Re:Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an...
by VLM on Monday August 05, 2013 @02:17PM
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One interesting problem with "stuff" near Japan is according to western coverage, the only thing that happened was a nuclear accident.
However what actually happened was a huge disaster. So right off the coast lets say around 100K cars were destroyed, and the average car has a twenty gallons of liq petrochems like gasoline, used motor oil, and all the various hydraulic and coolant fluids... all floating in coastal water now.
Its like a live retro experiment of what if junkyards and the like were totally unregulated for awhile. There was a time when you'd just dump that stuff in a river instead of proper disposal and recycling, and we've got an interesting live example of what happens if we try it again...
So is the two headed fish because of modest radio contamination, or because it grew up next to a puddle of used motor oil, or the warehouse full of insecticide that washed into the ocean, or...
However what actually happened was a huge disaster. So right off the coast lets say around 100K cars were destroyed, and the average car has a twenty gallons of liq petrochems like gasoline, used motor oil, and all the various hydraulic and coolant fluids... all floating in coastal water now.
Its like a live retro experiment of what if junkyards and the like were totally unregulated for awhile. There was a time when you'd just dump that stuff in a river instead of proper disposal and recycling, and we've got an interesting live example of what happens if we try it again...
So is the two headed fish because of modest radio contamination, or because it grew up next to a puddle of used motor oil, or the warehouse full of insecticide that washed into the ocean, or...