Oolite Bulletins

Some nice/scary/awesome (*delete as appropriate) high-resolution photos of the damage at the Fukushima power plant taken by un-manned drone aircraft.

Scary

It's the stuff you can't see that's the scary bit.

It looks far too much like Chernobyl for comfort.

The fact that the 28th March saw radiation hit Scotland is scary enough for me. That's radiation from half way around the world now starting to affect the UK.

Maybe we're on course for the end of the world next December.

Selezen wrote:

It looks far too much like Chernobyl for comfort.

The fact that the 28th March saw radiation hit Scotland is scary enough for me. That's radiation from half way around the world now starting to affect the UK.

Maybe we're on course for the end of the world next December.

It's only a tiny little bit of radioactive iodene here ... not even enough to make a skinned knee glow in the dark. And the fact that some of it was detected at Dounreay does make me wonder if they're not pulling a "Quick! Let's blame some of this crap on someone else!" manoeuvre.

The good people at xkcd produced an interesting chart comparing various radioactive dosage levels: http://xkcd.com/radiation/

Disembodied wrote:

Selezen wrote:

It looks far too much like Chernobyl for comfort.

The fact that the 28th March saw radiation hit Scotland is scary enough for me. That's radiation from half way around the world now starting to affect the UK.

Maybe we're on course for the end of the world next December.

It's only a tiny little bit of radioactive iodene here ... not even enough to make a skinned knee glow in the dark. And the fact that some of it was detected at Dounreay does make me wonder if they're not pulling a "Quick! Let's blame some of this crap on someone else!" manoeuvre.

The good people at xkcd produced an interesting chart comparing various radioactive dosage levels: http://xkcd.com/radiation/

My wife's a radiographer by 1st qualification and used to work in Radiation Protection - and that's possibly the best contextual/visualisation chart I've seen on the subject. Brilliant.

The chart is good, but the video is more entertaining.

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Disembodied wrote:

Selezen wrote:

It looks far too much like Chernobyl for comfort.

The fact that the 28th March saw radiation hit Scotland is scary enough for me. That's radiation from half way around the world now starting to affect the UK.

Maybe we're on course for the end of the world next December.

It's only a tiny little bit of radioactive iodene here ... not even enough to make a skinned knee glow in the dark. And the fact that some of it was detected at Dounreay does make me wonder if they're not pulling a "Quick! Let's blame some of this crap on someone else!" manoeuvre.

The good people at xkcd produced an interesting chart comparing various radioactive dosage levels: http://xkcd.com/radiation/

My wife's a radiographer by 1st qualification and used to work in Radiation Protection - and that's possibly the best contextual/visualisation chart I've seen on the subject. Brilliant.

Yup have to agree. Plain English is what you need around a subject like this. You have to see it to understand it.