Sunday, May 8, 2011















Anonymous said...

If one was a cynic or paranoid, a reasonable conclusion would be that the Japanese and US governments have twisted arms to get this story off front pages. The New York Times apologizes to no one, yet it did to Japan over the amusing
'Snow White' cartoon. Then the Economist ran a glowing report on Tepco's handling of the Fukushima disaster. I'm not overly concerned about significant radiation reaching the US ( as long as nothing goes very wrong) but the US government should sure as hell be monitoring it and I suspect they are but using military assets to do so as those can be classified and put beyond the reach of the public!

Unknown said...

I wonder what Hillary Clinton talked about beyond closed doors when she made her recent visit.

Maybe something like, "if you agree not to call in all that US Treasury Bond money we owe you (in order to pay for the reconstruction). We will help make the pesky monitoring and the media coverage go away.."

Anonymous said...

Robbie001 sez:

This is why I've owned radiation detection devices for decades. I currently have two computer controlled Geiger counters that run 24/7 365 one monitors indoor the other outdoor ambient radiation levels. Unlike most Geiger counters mine are also sensitive to alpha and beta emissions. They also have the ability to quantify many radionuclide types using a decay curve program. I also have a small collection of portable Geiger counter and survey meters scintillation meters and pen dosimeters. I ended up with most of this stuff from an old consulting job.


If you think I'm paranoid then you obviously have never heard about the very true story of the David Hahn better known as the "Radioactive Boyscout". Who knows how many of him are running around here is his story:

And that idiot is still at it you'd think the government would have locked him up but no, he was allowed to contaminate himself and who knows who else.,2933,292111,00.html

Quarterly radiation monitoring just goes to show how little officials care about terrorist using dirty "bomb" tactics in a post - 9/11 world. If terrorist wanted to poison the US population it is nice to know we won't detect it for months. If they just contaminated food without a big explosion we wouldn't know until well after the fact. Just another perfect time for official to say, "who could have known".

Anonymous said...

Robbie001 sez:

This lack of detection goes hand and hand with TEPCO's refusal to use proper high range detection equipment 2 months after the initial accident. They want to be able to claim Fukushima never exceeded 1000 mSv when all the dust clears. Just like none of the workers will ever be exposed to more than 250 mSv even though TEPCO didn't have dosimeters for a large segment of the first responders.

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