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Re:Fukushima Radiation Breaks the Scale — No Idea by How Muc... by jameskilton on Saturday August 06, 2011 @12:58PM (#2854294)
There's no proof that anything is "under control" really. There's a 30km exclusion zone so there's not too much risk of radiation floating into populated areas (that we know of). so as I see it it's a matter of what information we're getting from TEPCO, which isn't a lot. There won't be any more explosions to send material into the air, and that's all we know.
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Re:Fukushima Radiation Breaks the Scale — No Idea by How Muc... by burgerbrain on Saturday August 06, 2011 @01:12PM (#2854329)
If there won't be more radiation getting into populated areas and there won't be any more explosions... then that pretty much sounds like you're saying it is under control. The 30km exclusion zone might not be a control that we are happy with for the long term, but it is a control.
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Re:Fukushima Radiation Breaks the Scale — No Idea by How Muc... by davidryal on Saturday August 06, 2011 @01:50PM (#2854441)
an exclusion zone is not a control; it's an acknowledgement of lack of control.
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Re:Fukushima Radiation Breaks the Scale — No Idea by How Muc... by burgerbrain on Saturday August 06, 2011 @02:01PM (#2854461)
Well it certainly seems to have put the situation under control...
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Re:Fukushima Radiation Breaks the Scale — No Idea by How Muc... by davidryal on Saturday August 06, 2011 @02:18PM (#2854504)
if by that you mean it has partially (and to what extent is unknown) isolated the thing we can't control at all and will be cleaning up for 30+ years (stated by nuclear expert in video fta), then yeah it's all fine. unless you can prove that all ill effects are contained within that exclusion zone, it's not control, it's the illusion of control to make yourself feel better.

so if they're finding radiation in rice crops hundreds of km away, is that still control?

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Re:Fukushima Radiation Breaks the Scale — No Idea by How Muc... by burgerbrain on Saturday August 06, 2011 @02:28PM (#2854543)
As I said, we may not be satisfied with the control, but isolation is in fact a type of control.
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