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Originally Posted by Dave Lane
If there had been a full meltdown of the core without any containment vessel breach it wouldn't have been any big deal at all. Meltdown is not the key word here. And the water released in the ocean is a meaningless amount.
As an aside, as Donger is always loath to do, radiation is with us everyday. There is a background amount of radiation from radon, watchfaces, the sun and hundreds of other sources. There is no escape and in background levels its generally harmless. The added radiation from Japan is below detectable levels here. There are trace amounts of Strontium 90 everywhere. This event added very little to the Strontium 90 on the surface of the earth.
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I loath to makes asides?
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I think the young people enjoy it when I "get down," verbally, don't you?
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