Ifthere is a meltdown...

Ifthere is a meltdown...(boldizar.com)

3 points by tychonoff 15 years ago | 6 comments

miles 15 years ago |

That map is a hoax:

http://theorstrahyun.blogspot.com/2011/03/millions-of-americ...

http://ny-popculture-politics.blogspot.com/2011/03/japan-nuc...

http://solarimg.org/?p=716

stretchwithme 15 years ago | |

ah, ok. Thanks.

getsat 15 years ago |

There was a post on Reddit (can't find it now) that claimed this map had been debunked but didn't link to a source. Anyone have a source on the map or a debunking?

thirsteh 15 years ago |

The author should get over himself. Everything is not about the US, and that map is pure fear-mongering based on nothing resembling facts.

stretchwithme 15 years ago |

rads, milligrays, sieverts. how many different measures of radiation are there?

Does anyone have a good feel for how much risk we actually face in California from a total meltdown in Japan?

Thanks.

wtallis 15 years ago | |

None, unless the radioactive slag is magically aerosolized and propelled in to the upper atmosphere, then carried swiftly across the Pacific.. A meltdown on its own will only cause local damage.

Take a look at our discussion last year of the concept of a banana equivalent dose: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1429524

The extent of milk contamination as a result of the Three Mile Island meltdown was that a glass of milk was 75 times less radioactive than the average banana.

stretchwithme 15 years ago | | |

yeah, some of the other comments indicate this map is bunk.

Thanks. I'll watch out for those bananas. :-)