Now, I don't know why, but it really seems that the mainstream media... and pretty much EVERYONE has completely forgotten about the disaster at Fukushima.
I really had to keep up with it myself just to see what has been happening. Nothing on FOX or CNN... and sites like AP don't even have it as headline news, I have to go searching.
A 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale is... the highest and the worst you could possibly get when it comes to a nuclear disaster. In fact, Fukushima is now worse then Chernobyl, by a long shot. It has been going on for a month now and still is spewing radiation into the ocean and air...
And if you think that America is in no danger, unfortunately... there is radiation reaching us.
Why isn't this big news? I didn't see anything about it. Is Justin Beiber seriously more important? I am disappoint.
I love Japan... and was planning a trip there... but who cares about what I was going to do, the people there are going to get all sorts of diseases and cancer due to the radiation! And the worst part is that it is still spewing poisonous radiation.
I find it strange also that it's all just kinda forgotten about. Japan is top of the list of place I want to go to before I die. If I could make myself useful I'd go there now. The people are the coolest.
OMG so the cloud is in Europe! Soon it's going to reach New York. NO!!!! HELP NEW YORK!!!! It's where I live.
When I checked, the cloud was in Japan/USA, and moving east, and not in Europe at all.
So basically, let me know if you turn into zombies so I know if I should fly to Australia for a month or two. But if it's already reached North America and no one's even noticed/cared, I've got a feeling it's not very dangerous.
However, the amount of discharged radioactive materials is approximately 10 percent of the Chernobyl accident which was assessed on the same level.
It is also stated that the severity of the incident was assessed on the basis of the whole amalgamation of events as opposed to any one incident. Nonetheless, it remains to be seen what the effect will be.
I can't tell the purples apart, the most serious is the dark purple, but there's two different dark purples. I'm guessing since it's so far spread that the furthest are the less dangerous purple.
It's like kalb said. the problem is that the radiation got into air, water, food, ground, all kinds of stuff where radiation shouldn't be in. that's what makes it a 7. Only that, nothing else. Fourtunatly enough the radiation isn't in a high enough concentration right now to do all the really bad stuff.
