 13y ago
Japan is getting away with it because there is no radioactive rain impacting other countries.
- hkmurakami 13y agoI guess it helps that the winds blow from west to east (i.e. straight into the ocean where the next country is ~8000 miles away)
- 205guy 13y ago3800 miles and the next country is ... USA (Hawaii). However, both winds and water currents tend to go north of Hawaii, so it is more like 5200 miles on the great circle to California.
- reirob 13y agoThis might be, but at the same time the problem is not resolved and contained as it was in Chernobyl. "We have three 100-ton melted fuel blobs underground, but where exactly they are located, no one knows. Whatever 'barriers' TEPCO has put in place so far have failed. Efforts to decontaminate radioactive water have failed. Robots have failed. Camera equipment and temperature gauges...failed. Decontamination of surrounding cities has failed. " [..] "If and when the corium reaches the Tokyo aquifer, serious and expedient discussions will have to take place about evacuating 40 million people" Considering these future threats have not been resolved in any way I must say I respect for Soviet Unions reaction in Chernobyl case. EDIT: Quotes taken from article linked in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6232104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6232104